My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure is a video game developed by Melbot Studios and published by Outright Games Ltd. It released on May 27th, 2022[1].
It is available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, Steam, and Epic Games Store, with a suggested retail price of US$40.
Contents
- 1 Synopsis
- 2 Plot
- 3 History
- 4 Version differences
- 5 Technical info
- 6 Trivia
- 7 External links
- 8 Gallery
- 9 References
Synopsis[]
Bring magic back to Equestria and play with the new generation of MY LITTLE PONY characters, in an adventure full of fun, fashion and good friends!Earth Pony Sunny wants to make the world a better place by hosting Maretime Bay Day, a forgotten celebration of friendship and magic. But some pony is out to spoil the celebration - and they're stealing cakes, letting bunnies loose, and even spoiling Pipp's paintings!
Only you can help Sunny throw the most magical celebration Equestria has ever seen. Use your magic to put on fashion shows, find the cutest animals, fly with the Pegasi and more. Customize your ponies by unlocking new skills and accessories, including new hats and jewelry, rollerblades, and fashion magic. Your friends Hitch, Izzy, Zipp and Pipp are here to lend a helping hoof every step of the way. And you can invite another player for multiplayer minigames!
The ponies need you to make Maretime Bay Day unforgettable – can you find the mysterious party pooper and bring back the magic?
Features:• BE A PONY – Play as Sunny the adventurous Earth Pony and use her magic powers• LEARN NEW POWERS – Unlock pony skills and accessories including clothing, purses, and magic abilities• EXPLORE MARETIME BAY – Adventure across Maretime Bay and beyond to bring the magic back• MULTIPLAYER PARTY – Two players can put on a fashion show, herd bunnies and more!
Plot[]
The game begins with Sunny Starscout in a field, worried that she's late for the Maretime Bay Day holiday. She is about to head into town, but notices her bag is missing. After chasing down the bunny that stole her bag (which acts as a general tutorial), she meets up with Shimmerwing and Izzy Moonbow. Shimmerwings serves as a guide to help the player if they are unsure of where to go, while Izzy explains that Sunny can use her unicorn powers to "Unicycle" at tables and decorate for the festival or fix bridges along the way. Sunny fixes the bridge from the Crystal Brighthouse into Maretime Bay and heads to meet up with Hitch.
Hitch asks for Sunny's help with herding bunnies that have escaped and then challenges her to the first minigame, Bunny Herding. After helping out, Hitch lets Sunny into Main Street to help with the festival.
While Sunny is helping out ponies on the street like Primrose, Sprout is performing sabotage of billboards to encourage racial hostility towards pegasus and unicorn ponies, and almost succeeds at it until he accidentally confesses to it and Sunny holds a short speech outside Canterlogic to calm the crowd down. Sprout attempts an escape on rollerblades, but is chased down by Sunny, with Sunny and her friends forgiving him in the end.
History[]
The game was classified as a G rating on January 31st, 2022 by the Australian Government[2].
The game was then added to the USK database with the age rating 0, and the genre "Jump 'n' run". It was play-tested for the Nintendo Switch on January 19th, 2022[3].
The game was made available for pre-order on the Target site on March 1st, 2022 with a release date of May 27th, 2022 and a MSRP of $39.99.
On March 8, 2022, a trailer was released[4].
It was released on Steam, official Steam code sellers like Humble Store, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on May 27th, 2022. This was followed up by a dedicated PlayStation 5 version on September 30th, 2022,[5] and an Epic Games Store release on December 15th, 2022.
The game was also available on the Google Stadia cloud service (which was accessible from the Chrome PC browser, Android, Chromecast, and iOS Safari) from June 28th, 2022, until the service closed in its entirety on January 18th, 2023. No video footage is known to exist of the Stadia version.
In part due to the game's short runtime, with casual playthrough time estimated at 2 hours and 100% completion at 3 hours, the game spawned an active speedrun community, especially in the first 2 months after release.
Version differences[]
Having been developed primarily with the Nintendo Switch in mind, there are not many differences between the versions.
The Steam version (but not the Epic Games Store version) received patches that make it possible to play with a keyboard, and both PC versions have a somewhat limited set of graphics options and the ability to run with uncapped framerate.
Physical copies on launch of the Nintendo Switch version had an exclusive Russian dub and subtitling that was removed from all other versions 1½-2 months before release, and which was removed from those copies too with a Day 1 patch. Fan mods exist to carry over the translation to the PC version.
The PlayStation 5 version makes use of the PS5 menu activity cards to display progress. An update for the Xbox One version that added dedicated Xbox Series X/S functionality, made it so that playing the game on Xbox Series X/S is believed (but not confirmed) to use the DirectStorage API to reduce loading times.
