Stick it to the Man is a 2-D platformer developed by Zoink. You play as Ray, an average everyday man who one day, when walking home from work gets hit on the head by a strange object falling from the sky. When he wakes up he finds that he now has a mysterious pink hand coming out of his head. Strange men in suits are now after him and it is up to Ray to find out what happened.
Stick it to the Man has a very unique presentation. Everything in the world is made out of paper to go along with the 2-D aspect. As such, the characters are really detailed and are very nice to look at. The music in the game is very jazzy and has an almost noir feel to it and it complements the art style very nicely. However, almost every character has an extremely annoying voice. Also, when reading peoples’ minds the dialogue tries too hard to be funny. This makes pretty much all the humor in the game feel forced and ultimately fails at what it’s trying to do. The gameplay however, is where the game really falls short. The player can use Ray’s supernatural hand to grab onto pins that stick out of the environment to get to hard to reach places as well as get to different planes in the level. Ray can also use the hand to read peoples’ minds, and their thoughts come out of the speaker on the Dualshock 4, which is a very neat addition.
The main gameplay aspect is to use the hand to take stickers out of the world. The player can get these stickers from the environment or by reading the minds of certain characters and taking the sticker out of their thought bubbles. This is where the puzzle element of the game comes into play. Every chapter has Ray in a different scenario and the player has to take stickers from a place on the level or from a character and place them in the right spot in order to cause an event that will result in the player beating the level. While the gameplay is fun and different at first, I found that it got old very quickly. Every level just requires you to read the minds of everyone in it and take stickers out of their thoughts and then place those stickers somewhere close by in order for a new part of the level to open up. The player then enters the new part and does it all over again. This is how every chapter goes and it gets very repetitive and very easy extremely fast, making this already short game feel even shorter.
Other issues that i had while playing Stick it to the Man are that aiming the hand to where you want it to go is very wonky and imprecise. This is very frustrating when you’re trying to read the mind of a specific person or when you are trying to put a sticker on an agent, but end up grabbing a pin and launching yourself right at him. Stick it to the Man is a fun and unique game but the repetitive gameplay, finicky controls, easy puzzles, and forced humor weigh the game down a lot. However, if you are a playstation plus member, I would recommend it because after all it is free.
Stick it to the Man is a 2-D platformer developed by Zoink. You play as Ray, an average everyday man who one day, when walking home from work gets hit on the head by a strange object falling from the sky. When he wakes up he finds that he now has a mysterious pink hand coming out of his head. Strange men in suits are now after him and it is up to Ray to find out what happened.
Stick it to the Man has a very unique presentation. Everything in the world is made out of paper to go along with the 2-D aspect. As such, the characters are really detailed and are very nice to look at. The music in the game is very jazzy and has an almost noir feel to it and it complements the art style very nicely. However, almost every character has an extremely annoying voice. Also, when reading peoples’ minds the dialogue tries too hard to be funny. This makes pretty much all the humor in the game feel forced and ultimately fails at what it’s trying to do. The gameplay however, is where the game really falls short. The player can use Ray’s supernatural hand to grab onto pins that stick out of the environment to get to hard to reach places as well as get to different planes in the level. Ray can also use the hand to read peoples’ minds, and their thoughts come out of the speaker on the Dualshock 4, which is a very neat addition.
The main gameplay aspect is to use the hand to take stickers out of the world. The player can get these stickers from the environment or by reading the minds of certain characters and taking the sticker out of their thought bubbles. This is where the puzzle element of the game comes into play. Every chapter has Ray in a different scenario and the player has to take stickers from a place on the level or from a character and place them in the right spot in order to cause an event that will result in the player beating the level. While the gameplay is fun and different at first, I found that it got old very quickly. Every level just requires you to read the minds of everyone in it and take stickers out of their thoughts and then place those stickers somewhere close by in order for a new part of the level to open up. The player then enters the new part and does it all over again. This is how every chapter goes and it gets very repetitive and very easy extremely fast, making this already short game feel even shorter.
Other issues that i had while playing Stick it to the Man are that aiming the hand to where you want it to go is very wonky and imprecise. This is very frustrating when you’re trying to read the mind of a specific person or when you are trying to put a sticker on an agent, but end up grabbing a pin and launching yourself right at him. Stick it to the Man is a fun and unique game but the repetitive gameplay, finicky controls, easy puzzles, and forced humor weigh the game down a lot. However, if you are a playstation plus member, I would recommend it because after all it is free.