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- Mixtvision
- Mixtvision
- Mixtvision
- Mixtvision
Minute of Islands
Released On: Jun 13, 2021
73
6.2
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
73
31% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
73
31% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Minute of Islands is a beautiful, unflinching game about the power to save what you hold dear and the responsibility that comes with it. Its breathtaking visual style, moving story and intensely affecting presentation add up to a one-of-a-kind puzzle-platforming experience.
Minute of Islands delivers a beautifully told and deep story as well as great hand-drawn, comic-style visuals.
Minute of Islands is a fascinating work that takes the player on a journey of reflection on very delicate issues. The only sore point is the linearity of certain situations and the duration of the work.
Minute of Island sis a game focused on transmitting strong and realistic emoticons. It allows you to feel what in reality you already experience in real life like the pain of losing someone dear, the sadness of wasted years, the urgency of fixing something instead of preventing it and the anxiety of wanting something to happen, and it failing to do so. It is really easy to play with Mo, through a controller, than to play yourself in real life. It’s almost comforting to play through Minute of Islans because of that. Having this said, we believe that the game is very well made and achieves the purposed it was designed for, in a society in which we are all prisoners of a virus and the will to regain normality is always looking around the corner.
Minute of Islands tells its tale confidently but its potential power is undercut by its mostly uninspired and largely irrelevant game play mechanics. It never felt like it mattered how I played the game because sooner or later the story would eventually unfold as long as I kept clicking and pushing the character through her small range of tasks. I think that playing through Minute of Islands is worth your time if you enjoy dark themed stories and distinctive art, but don’t come with high expectations for the puzzles or platforming.
Minute of Islands is beautiful and has some great ideas, but they’re not enough to fix some inherent design flaws.
While not the most substantial of releases, even in the context of this sub-genre of theme-injected side-scrolling platformers, one can’t help but hope to have discovered more in an experience like this. The origin of some parts and the reasons for others; strong and as impactful its opening remains, the game’s eventual unraveling sadly falls short of delivering on that early, promising, cleverly-distorted appearance. Pleasant that visual style and detail with its imagery remains throughout — a couple of instances where that combining of color and complexity does strike one or two favorable moments — Minute of Islands‘ unaltered, more-of-the-same approach to everything other than its imagery feels fated to be easily forgotten the moment the credits roll.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 User Ratings
6.2
30% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
40% Mixed
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4 Ratings
30% Negative
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3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 User Ratings
6.2
30% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
40% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
30% Negative
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Summary Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface..
Platforms:
- PlayStation 4
- PC
- Xbox One
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Jun 13, 2021
Developer:
- Studio Fizbin
Publisher: Mixtvision
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