JUMANJI: The Curse Returns, Based On The Original Movie, Is Heading To Switch

Looks honestly like a mobile game. And not a fun one.

One to avoid….much like the dreadful modern Jumanji movies.

....Why do the character models look like something out of a nightmare?

@Lord The first modern one was fine but the second one was literally just "hahaha old people can't play games" jokes repeatedly

It’d be worth it if Van Pelt materialized in real life.

Play a lot of board games with friends but with the pandemic we've had to move online and that has limited the selection. Great to see more board games like this for online play.

Also just going to pop in that I love the new Jumanji movies. They perfectly fill that niche of action-adventure movies that don't take themselves too seriously that we sorely need more of. [Brendan Fraser] Mummy-like needs to be a genre.

(smoldering intensity)

@sanderev for that price you couldn't expect a triple A game!

No Robin Williams, The Rock, Jack Black, or the girl that play Mary-Jane Watson in the first Spider-Man movie not worth getting.

Hey look, a Sony game on Switch.

Too bad it looks awful.

Does anyone know if this is an original story or an adaption of the cinematic work or comic series?

I'd rather play Jumanji 2. A board game transformed into video game, in a video game.

You sure you don't mean Wii?

So it's just turn-based battles, the least-fun part of any RPG without any of the parts like dungeon-exploration or puzzles. Gotcha.

Give the license to right developer & publisher, Jumanji has the potential to be a good game. It could be solid open-world adventure game akin to Rise of the Tomb Raider, or a more linear experience like Uncharted. Not every licensed game has to be some poorly developed multiplayer game...in fact, most of the better games are not which includes Batman, Spider-Man, Riddick, Ghostbusters: The Vide Game, Alien: Isolation and the list goes on. Walking Dead had two multiplayer titles that flopped with one cancelled for consoles while the Telltale game still continues to sell...I would take Telltale's Jumanji over what was already released despite not exactly I would want from a Jumanji game. Jumanji can be done right if publishers quit following multiplayer trends. Just make a solid action-adventure game based on recent films...they could make even a sequel or prequel game as oppose following the films directly much like Ghostbusters did.

@Chlocean No, the battles are the best part of any RPG, even turn-based ones! They only get boring if there's too much grinding. Exploration isn't that great in comparison, while puzzles in RPGs can be anywhere from a decent change of pace to a complete slog and aren't even needed in the good majority of them.

So is there ever going to be a game based on the original children's picture book (from 1981) that inspired the first movie?

It's ironic that the game is only coming to Nintendo Switch and Steam when Jumanji was made by TriStar Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony.
Then again, the Switch and Xbox are also getting a Demon Slayer game from Aniplex, another subsidiary of Sony.

@BulbasaurusRex It's really a matter of personal taste. I find turn based battles to be the worst part of the RPG experience and honestly no amount of differing opinions from other people is gonna make me flip that decision.

And this is not to say I haven't enjoyed RPGs, for their world building and story, and this is not to say the turn based battle system is worthless because some people enjoy it or else it wouldn't still be around.
I loved Bravely Default and the battle system was expertly crafted, but it still was my least favorite part of the game below the art, the beautiful vistas, plot and world-building.

@Chlocean Then you're probably better off just watching Let's Plays of turn-based RPGs rather than actually playing them yourself. They tend to cut out a good portion of the battles (save for the important ones) and customization/modifications in those videos for RPGs. Of course, there are also a number of RPGs that aren't turn-based that you may enjoy more.

Personally, I hate the "Bravely Default" combat and class systems, and the traveling and vague story aren't any better from what I was able to see in the demo. Sure, it looks pretty, but that's no reason to play an otherwise boring game.

@BulbasaurusRex Nah, I still want to play the games and I often enjoy the turn based battles but I enjoy them much less than the other parts of the game. That's all I'm saying.

Glad they are making a board game of this, its what I have wanted to see for a while! Doesnt look great though, but hopefully better then the last Jumanji game.