Donde Heliopedia se afana en simularte un juego mucho más grande del que realmente acaba siendo, Stacklands sí que llega a ser un juego denso y complicado al poco de empezar. Aunque tal vez eso se deba a que la base empleada aquí (amontonar cartas en variaciones cada vez más distintas) da muchas más oportunidades que lo que unos muñecos paseándose por planetas jamás sería capaz. En cualquier caso, Stacklands funciona mejor como un Solitario avanzado en el que compites contra el tiempo en una carrera de aguante. Algo que, en los videojuegos, existe desde los tiempos de Hammurabi. Pero una cosa que he ido dándome cuenta de los juegos de Sokpop es que, en lugar de aprovechar este molde para introducir chistes propios u ocurrencias a costa de las mezclas, presentan la idea de una forma bastante llana y directa. Esto hace al juego sentirse más accesible, pero tal vez con menos personalidad que uno que se atreviese a retarte a mezclar una carta improbable con otra.
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Where Heliopedia strives to look like a game that's bigger than it actually is, Stacklands becomes a dense and complex pretty soon after the beginning. Though perhaps that's because the basis employed here (stacking cards in increasingly different permutations) opens far more options than the physics offered by the tridimensional dolls. In any case, Stacklands works best as a tenser Solitaire in which your main goal is enduring as much as possible against the odds. Which is the kind of gameplay that has existed in videogames since Hammurabi. But one thing I've been noticing about Sokpop's titles is that, rather than taking advantage of this to make some jokes or introduce personal flourishes, they always streamline themselves to present the idea as plainly as possible. This probably makes their games feel more accessible, but perhaps at the expense of greater personalities.
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Where Heliopedia strives to look like a game that's bigger than it actually is, Stacklands becomes a dense and complex pretty soon after the beginning. Though perhaps that's because the basis employed here (stacking cards in increasingly different permutations) opens far more options than the physics offered by the tridimensional dolls. In any case, Stacklands works best as a tenser Solitaire in which your main goal is enduring as much as possible against the odds. Which is the kind of gameplay that has existed in videogames since Hammurabi. But one thing I've been noticing about Sokpop's titles is that, rather than taking advantage of this to make some jokes or introduce personal flourishes, they always streamline themselves to present the idea as plainly as possible. This probably makes their games feel more accessible, but perhaps at the expense of greater personalities.