All You Need Is Help Review: A Hilarious Co-Op Puzzle Game Full of Silliness
A cozy, colourful 2-4 player puzzle game with cute kawaii characters and a fun co-op gameplay good for a giggle
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation, Xbox Gamepass
Genre: Puzzle, 2 Player, 4 Player
Developer: Q Games Ltd
Publisher: Q Games Ltd
How Cozy? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Very Cozy
Game Verdict: ⭐⭐⭐ /5
Team up and think together in this charming co-op puzzle game where every move matters. In All You Need Is Help, you and your friends play as adorable animal cubes who must work side by side, literally, to solve clever challenges. Whether you're playing on the sofa or online, it's all about collaboration, communication, and a whole lot of wholesome fun.
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Story
The game introduces it’s characters as 4 different coloured cubes, and a little home for each cube. Each of the homes has a wardrobe for accessories you can collect, you can change your animal face on the cube, and decorate with items you win from the gacha with the coins you collect in the puzzles. There’s no major story here, but as a multiplayer puzzle game it doesn’t really need one, a game like this just needs a satisfying gameplay and cute aesthetics for me.
Gameplay
There’s a few different ways to play All You Need is Help, dependant on the number of players you have. There always has to be 4 players, so if you’re playing solo, you can ring the bell in your camp to play with online players, you can add a friend code and play with friends online, or you can play in couch co-op. I played this on the Xbox with my partner, and you use the left stick and buttons for one character and right stick and buttons for your second character. This in itself is a fun brain puzzle as you need to control 2 characters at the same time, and honestly we we’re in fits of giggles before we’d even got started on the puzzles trying to control the cubes. Once in the puzzles, you can’t rotate the shapes, you must push yourself against each other to rotate your cubes, which again, had us in stitches. The puzzles aren’t anything too challenging, but working together to solve them with fun controls was good fun.
Graphics and Visuals
The game is very cute and colourful with a kawaii design for the different animals and setting. You can customise your cubes with accessories you collect or changing your animal type, and you can decorate your little pens with items you collect along the puzzles. Visually I thought the game looked adorable, and it was a fun contrast to the slightly chaotic gameplay. The dialogue for each character was a bit irritating and repetitive, but the music is cute and overall I really enjoyed the look and feel of the game.
Longevity
There’s over a 160 different levels you can play, which gives plenty of longevity for the game if you enjoy it. Some levels are better than others, and if you’re playing online there’s obviously no guarentee you’ll be playing with other players who want to win rather than disrupt, but in couch co-op, it’s good fun to be debating with each other on the best tactics. You can unlock items to decorate and customise, but they’re a little limiting, I wouldn’t be coming back to play for this alone. But I’d happily play a half an hour here and there in couch co-op.
Conclusion
Overall, All You Need is Help is a fun puzzle game, I really enjoyed it’s cute kawaii design and I had a good giggle with my partner playing this. The controls are a fun brain puzzle trying to control 2 cubes at the same time, and the puzzles although not too challenging are fun to complete. The dialogue is repetitive and irritating, and while I enjoy the attempt to add extra parts to the game like customisation and decorations for your pen, they’re not things that would pull me back to play more, and just felt a little unnecessary. But if you’re looking for a fun 2-4 player puzzle game where you’ll debate tactics and have a laugh, it’s definitely worth a go!
