Jazzpunk

Critic reviews

• PSPush Square

  Brandon Marlow · Sep 30, 2016

  8.0

  Jazzpunk: Director's Cut is a wild ride from start to finish. If you mesh with this style of humour, it's a barrel of laughs, and the game is just downright fun to play. Your experience will only last a few hours, but that just makes sure Jazzpunk never loses steam and is always hurtling forward at a million miles an hour.

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• DSDual Shockers

  Steven Santana · Sep 23, 2016

  8.5

  Jazzpunk knows its all about the joke and never spends too much time on one singular scenario. Due to the speed of which these are thrown at you though, you may lose your place or forget what exactly you were supposed to do and how to do it. Despite that I still find it recommendable to almost anyone who can appreciate absurdist humor and a irreverence for logic when it comes to comedy.

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• TThumbsticks

  James Sweeting · Mar 05, 2014

  10

  Jazzpunk is a wonderful example of what can be done within the video game medium by ignoring the rules and going off to do its own thing. Yet at the same time understands that what makes video games different to other mediums is interactivity and that the role of the player is essential for the experience to take place as the player is not a passive participant but an active one. Jazzpunk often looks to the past for inspiration, yet utilises this in a way which is appropriate for the more experimental titles of today.

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• JJoystiq

  Jessica Conditt · Feb 28, 2014

  8.0

  Jazzpunk invites and rewards playful inquisitiveness. It's a comedy game wrapped in a point-and-click puzzler; it's intense spy action in an adorable, cartoony world. As inviting as that might be, it's still limited. There's only so far these jokes can go – especially fart jokes – and the world supports only what it knows it can handle. This makes for a short game, by most standards, but an entirely enjoyable one.
• TTechRaptor

  Stephen Gillespie · Feb 25, 2014

  9.0

  Jazzpunk is a very short game and, due to the nature of humour, not one that carries much replay value. It is however fantastic for what it is. By being short the pace is never allowed to stop and you never get too much. It’s somewhat tiring due to its persistence and they shove so much into this short time that you do feel fulfilled. There’s a lot to see in Jazzpunk and you do some amazing things. So many moments are hugely memorable and any lover of the weird or the obscure will find so much joy here.

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• ZZTGD

  Dave Payerle · Feb 14, 2014

  8.5

  The game (and its achievements) are structured in a way that encourage players to wander around and see everything there is. Even having completed the game I’ll be going back through it again, just to catch some of the things I missed. While I wish it was $10 instead of $15 it’s still about the cost and length of a movie, and I can’t remember the last movie I enjoyed this much.

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