It’s a game for the children among us, yes, but surely even smaller gamers deserve better than the appallingly stilted, horrifically acted opening scene.

Thankfully that’s where the live action stops, but not, sadly, the instructional I-am-reading-from-a-script-completely-devoid-of-emotional-involvement voiceover.

Brian Blessed is good, though, but when isn’t he, the brilliant, bearded buffoon.

So little Hiro has nicked a thing from the British Museum which gives his scientist chum the power to open a portal to the Lost Kingdom, where the Invizimals grant him their special abilities in order to rid the realm of their robot oppressors.

It’s third-person platforming at its most basic and should serve the inexperienced gamer well as in introduction to the genre.

But anyone with more than a couple of hours’ basic gaming under their belts will guffaw in the face of Invizimals’ overtly simplistic approach.