Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians
Awakened from his slumber, Beatbuddy journeys through lush hand-painted environments on a quest to save his companions and his own immortality. Beatbuddy interacts with the living breathing environment that…
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians is an adventure developed by THREAKS, released 6 August 2013 on Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and Linux. The main story takes about 5.8 hrs to finish.
What Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians is
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians is an adventure game developed by THREAKS and released in 2013. It was published by Reverb Publishing. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Play as Beatbuddy, an ethereal creature who travels to unite with his sisters Melody and Harmony and stop the evil Prince Maestro with the aid of Clef who provides comic relief throughout their journey.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 9.6 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz (dual core), 2 GB RAM and 256 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians launched on 6 August 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV and Europa Universalis IV. All of them reviewed better. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Saints Row IV, Europa Universalis IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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