Review jared_c 4/5 · Oct 17, 2023
Ever Wish Hitman Were Less Violent?
Stacking is a third person adventure puzzle game made by Double Fine, the studio behind the Psychonauts series, Full Throttle, Brutal Legend, and other fantastic games. In Stacking, you play as the smallest member of a working family where all characters are nesting dolls, all fitting inside of another. Being the runt of the family, you are told you can't …
Read moreStacking is a third person adventure puzzle game made by Double Fine, the studio behind the Psychonauts series, Full Throttle, Brutal Legend, and other fantastic games. In Stacking, you play as the smallest member of a working family where all characters are nesting dolls, all fitting inside of another. Being the runt of the family, you are told you can't do as much as the other bigger members, but when a dastardly Barron starts abducting children and members of your family for child labor it's up to you to save the day! Each level has a series of objectives that can be completed in a variety of ways. You can talk to other nesting dolls in the level to get bits of information that may lead to hints, or provide humor that Double Fine does so well. To complete these objectives, you have to sneak behind other nesting dolls that have specific abilities. Each objective usually has up to 5 different methods to solve, each varying quite a bit and providing their own sense of humor. You can replay all the levels to strive for the additional methods of completion, as well as finding all the characters in a level, and completing the hijinks. These hijinks typically are just small objectives based around acting as one character and inconveniencing or wreaking havoc on other characters. It's a fun distraction to pad out game play. It's a relatively short game, even if going for the 100% completion, but well worth your time. It feels like the most recent iteration of the Hitman games, but combined with a Monty Python skit.
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