- Publisher: Dan Ferguson , Super Rare Originals
- Release Date: Dec 12, 2024
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Jan 6, 2025Swinging around the Grombi islands mostly works and interacting with inhabitants can be comical. But without the possibility of even causing accidental mischief, Completely Stretchy’s open world can feel a bit sterile.
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Feb 2, 2025Despite its colorful world and fun movement mechanics, Completely Stretchy fails to capture the essence of its inspirations, offering a shallow experience with a restrictive open world, uninspired objectives, and limited interaction beyond its quirky aesthetics. Its art direction and humorous dialogues provide some charm, but the game ultimately feels like a watered-down version of Sludge Life with little new to offer.
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Jan 9, 2025On one hand, the short and tight nature of the experience, the eccentricity, and the fun movement keeps you entertained and consistently surprised. But at the same time, it comes across as a bit of a one-trick pony, a game that feigns depth and content variation and in reality struggles to be more than what's on the surface.
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Jan 2, 2025Completely Stretchy is a very finicky game, and unfortunately has a lot of jank to it - I actually ended up getting soft-locked from one of the quests, seemingly one of the major ones to acquire an item that furthers progression. This occurred due to the game not really liking when the player character is moved by objects besides their stretchy arm, so became glitched outside of an elevator as it lowered down, There was a button up above to call the elevator, but it didn't appear to work. I went back a few times after the fact to see if it resolved itself, and even tried glitching back into place to try continuing the quest, but unfortunately there wasn't any luck. The only solution within Completely Stretchy would probably be to start a new save file. The game is short at least, so there's that, but losing progress is frustrating, even in a short game. If the softlock were fixed somehow, then it would be much easier to recommend Completely Stretchy, but as the game currently stands, it is enjoyable but rather flawed.