Puppeteer (2013)

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

I enjoyed this game, the gameplay was very unique and fun, but to be honest I didn't care much for the story or characters. Overall this game is a very unique experience and I fell in love with the gameplay; a great diversion from the games I usually play (shooters). Puppeteer is actually really action packed which was good, to compare it to LBP; it's less charming/no user created content/no multiplayer; but it has a real emphasis on gameplay with fast paced action. Gamers who only play shooters or whatnot should open their approach to video games, this one is quite good tbh. The only reason I'm giving this a 75 is because honestly platformers aren't my cup of tea.. but if you can get this game for cheap( or free), definately check this game out.

I liked the original idea and the whole theater play concept, but the same way the real theater has tendencies to bore you to death sometimes, Puppeteer left me unentertained in a similar way. It's still an ok and unique platformer with decent amount of variability, creative boss fights and appealing overall concept, but it slowly becomes more tedious than entertaining, it's trying to be funny too hard and fails, characters and voice acting is annoying and the overall feel is way too infantile. I still enjoyed Puppeteer quite a bit for what it is, but had to force myself to finish this and was glad that it's over, that's never a good sign. It's a pity that this interesting concept wasn't used for something more than just another half-annoying kiddie platformer. 6/10

If you're looking for one of those "kiddie" platformers, play Puppeteer. Otherwise, stay away. If you are, like me, on a quest looking for a more adultish platformer that you can love both the gameplay and the plot (Brothers maybe?) it's not there.

This game is clearly reusing the Little Big Planet game engine, which if you've played you will know has horribly floaty physics and stodgy controls which makes for a very unsatisfying platforming experience. To some extent LBP got away with this because that game gave the players an almost unlimited amount of creativity in the level editor. Puppeteer has no level editor and so I have to judge it on it's own merits which are few. Now the thing that attracted me to this game was the highly original concept of the game being presented as a an interactive puppet show. Presentation wise everything is fine, music, art style, well the graphics aren't the best there a bit dark and gloomy but still alright. However the last time I checked it was the gameplay that was the most important thing and it's just not good enough. It plays just like a series of Little Big Planet levels except with horrendously long interruptions from cut scenes and the games narrator who never shuts up. Boss fights all play out the same and finish with a lazy quick time event. Power ups are none existent, you instead collect heads which are supposed to have powers but you can only use them at a specific part of the level and confusingly the game always seems to give you the wrong head. The script is supposed to be funny but I don't think I cracked a smile once. The characters in this game never shut up even when your trying to concentrate on what your doing they just go on and on giving you more information about the story which you stopped caring about a long time ago.