We can tell Double Fine had fun making this game. A re-interpretation of the point-and-click adventure genre, Stacking feels more like a playground than a puzzle game. It’s something to keep in mind when asking yourself what you want from the experimental title. There Is a plot, a linear progression, a bunch of puzzles and some strictly
game-like elements such as achievements, but If you go full steam ahead along the straight and narrow you’re going to miss much of Stacking’s charm.

That’s not to say it fails to charm anyway. Stacking’s entire premise Is a world Inhabited by wooden matryoshka dolls — the ones where gradually smaller and smaller dolls can be placed Inside one another...

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Dammit, I love Rayman. Growing up on PC, he was one of the few sidescrolling platform heroes to persist beyond the first wave of MS DOS luminaries — Keen, Nukem et al. His very biology was quirky (no legs, nor arms —just floating extremities) and the levels he travelled through were wacky, and there was an overriding sense of playfulness to the whole affair.
Rayman Origins captures all of this perfectly, but with a jaw droppingly beautiful art style. Environments and backgrounds resemble gorgeous matte paintings, whilst the incredibly intricate character animation evokes the whimsical stylings of a modern cartoon. Complementing this is an eclectic soundtrack that deftly evokes a kind of comical majesty as the action gets faster, more ridiculous and more deadly...

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