Coraline (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Coraline

Coraline lets players take on the role of the adventurous heroine Coraline and interact with the wondrous characters from the movie while navigating the scheming Other Mother's web of deceit in a fantastical…

45 27 January 2009

What Coraline is

Coraline is an adventure game developed by Papaya Studio and released in 2009. It was published by D3 Publisher. It is available on Wii and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Coraline lets players take on the role of the adventurous heroine Coraline and interact with the wondrous characters from the movie while navigating the scheming Other Mother's web of deceit in a fantastical adventure through two distinct and interactive worlds. Players engage in unique mini-games and adventures with Coraline's friends Wybie and Cat as they collect items that will unlock the mysteries of the Other World.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Coraline series

Coraline is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Coraline series. The next entry was Coraline in 2009.

See all 2 Coraline games in release order →

How it was received

Coraline holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 22 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 4 hrs.

What it launched against

Coraline launched on 27 January 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Flower. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Flower.

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