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Rating by Gabe posted on Feb 26, 2013 | edit | delete


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Rating by Kix posted on Jun 5, 2012 | edit | delete


Inventive, Extra Challenges


Positives: Puzzle solving like I have never seen before, Multi-solution puzzles which add most of the challenge and replay ability
Negatives: Ho-hum story and characters

Story
Stacking is a light hearted adventure with some quality comedic moments along the line of what has begun to be expected from a company like Double Fine.  The overall theme of the game is a bit dark (maybe if this was a game for children), going from poverty, to kidnapping, and bonded child labor, although the comedic tone both disguises and lessens the importance of these themes to the overall story.
The plot and the characters are a bit simple and won’t leave a lasting memory for me.  You are off to rescue your family which has been kidnapped by the villain, the Barron.  Your family’s abduction is part of a larger child labor and bonded labor scheme that the Barron is trying to control.  You must both rescue your family and end the Barron’s child labor racket. 
The characters that populate the game world are more there for the gameplay than to add depth to the story.  They are there for you to take over to solve puzzles as well as give simple hints when you talk to them.  In this way they feel more like complex parts of an environment puzzle than actual characters.

Gameplay
While solving puzzles never blew my mind I did always appreciate how it always felt like something I hadn’t done before.  Game play consists of you taking over another character in order to use their unique abilities to solve a puzzle.  The game encourages you to dive into each new doll that you come across, test out their ability, and remember that ability because it is likely that you will have to use it in the future to solve a puzzle.
The game consists of four different worlds with 3-5 plot puzzles that you most do to continue through the story.  Each of these puzzles has 3-5 possible solutions to get though.  When you enter a room with a puzzle a box would pop-up letting you know how many solutions there are to the puzzle and home many of these you have found.  You only have to solve it once to progress though the plot, but most of the enjoyment of this game is solving the puzzles with all the different possibilities
Multi-solution puzzles are both a gift and a curse.  Seeing how you only have to solve it once to progress the story you may be encouraged to just keep on going and possibly come back and find the other solutions latter.  Solving a puzzle the first time can be very simple.  A lot of time I would already be controlling the correct character with the ability for one of the solutions when I first came across the puzzle.  While solving a puzzle the first time I would notice different paths or I would remember different abilities or combination of abilities that characters possessed, which I had come across and that I could use to solve a puzzle a second or third time.  The real challenge to puzzles came when trying to figure out the last one or two solutions when I had already expended with the obvious solutions.  This was the part of the game that I found most enjoyable.

Overall
The game is worth checking out just to try out a type of puzzle solving you may have never seen before.  I strongly recommend finding all the solutions to the puzzles you come across because this is where the challenge lies and for me, the most enjoying part of the game.  The game has a great art style which looks and sounds perfect for a lighthearted imaginative game.  The story and characters won’t leave a lasting impression on me, but I will think back to the type of puzzle solving they introduced in this game.


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Time Played: 5-10 hours

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Rating by Lucien21 posted on May 27, 2012 | edit | delete


Charming.


This is a Double Fine game I downloaded a while ago on PSN and never really played.

You play as Charlie the smallest member of the Blackmore family. They are a family of chimney sweeps during the American industrial revolution. The family is tricked by an evil moustache twirling Baron into slavery to pay off their debts and it’s left to you to rescue the family one by one.

The game has a very cartoony 30’s asthetic and is portrayed as a silent movie. The characters are all based around Russian matryoshka dolls that stack on into each other in sets.

As the smallest matryoshka doll in your family set you can wander the world, but ultimately can’t do a lot. So you can “stack” into the next size doll and upwards until you are a large character of 6 dolls. Using which ever doll is the largest you can use it’s skills to solve the puzzles within the game.

All of the puzzles have multiple solutions making for great replayability. Need to clear out a room you could use a character to fart in a vent, or seduce the guard and sneak in and slap the beejesus out of the waiter.

Gameplay video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWh2o…eature=related

I loved it. It did feel a bit drawn out towards the end, but it was a lot of fun.


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Time Played: 5-10 hours

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