Pros & Cons
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- Fun gameplay.
- Charming, colorful world.
- Interesting story.
- Excellent music.
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- A hassle to buy not-very-helpful power-ups, weapons, and buffs.
- Great music is limited to a few tracks.
Tic Toc Games's Adventures of Pip ($14.99) is a side-scrolling action platformer that's based on an interesting premise: evolving and devolving a pixel-based hero between his 1-bit and 16-bit forms to fight through level after level of goons and bosses. The unique premise, rich environments, and fun gameplay combine to form a PC game with a lot of heart and charm, despite a few minor gripes. I reviewed Adventures of Pip on PC, but it's also available on Wii U. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions are slated to arrive later this summer.
View All Sweet and Simple
Adventures of Pip is a simple game that shies away from cinematic storytelling, instead pulling you into its world with its unique setting and gameplay. You control Pip, a 1-bit hero living in a 32-bit world on a quest to save the Pixel Kingdom and its princess from the evil Queen DeRezia.
Pip is a silent protagonist, so it's up to other characters and their witty banter to drive the plot. The story's quite entertaining, too—particularly when it delves into the social interactions between high- and low-resolution citizens.
Final Thoughts
Adventures of Pip (for PC)
Adventures of Pip is a fun, ambitious action-platformer with an original concept, but it has a frustrating power-up system and sparse (though excellent) music.