Welcome to our review of Jumanji: Wild Adventures, a game on Nintendo Switch that seems like it was not even intended to run properly.

Drop into the dangerous game world of Jumanji and start a thrilling adventure, as you search for the stolen jewel, The Jaguar’s Eye, and a way home! Choose your avatar from heroes Smolder Bravestone, Ruby Roundhouse, Mouse Finbar, and Shelly Oberon, and explore uncharted territories home to fierce predators, warring factions and devious traps that can sweep you off your feet.

Survive the jungle to reach new zones including forgotten villages, icy mountains, dark caves, and fetid swamps. And always be ready for new threats, because the Jumanji drums could strike at any moment! As you level up your heroes through experience and purchase upgrades with your hard-earned loot, you’ll gain the strength to take on bosses like the cunning Smuggler and vicious Siberian Tiger. You may even discover some of Jumanji’s most secret rooms and lost treasures.

The quest to recover the Jewel of Jumanji has evolved. If you want to get home, go big with adventure! Quest alone or in local multiplayer for up to four explorers.

Jumanji: Wild Adventures does not run very smoothly on Nintendo Switch though. You often feel like it needed a lot more power and it is easily noticeable just about everywhere in the game. From clunky moves to more often than not, weird fights. As a platformer, this needs to be addressed as a big problem as I can not in all honesty say this runs well. You notice it in so many things and sadly, this is one of those occasions that you just nod and say, yep, another movie turned game fiasco.

I don’t even use that term lightly, it is truly not a good game and especially on the big screen, it becomes clear how under par it really runs. For the platforming, you at times need to do jumps or let hippos bounce you into the air, hoping you land on a platform, which is more often than not more a matter of luck as the controls seemingly disagree with anything other games have ever taught you about landing. I don’t want to sound too harsh, but it is just more an issue of not working properly rather than something you would have fun with.

Usually, movies turned games, it is a mixed bag, ranging from very good occasionally to intense pain. I would situate this one somewhere in between bad and painfuly bad. It is what it is, this game just does not seem finished at times. As much as I love the real live movies, from the old one back in the days to the newer ones with Kevin Hart and the Rock, this game just does nothing for me. It is a semi decent platformer when the mechanics don’t disagree with you and storywise, it is not that…

In conclusion, Jumanji: Wild Adventures is not a fun game on Nintendo Switch.

4/10

Tested on Nintendo Switch