''The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Grand Adventure'' is a

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video game based on ''

The Peanuts Movie ''The Peanuts Movie'' (known in some countries as ''Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie'') is a 2015 American animated comedy film based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip ''Peanuts'', produced by 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky ...

''. The game launched on November 3, 2015, in North America, and November 6, 2015, in Europe and Australia for the

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and most eighth-generation platforms, becoming the first ''Peanuts'' video game released on a

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platform internationally since '' Snoopy Tennis'' in 2001. It was distributed by

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, published by

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and developed by

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Gameplay

The player plays as

Snoopy Snoopy is an anthropomorphic beagle in the comic strip ''Peanuts'' by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. He also appears in all of the ''Peanuts'' films and television specials. Since his debut on October 4, 1950, Snoopy has become one of ...

and can play as

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to help find

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and his friends. In order to do this the player must go through several

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s, each one ending at Snoopy's Doghouse. Along the way the player will collect Jelly Beans, use various costumes, and find members of the Beagle Scouts. The player is able to customize Snoopy and Woodstock.

Story

Charlie Brown and his friends play hide and seek in his backyard while unintentionally leaving a trail of jelly beans. Snoopy finds the trail and follows them in order to locate the gang. Throughout the game, he goes through hiding spots the gang that the gang have hidden. However, due to Snoopy's crazy imagination, he believes them to be amazing and exciting places like the Amazon, space, Aztec temple, etc. He then finds

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, Linus, Lucy Van Pelt,

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and believing him to be the last kid standing. Charlie Brown believes he won, but unfortunately finds that The Little Red Haired Girl won instead as Charlie came out before she came out. Despite the fact he lost (again), he is happy that she smiled at him and congratulated him. Schroeder then plays the theme for the Peanuts and everybody dances.

Reception

The game received generally "mixed or average" reviews on

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. At

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the PS4 version holds a score of 65.00% while the Xbox One version holds a 63.56% score and the Wii U version has a score of 60.00%.

References

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