Mable and the Wood is an enchanting game. The art style is cute, with retro style characters moving fluidly through a lovely backdrop. It’s challenging and thought-provoking and looks fantastic. The creatures you encounter don’t break the fantasy mould a huge amount, but have enough originality that you feel a genuine sense of adventure exploring the world in all its diversity. This game takes a creative approach to a classic genre and crafts it into something unique and immersive.
Mable & The Wood
Triplevision Games · Aug 23, 2019
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A game where you take the form of the bosses that you kill, giving you new ways to explore the interconnected world. But it's also a game where you don't have to kill anyone. Will you banish the darkness, or will you become it?
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- 6.0It’s such a shame Mable & The Wood can’t back up its interesting premise and impressive visuals with engaging gameplay. It’s a unique take on the shapeshifting concept, to be sure, but navigating the environment is more frustrating than it is fun. There’s a nice variety of boss encounters that keep the experience feeling relatively fresh, but overall, this is one Metroidvania that fails to live up to the hype.
- Mable and the Wood is a game that has its heart in the right place, trying some interesting new things in a tried-and-true, side-scrolling presentation. Unfortunately, a lot of those ideas aren’t that appealing and the novel ideas soon unravel into an endearing but merely decent adventure.
- 6.1Mable and the Wood is a pleasant adventure with a cleverly thought out combat system. Execution is not always perfect, and the game isn’t without its flaws however overall is still an enjoyable adventure. This is a nice little platformer where you are free to make your own decisions and choose the kind of hero you want to be.
- 6.5In the end, Mable and the Wood isn’t a bad game. It takes a familiar concept and throws in something different with combat and traversal, and it works for the most part. I just think some of the execution and sense of direction was handled poorly. I almost expected after beating a boss that I would have to spend 20 minutes trying to figure out where to go next after getting a new form to use, and that’s not ideal. People looking for something different will find it here, just know that it comes with some issues, but altogether, it is a decent experience.
- 8.0Mable & The Wood is no cakewalk and there are brief moments where you’ll struggle to make progress. But promise of new abilities and new areas to explore will keep you playing – and when you leap, slash and swing your way to them, you’ll never be disappointed. Mable & The Wood oozes charm from beginning to end and, even in a market that isn’t short of Metroidvanias, it more than distinguishes itself.
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