On the other hand, Giraffe and Annika’s plot contains an abundance of details that enrich the experience. But alas, this feels like it has no impact on the game in its entirety. For example, one of the biggest puzzles in the game is to gather specific clothes and the ability to dance, which will awaken the goddess of the island’s spirit. Sure, her actions have meaning at the moment. Annika is tasked with gathering these fragments, trekking across the mysterious island, and making friends with the locals… but it’s never really explained why. Perhaps Giraffe and Annika’s greatest shortcoming is its inability to establish any real conflict. Waking in a familiar-yet-foreign land, Annika soon meets a boy who calls himself Giraffe and insists our protagonist is the only one who can gather the three star fragments from the island’s three distinct dungeons.
Taking place on the fictional island of Spica, the story follows a girl-turned-feline, or Felycan, called Annika. Giraffe and Annika continuously held my attention through its 5-hour runtime, and I enjoyed almost every minute of it. While it may seem at times like “baby’s first Metroidvania,” it does so in a way that never feels overly tedious and exhausting. Ultimately, I was left with a smile on my face thanks to Giraffe and Annika, even amidst the frustrating platforming in the game’s latter half. After encountering my first rhythm-based boss fight – which completely shakes up the gameplay in a refreshingly welcome manner – I continued to be lured in by the mystery unfolding before my eyes. After initially being turned off by the simplistic approach to storytelling and open world exploration, I quickly found it impossible to put the controller down.
GIRAFFE AND ANNIKA REVIEW FULL
Beneath the surface of this colorful puzzle-platformer set in a world full of animal-human hybrids, there’s an emotional story that offers a surprising amount of fun, entertaining content in a bite-sized package. Thank you to NIS America for this advanced copy.ĭon’t be fooled by Giraffe and Annika’s semi-misleading title. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Reviewed on Nintendo Switch. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.
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