8.0
Storyteller remains a short (well not as short as before this update), but great experience that I recommend to anyone looking to experience something only possible through the medium of games.
Storyteller
Daniel Benmergui · Mar 23, 2023
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Available exclusively for Netflix members.
Once upon a time — wait, what comes next again? Drag and drop fairy-tale characters onto the page to build surprising stories in this award-winning puzzle game.
An enchanted book of stories lays blank before you. Only the greatest storytellers can fill it with tales of romance, magic, adventure and intrigue. Assemble each interactive comic from a library of animated settings and characters that react in real time to your choices. Work your way through each genre to earn the coveted storyteller’s crown!
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- Storyteller serves up a pleasant, though far from extraordinary, take on the art of narration. A premise, though novel in its approach and easy to grasp from the word go, that sadly stops short of anything radical or surprising to help this leap off its figurative pages.
- 4.0Storyteller is frustrating in that it never feels as if you are truly solving a puzzle or creating a story of your own. Rather, you are trying to piece together the exact story the game expects from you. While there are a few levels where you can attain a satisfactory ending multiple ways, these feel few and far between.
- 9.5Overall, Storyteller is one of the most pleasant, fun, cute, and exciting puzzle games I’ve recently played. It’s for the whole family to enjoy and solve together – I actually had to pretend my Switch was dead so my six-year-old twins would stop taking it from me. I’m sorry, girls!
- Storyteller is filled with charm and offers interesting mechanics, which really do make it feel like you’re telling a story. Unfortunately, it just takes too long to get going for a game that ends so soon. I completed every level in the game, including the alternate challenges, in about two hours.
- 7.0The stories and characters are fun to experiment with as well, and Storyteller ultimately does a great job at establishing itself as something wholly unique within the puzzle game space. It’s worth experiencing for the chance to get to see everything that could ever happen in a story — from what goes right, to what goes terribly, terribly wrong.
Gamer reviews
Cute game -- could be longer!
I randomly started seeing a lot of content creators play this game. I looked it up on Steam and it was pretty pricy considering it's not a long game (around 2-2.5 hours max) Imagine my excitement when I saw it pop up on Netflix! I got to play it for (technically) FREE! Thank you, family, for still being subscribed to Netflix! The game itself is a simple puzzle about figuring out how to place scenes and characters to satisfy the story prompt. It looks cute because it's supposed to resemble a children's story book, but there are some subject matters, like suicide and murder, that probably are not best for super young kids, so parents, beware. As for bugs, I didn't really find game-breaking ones. It is slightly difficult to flip through the pages of the book using a touch screen. I find that I sometimes struggle to get to the chapter I wanted sometimes.
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