Snipperclips: Cut it Out Together! Review

Snipperclips: Cut it Out, Together!, Nintendo

<p><em>Snipperclips&colon; Cut it Out Together&excl;<&sol;em> is a very different kind of game&period; It received very polarizing reactions from the gaming community when it was first revealed but many in the industry thought it had promise and the potential for fun and entertaining gameplay&period; I was sitting right in the middle but feeling very optimistic&period; I thought it looked okay but also figured it would be <em>much<&sol;em> more fun to play than it looked&period; Many offbeat and different multiplayer games are the same way&period; <em>Wii Sports<&sol;em> and <em>1-2 Switch<&sol;em> were no different&period; On the surface&comma; this game looks like you&&num;8217&semi;re just cutting each other up and solving some simple puzzles but the openness of the game design and the puzzles you&&num;8217&semi;ll be asked to solve combined with the ability to play with a friend or loved one make this a must-play for all Nintendo Switch owners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;123174" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-123174" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-123174" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;24171040&sol;12&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Snipperclips&colon; Cut it Out&comma; Together&excl;&comma; Nintendo" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-123174" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Snipperclips&colon; Cut it Out&comma; Together&excl;&comma; Nintendo<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>In <em>Snipperclips<&sol;em> you&&num;8217&semi;ll be tasked with all sorts of different kinds of puzzles&period; They start out simple and then they just <em>look<&sol;em> simple&period; Some puzzles will just require you and your partner to fill in a specific shape which in itself may look pretty easy but cutting each other into the needed shapes can prove to be more difficult than it may look&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s not difficult in an unfair or broken way&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s just more tricky than it looks&period; But that&&num;8217&semi;s the appeal and fun of <em>Snipperclips<&sol;em>&semi; cutting up your partner and having them make some final touches on the work they performed on you is half the fun&period; From moving objects into specific spots to manipulating your character to move other objects&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s just so many interesting and fun touches to enjoy in this delightful game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You&&num;8217&semi;ll laugh from the mistakes that happen and you may even chase your partner down and cut them up completely when you both get stuck&period; In the end though&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll come together and solve these puzzles together&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s an interesting type of multiplayer that we don&&num;8217&semi;t get to see very often&comma; especially in today&&num;8217&semi;s gaming climate&period; <em>Snipperclips<&sol;em> absolutely <em>requires<&sol;em> you to talk to each other and problem solve to figure everything out&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll both end up throwing possible solutions into the air and eventually you&&num;8217&semi;ll both end up just laughing and yelling out what you think will work&period; This constant process proves to be more entertaining than you can possibly imagine&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s so easy to see why Nintendo was all in on publishing this title for their newest console&period; No other company out there is as invested in creating a great and fun time centering around video games in the living room as Nintendo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;123175" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-123175" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-123175" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;24171107&sol;21&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Snipperclips&colon; Cut it Out&comma; Together&excl;&comma; Nintendo" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-123175" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Snipperclips&colon; Cut it Out&comma; Together&excl;&comma; Nintendo<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>One of the saving graces of <em>Snipperclips<&sol;em> is that there are no consequences&period; It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t matter if you don&&num;8217&semi;t solve the puzzles&comma; cut each other into pieces&comma; or even skip a level&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll need to complete a set amount of levels to move onto the next area but there&&num;8217&semi;s no harm in coming back to a level you weren&&num;8217&semi;t particularly interested in or maybe you were just stuck on it&period; This creates a relaxing atmosphere that allows fun to flourish in harmony with laughter&comma; instead of causing stress and frustration&period; There were so many times my Wife and I were stuck on specific levels but would just goof off&comma; cut each other up&comma; or just do ridiculous things and it was totally fine&period; We were able to play the game the way we wanted to and the game didn&&num;8217&semi;t penalize us&period; Being able to enjoy it the way you want to&comma; no set number of lives or continues&comma; and being able to just restart the entire level in the pause menu allows <em>Snipperclips<&sol;em> to stretch its legs and allow everyone to relax and have fun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can play by yourself or with up to four people if you have friends and controllers&period; Single joycons are all that are needed to play so a standard Joy-Con set will allow two people to play&period; If you have two full Joy-Con controllers then you&&num;8217&semi;ll be able to play with up to four people