Monty Python's The Ministry of Silly Walks

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Monty Python's The Ministry of Silly Walks
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Developer(s) Boondoggle Studios
Publisher(s) Boondoggle Studios
Platform(s) Android, [1] iOS [1]
Release2014
Genre(s) Endless runner [2]

Monty Python's The Ministry of Silly Walks is a 2014 mobile game from Boondoggle Studios. The game is based on the famous Monty Python sketch known by the same name. [3]

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Development

The game was voiced by John Cleese. [4]

Reception

Pocket Gamer gave the game a score of 2 out of 5, stating: "A tragically uninteresting endless runner that squanders a good idea and spits out something that's about as funny as a dead parrot". [5] Jeuxvideo also called it uninteresting, criticizing the game's repetitiveness and lack of originality. [6]

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References

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