Whatever your opinion of it, there’s no denying that Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time has had a massive influence on the cartoon landscape. Despite its home on a network primarily aimed at children, the award-winning series has a reach that spans all ages and backgrounds. Smart writing, well-rounded characters and great music are just a few things the show has going for it, but one of its best qualities is in its worldbuilding. The land of Ooo and the people that inhabit it are imaginative and rich in backstory, and really help to lend the events of the show’s ten seasons the kind of impact that makes it so engaging for fans.

It stands to reason, then, that a franchise such as Adventure Time is well worth adapting to a medium like video games. So far though, fans have had to make do with a raft of the typical mobile game cash grabs and a handful of forgettable console and handheld entries, with Cartoon Network seemingly uninterested in taking a punt on anything but the standard licensed game fare. Enter Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion, announced late last year and billed as an open-world adventure with an original story set in Ooo and the show’s cast on board for the voice work. Sounds like a recipe for success, right? Well, any recipe sounds good on paper, but the difference between Chef Gordon Ramsay making a rustic Italian lasagne with fresh imported ingredients and me half burning a McCain job in my K-Mart microwave is quantifiably huge.