Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
Players will explore a living storybook with Elmo and Cookie Monster. The game is centered on problem-solving, relationships and "learning key life skills".
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster is an adventure developed by Double Fine Productions, released 11 October 2011 on Xbox 360.
What Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster is
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster is an adventure game developed by Double Fine Productions and released in 2011. It was published by WB Games. It is available on Xbox 360 only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
While browsing the library, Elmo returns to the street with several books, including one called Once Upon a Monster. Cookie Monster has fond memories of the book and they both enter it magically. Inside, they find that not everything is as great as Cookie remembered and help all the monsters in the story with their problems. The levels in the game are defined as chapters in the book. Chapter One: "The Greatest Party There Ever Wasn't" Cookie and Elmo discover Marco's birthday party, which consists of only himself. Elmo and Marco go off to get supplies, while Cookie Monster goes for food. Elmo and Marco collect streamers in the Electric Jungle, discovering a hole to a secret cove. In the…
How it plays
Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Sesame Street series
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster is the 32nd of 36 entries we hold in the Sesame Street series. It arrived 12 months after Sesame Street: Elmo's A-to-Zoo Adventure the Videogame. The next entry was Kinect Sesame Street TV in 2012.
How it was received
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster launched on 11 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Shadow of the Colossus (2011). All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Shadow of the Colossus (2011).
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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