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I'm glad for Game Pass on Xbox because there is a wide range of games to choose from. Whenever I think about playing something easy, I can find it. In this case it was Paw Patrol: MIghty Pups Save Adventure Bay.

This game presents you with a variety of challenges. Each mission gives you two pups with their unique abilities and sets them in an environment where they have to solve various problems. I guess there's some environmental cleanup story going on, only, I didn't pay much attention to it. I was mainly interested in the gameplay and progressing through each level. 

Each level has a trail of collectible dog treats to pick up. These unlock mini-game levels and snapshots of the pups, environments and antogonists. If you miss some of the collectibles, no problem, the game remembers what you picked up the first time and only shows the ones you missed; you don't have to get them all in one go. Other games could learn from this idea. 

The mini-games involve flying, swimming and vehicles. You have to pick up all the dog treats in a level and sometimes other items too. Some of the mini-games have multiple levels to complete. 

I did every darn thing in this game because it was pretty fun. It's not particularly difficult but not boring either. There's a boss fight at the end that uses more than two pup's abilities to win. 

I enjoyed it and got my 1000 achievements in largely one sitting. Howlongtobeat.com says 5 hours for the main story. Maybe I played a bit longer to beat all the mini-games and get every dog treat in every campaign level. 

The game was developed by Torus Games, an Australian dev that works mostly on tv/movie licensed properties. They did Beast Quest (a game I've often considered in the Xbox store), Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard (a game that uses Overloard/Pikmin mechanics that I played but got stuck in), the 2017 Ben 10 game (I'm going to have to check that one out), and How to Train Your Dragon 2 on Xbox 360 among many others across all systems.