Release Date: August 7, 2018
An unusual mix of an adventure game and a platform game. The title was developed by Swedish studio Zaink! and it is a spiritual successor to Stick It to the Man!, a game from 2013. The players assume the role of Penny Doewood. After a tragic death, she must replace Death, who goes on vacation. The girl is solving problems of numerous restless souls while also trying to discover the truth about her own death.
Flipping Death is a platform game with adventure game features. It was developed by Zoink Games and it is a spiritual successor to Stick It to the Man! - the previous game of this studio, that debuted in 2013.
The main protagonist of Flipping Death is Penny Doewood. She dies under mysterious circumstances and she discovers the world on the other side. As if that’s not enough, the girl must replace Death that went on vacation. She uses newly acquired powers to help ghosts that for various reasons are restless. She also uses these powers to discover the truth about how she died. The game features absurd humor that the players might know from Stick It to The Man! The scenario was written by Ryan North, the creator of the comic adaptation of the popular TV series Adventure Time.
The gameplay in Flipping Death is based on solving simple riddles by using Penny’s unique powers. She can throw her scythe and then teleport to the place where the weapon lands. This enables her to move efficiently through the realm of the dead that is – as the title of the game suggests – a reverse version of a real city of Flatwood Peaks. This is an important fact because each task given by restless souls requires you to act in both worlds. However, Penny can directly move only through the other side. The only way for her to interact in the real world is to possess living people by collecting a specific number of ghostly creatures in the realm of the death. This enables the players to control living people and to read their thoughts. Switching between worlds is fluent and can be done with a single press of a button.
The riddles in the game aren’t too complicated, but their solution is frequently very absurd and humoristic. Many of them require the players to take advantage of the physical system.
Flipping Death features a two-dimensional, cut-out-like graphics with three-dimensional character models. The style of the game is similar to the one used in Stick It to The Man! The game features a climatic soundtrack as well. The Nintendo Switch version of the game supports the HD Rumble system that provides advanced vibrations for the Joy-Con controller.
Platforms:
PC Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch
Developer: Zoink Games
Publisher: Zoink Games
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System Requirements for Flipping Death Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Dual Core 2.1 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 1 GB GeForce GT 550M or better, 3 GB HDD, Windows 7.
Game Ratings for Flipping Death Video Game.
TheXboxHub: 3.5 / 5 by James Birks
On the whole, Flipping Death delivers a creative idea that will satisfy for a little while as you have fun possessing weird people, working out which one’s the key to progression and, of course, literally becoming Death himself
PlayStation LifeStyle: 8 / 10 by Chandler Wood
Zoink has been branching out on their styling a little bit. Both the recently released Fe and upcoming VR game Ghost Giant are a bit of a departure, but their flat, cardboard-styled worlds and laugh-out-loud writing are what I will always know the studio for. Flipping Death is Zoink continuing to polish that formula and correct the balance of compelling gameplay and dialogue. It's visually striking, earns its laughs, and gives plenty of reasons to re-explore both the living and dead sides of Penny Doewood's little town. It might still lean a little heavily on its dialogue, but it never does so in a way that feels like it takes away from the game being played. You might just find Zoink's latest to be worth dying for.
IGN: 8 / 10 by Cam Shea
If you like your games with an offbeat sense of humour and plenty of personality, Flipping Death comes recommended. Its central game design hook of flipping between life and death makes for an interesting world to navigate and puzzles to solve, and its characters are so oddball and endearing you'll want to hear every conversation in full, not to mention find out how it all ends.
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