Red's 3D Adventure

Red's 3D Adventure is a 3D platformer game developed by Butterfly Games and published by Activation on the Nintendo Wii U in 2014. The game is the first Red's Adventure game in HD as well as the first original game (not based off of a licensed property) to be released in HD. The game was released in Japan on March 11, 2014, North America on July 5, 2014 and everywhere else on November 23, 2014. The game received mostly positive reception. On January 23, 2021, they announced an enhanced version of the game for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X. The game is known for using the same engine as the Nintendo Wii U game, Super Mario 3D World.

Gameplay
Red's 3D Adventure is a 3D open-world type game where you control either Red, Rainbow, Cyan or Blue and explore 8 worlds. Mostly collecting various items to use. All four of them can use their powers to absorb an enemy's power. All 18 powers return. Once you complete enough objectives, you unlock the boss arena and fight a boss. In the enhanced version of the game (featuring Mineko), you can unlock a Boss Bash mode when you complete the extra 11 worlds. On top of that, you can unlock various "Secret Bosses" via certain tasks. World 20 is dedicated to Boss Bash.

Plot
On one beautiful night, A mysterious alien princess arrives to Rainbow town to celebrate the village's 50th anniversary. When she's about to speak, an evil worm named Princess Larvapillar kidnaps her and she sends seven old foes to Red and her siblings. After the main story, the Multiversal episode begins with a mysterious radio signal appearing all over rainbow town. Eventually, the alien princess had enough and went to the source of the problem: A wormhole. Eventually, Red and her siblings soon followed. All five of them ended up in Mineko's world where they meet Mineko and her sister, Rumiko, who also was affected by the "Radio waves" which were revealed to be voiced from an unknown source. Eventually, portals from other universes show up as well. Notably Digimon, Supermoon, Chrysocolla: Vengeance, Limit and Pearl: A Petaboy Series and (predictably) all of the villains joined forces together. So the team of heroes must go on an adventure to stop Masked Termite, Rebel, Madame Weed, Jet Servo, Machinedramon, Princess Larvapillar and a son of a tyrannical overlord. In the Boss Bash, the true main antagonist, a tyrannical overlord was revived by Princess Larvapillar and the antagonists merge to produced a new villain of sorts: The Fusion Overlord. When The Fusion Overlord is defeated, all of the universes begin to collide and merge into one where everyone ends up in Rainbow Village.

Reception
The game mostly received positive reviews. Many seem to compare the game to Minecraft for it's open world aspects. The game was also criticized for it's over-repetitive fetch quests though.

Trivia

 * It's the only game where the port has a different rating than the original. As the original Wii U game was rated E while the remake was rated e10+.