Stuart Gipp

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Stuart Gipp·Feb 27, 2020

Critic70/100

Agreement—

It rises above its derivative title and offers an attractive, intricate, very much hand-crafted Metroidvania-lite experience.

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Stuart Gipp·Dec 7, 2019

Critic40/100

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Pine could have been a lot better. There are genuinely impressive systems at play here – for example, the other creatures inhabiting this world are gathering resources in much the same way as the player, and will even snatch up crops and objects that you were making for. But its smarter touches are totally obfuscated by the shadow of absolute technical unsuitability to the Switch hardware.

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Stuart Gipp·Nov 29, 2019

Critic40/100

Agreement—

There is space in gaming for narrative output like this, but they need to be carefully tailored to be games first and experiences second. You don't even want to know what this water tastes like.