Just about every puzzle has more than one way to solve it and some require some seriously creative thinking to figure out one of the ways. You could push and pull rocks and debris over to create a set of stairs to jump up to get the item or you can use your laser and just cut the the pillar down and retrieve the item on the ground. For example say you need something from the top of that rock pillar above. This sounds like a fairly basic amount of powers to have at your disposal but you quickly realize how diverse the options it gives you can be. So basically you can push directly, push and pull from distances and cut things up. His main weapons are a laser, a grappling hook and a remote grasping rocket claw. You cruise along behind Tiny as he uses his gadgets to solve puzzles and playfully destroy his sandbox environment. The sound effects are good and match the action perfectly and the visual interpretations of the sounds look straight out of old Batman episodes but far more creative. While writing this review I have already listened to one of the songs on YouTube a half dozen times. Instead of just a couple songs here and there composed as background music they loaded the game with a whole album worth of indie bands and made it so that you find the songs on cassette tapes throughout the game. It screams indie, comic books, even a little Borderlands in a playful way. I ran around my little sandbox plenty of the time just to take in the sights. They set the mood for the game as much as the introductory storyline and the concept art matches the actual game graphics so well that it looks like they were just copied exactly whereas the concept art on most games is usually far more detailed than the final results. They are terrific and amazing in their stylized fun. Normally I talk graphics and audio at the end of the review but I just have to address them now. Tiny is preparing for the confrontation with his brother by practicing on his Reality Boy game system when HIT! the taxey is wiped out and the journey begins in earnest to catch the daunting and deadly older sibling and save the world! The artifact is some tighty not-so-whitey crusty underwear which are worn on the head and give the wearer great powers! This is all discovered in the first few minutes of the game so no need for a spoiler alert. The legend unfolds with Tiny racing across the desert with his trusty companion The Radio and a robot driver in Robot Taxi’s Taxey in search of Tiny’s mean big brother Big who stole an ancient artifact given to Tiny by their grandpa for safe keeping. This is one of those rare occasions where I really gush over a game because I think it is a defining example of what an indie game can bring that rivals the big name companies. You are wrong sir! Or madam! This is an indie game release from Black Pants Game Studio that made has already won a bunch of awards and deserves every one of them. I know that with a name like Tiny And Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers you expect a hardcore game with over the top shooter action probably produced by Sony for several million dollars.
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