including yourself&period; The single player mode is entertaining enough but without playing with people&comma; it just isn&&num;8217&semi;t quite as fun&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t think it&&num;8217&semi;s worth buying if you&&num;8217&semi;d primarily be playing by yourself&period; However&comma; if you have a spouse or a friend or two interested in playing even a few times a month then it&&num;8217&semi;s an absolute delight and a must-own for your Nintendo Switch library&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There&&num;8217&semi;s a mode where you can just cut each other up and I recommend this when you&&num;8217&semi;re first introducing it to friends&period; It&&num;8217&semi;ll help them learn the controls and also get all the cutting excitement out of their system so they&&num;8217&semi;ll be able to focus and cut with purpose&period; Some hi-jinx and laughs will likely still interrupt levels but that&&num;8217&semi;s just a part of the fun and the experience though&period; Once you get into the game with a spouse&comma; friend&comma; or a few people and learn the mechanics&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll be flying from level to level&period; Some may take longer and it&&num;8217&semi;ll require good communication to solve most of the puzzles&period; Even if the group of people playing isn&&num;8217&semi;t very focused&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll solve the puzzles in time&period; Without clear focus&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;ll just take longer&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t think this game would work online as well and shudder at the prospect even being possible&period; This game was built with local multiplayer in mind&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The graphics are very cute and not only help add to the intended mood and atmosphere but they also work well within the game design&period; You can cut shapes down to very specific measurements and the game recognizes them&period; Since the graphics work well within the puzzles&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s never instances where it feels like something should work but fails to&period; The music is also very atmospheric and fitting for the characters and visuals&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s not something you&&num;8217&semi;ll be pulling up on YouTube later but it&&num;8217&semi;s catchy enough where it works in the game and you&&num;8217&semi;ll likely find yourself humming some of the sounds you hear&period; The voices of the characters are adorable and I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t help but mash the undo button repeatedly to hear the silly sounds the characters make&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;123176" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-123176" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-123176" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;24171129&sol;4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Snipperclips&colon; Cut it Out&comma; Together&excl;&comma; Nintendo" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-123176" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Snipperclips&colon; Cut it Out&comma; Together&excl;&comma; Nintendo<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>My only issue with the game is the length&period; We got about five and a half hours out of it and in all fairness&comma; I know we&&num;8217&semi;ll replay it quite often&period; Replay value certainly isn&&num;8217&semi;t the issue&period; I just wish there was more content&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s hard to complain though with the price only being &dollar;19&period;99 though&period; I guess what I&&num;8217&semi;m saying is that this game would just continue to bloom even further with dedicated paid DLC that&&num;8217&semi;s released for a fair price&period; Challenges of the week could help keep the title being discussed online and regular paid DLC could help keep the game fresh and growing for years yet to come&period; I think after 3-4 years of cheap&comma; monthly DLC&comma; they could release a physical edition for &dollar;49&period;99 &lpar;or &dollar;59&period;99 if there&&num;8217&semi;s enough content and extras&rpar; and further push the game to higher heights of entertainment and exposure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I wish there was a level creator that also featured community support and with the option to download levels that other players created&period; It could help fill some of the void left by the impact of <em>Super Mario Maker<&sol;em> and its unfortunate exclusion from the Nintendo Switch game library&period; I understand it would be counter intuitive to have paid DLC <em>and<&sol;em> a level creation tool but I think one or the other definitely needs to happen&period; It&&num;8217&semi;ll only make this already great game better and keep a constant discussion about this title on websites and within the community&period; This game is just too great for it not to see constant updates and support&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;ve got a friend or spouse that will play this with you at least a few times a month&comma; you owe it to youself to pick this game up&period; If you don&&num;8217&semi;t have a friend or spouse that will commit to playing this with you&comma; find a friend that will because you&&num;8217&semi;re both missing out&excl; Also&comma; if your spouse isn&&num;8217&semi;t playing games then show them some videos of <em>Snipperclips<&sol;em>&excl; Before you know it you may both be enjoying it together and with <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<&sol;em> right around the corner&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll be happy they&&num;8217&semi;re playing games because then there will be extremely solid titles to enjoy together&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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