Skully

 Xbox One
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Xbox_Alive
    Aug 27, 2020
    6
    Skully is a 3D Puzzle Platformer. You are a Golem, well, most of one. You've been created to help an Earth Elemental fix the relations with his siblings. The story was interesting, but the jarring, still frame cutscenes detracted from what was going on. Given the smooth and beautiful graphics of the game and the clean art of the still frames, I felt jipped every second of every cutscene.Skully is a 3D Puzzle Platformer. You are a Golem, well, most of one. You've been created to help an Earth Elemental fix the relations with his siblings. The story was interesting, but the jarring, still frame cutscenes detracted from what was going on. Given the smooth and beautiful graphics of the game and the clean art of the still frames, I felt jipped every second of every cutscene. The gameplay is back and forth between fast-paced rolling and platforming in your skull form, then solving puzzles with one of your Golem forms. The platforming is bland, and I never felt like my abilities were being tested, in some segments even used. I felt like so much more could have been done with how fast you roll, and the incredible inertia, and gravity physics that are woven into the game. The Golems are limited in what they're capable of, each with their own couple of abilities. The puzzles relied too heavily on mixing these abilities. Scattered around the world are leaves, they seem to line out the paths, but don't have any real bearing on gameplay. They unlock character art, and thats all. So much more could have been done here, it felt lacking, even in the final stretches, when things started to get challenging. Skully is an interesting journey to take if you can get past the cutscenes, and lackluster platforming.… Expand

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Metascore
66

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. XboxAddict
    Sep 23, 2020
    65
    Skully has a lot of good qualities about it; beautiful graphics, charming characters and I had an overall good gameplay experience. While I constantly struggled with the rolling controls, I still found reasons to enjoy my experience. Skully is not at all a bad game whatsoever and I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a great time killer. I think for now, I'll keep rolling through the levels and explore some more!
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  2. MondoXbox
    Aug 30, 2020
    68
    Skully introduces a very satisfying "rolling" gameplay mechanic in nice prehistoric environments, but it's when it tries to diverge from it, giving us an anthropomorphic form and adding puzzles and platforming sections, that it fails. The problematic camera doesn't help, either.
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  3. ZTGD
    Aug 25, 2020
    70
    Skully is a game that is easily forgettable and hardly recommendable. It is something that if you got free through a Games with Gold you would be encapsulated for all of 30 minutes and then likely never play again. It had promise with its quirky story and unique mechanics, but it never capitalizes on any of them, making it feel like yet another game lost in the ether of releases in 2020.
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