A neat idea for a puzzle game that unfortunately barely sustains itself through a very short 2-hour game.
It’s kind of rare to find a puzzle game with a new or unique concept that actually manages to execute it well and effectively. Storyteller does just that. There’s a lot of fun to be had in figuring out different ways to solve the puzzles and seeing how the game reacts to you doing different weird stuff with the puppets. It all works extremely well and effectively. If you think “I wonder if I can do that” you probably can! The problem is, it feels like the game doesn’t fully know how to utilize its own concept. It’s extremely cool for the first hour and then the game kind of runs out of ways to add challenge to the game so it’ll just do stuff like make every character look the same so it’s more confusing.
Overall I think the game is still worth checking out if you have access to Apple Arcade. It’s a fun little concept that got a few laughs out of my wife and I over the 2ish hours we spent with it.
+ Really unique and fun puzzle concept
+ Game systems react well to experimentation
+ Puzzles that can be solved in multiple ways
+ Got some fun silly laughs from us
- Doesn’t really do a good job of scaling difficulty in an interesting way
- Doesn’t sustain itself through the very short 2 hour campaign
- Replayability in the form of badges you can find isn’t fun
It’s kind of rare to find a puzzle game with a new or unique concept that actually manages to execute it well and effectively. Storyteller does just that. There’s a lot of fun to be had in figuring out different ways to solve the puzzles and seeing how the game reacts to you doing different weird stuff with the puppets. It all works extremely well and effectively. If you think “I wonder if I can do that” you probably can! The problem is, it feels like the game doesn’t fully know how to utilize its own concept. It’s extremely cool for the first hour and then the game kind of runs out of ways to add challenge to the game so it’ll just do stuff like make every character look the same so it’s more confusing.
Overall I think the game is still worth checking out if you have access to Apple Arcade. It’s a fun little concept that got a few laughs out of my wife and I over the 2ish hours we spent with it.
+ Really unique and fun puzzle concept
+ Game systems react well to experimentation
+ Puzzles that can be solved in multiple ways
+ Got some fun silly laughs from us
- Doesn’t really do a good job of scaling difficulty in an interesting way
- Doesn’t sustain itself through the very short 2 hour campaign
- Replayability in the form of badges you can find isn’t fun