Technical info[]
Although some Outright Games games have had Xbox+Windows combined versions for digital sale on Microsoft Store, as well as Xbox Game Pass inclusion, the Microsoft Store page for Maretime Bay Adventure is for Xbox only and is not on Game Pass.[6]
Trivia[]
- The games story features Sprout in a significant plot role that is impossible to reconcile with either the canon of Make Your Mark or Tell Your Tale. The games plot shows that despite his heinous actions in A New Generation, Sprout is inexplicably still in a position of authority that allows him to instigate the conflict. Both Tell Your Tale and Make Your Mark, which premiered afterward, establish that Sprout was immediately fired from his job, went on the lam and was eventually reduced to doing community service as punishment for his crimes.
External links[]
- My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure Official game's website on Outright Games
- My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure on MobyGames
- My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure on Steam
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.target.com/p/my-little-pony-a-maretime-bay-adventure-nintendo-switch/-/A-86066440
- ↑ https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/my-little-pony-maretime-bay-adventure
- ↑ https://usk.de/usktitle/51101/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJWLkMF3Tw
- ↑ My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure gallops onto Next Gen consoles today!
- ↑ MY LITTLE PONY: A Maretime Bay Adventure - Xbox
| v - e Media |
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| Movie & Specials |
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| My Little Pony: A New Generation • Make Your Mark • Winter Wishday • Bridlewoodstock • Secrets of Starlight • The Blockywockys |
| My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Chapter Two |
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| Izzy Does It • Growing Pains • Portrait of a Princess • Ali-Conned • The Cutie Mark Mix-Up • The Traditional Unicorn Sleep-Over • Hoof Done It? • Have You Seen This Dragon? |
| My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Chapter Four |
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| Top Remodel • The Jinxie Games • Sunny Side Up • The Manesquerade Ball • A Little Horse • Missing the Mark |
| My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Chapter Five |
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| Cutie Blossom Bash • Family Trees Pt. 1 • Family Trees Pt. 2 • Father of the Bridlewood • Mane Smelody • Nightmare on Mane Street |
| My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Chapter Six |
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| The Isle of Scaly • Roots of All Evil Pt. 1 • Roots of All Evil Pt. 2 |
| My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale Season One |
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| Sisters Take Flight • A Home to Share • Zipp Gets Her Wings • Nightmare Roommate • Welcome to Mane Melody • The Unboxing of Izzy • Foal Me Once • Clip Trot • It's T.U.E.S. Day • Sunny-Day Dinners • Maretime Bay Day 2.0 • The Game Is a Hoof • Dumpster Diving • Alicorn Issues • Making a Foal of Me • Neighfever • Queen for a Day • On Your Cutie Marks • Lost in Translation • One Trick Pony • My Bananas • Zipp's Yes Day • Another Pony's Trash • Starscout Code • Pony Partay • Puphunt • All That Jazz • Pippsqueaks Forever • Dragon Dad • Nightmare Night Party • Haunted House • Baby Critters Club • Filly Filling • Sneaksy Strikes Again • Making a Meal of It • Taking Flight • Snow Pun Intended • Foal Food • Under the Mistytoe • Secret Canter • A Day in the Life • Firework-ing Together • Bridlewood Spog • Secret Ad-mare-er • Pony-Kind Parade-emonium • Sparky's Sick • Sunny's Smoothie Moves • The Hunt for Eggmund Bunny • Mission Imponable • Opaline Alone • Mare Family Mare Problems • Ponytropico • As the Misty Clears • I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain(Bows) • Bridlewoodstock • Diva and Conquer • Hot Day, Huh? • Sparkle School • Moon Festival • Scents of Adventure • Attack of the Bunnisus • Lavarynth • Nightmare Market • Very Bad Hair Day • Misty Moves In • Friday Night Food Fight • The Rise and Fall • Crystal Ball • Equestria's Got Talent • Snow Business Like Show Business |
| My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale Season Two |
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| Icy Prints • Heavy is the Mane that Wears the Fruit Crown • Cake Dragon • Jazz Hearts Rocky • Misty-rious New Room • Swirlpool Starlight • The Lone Alicorn • Bunnisi Beauties • Cracked It • Buried in a Good Book • Written in the Starscouts • Where the Rainbows are Made • P + P = BFFS • Swing and a Misty • Emotional Rollercoaster • Hall-O-Marers • The Tinytrot • Sleepover! • The Dream Team Delight • Ooh a New Friend • Attack of the Vending Machine • No Place Like Home • TBA |
| Video Games |
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| My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure • My Little Pony: Virtual Magic • My Little Pony: Visit Maretime Bay (shut down) • My Little Pony World • My Little Pony: Mane Merge • My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery • My Little Pony: Bridlewood RP |
| Other |
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| My Little Pony: The Podcast |
