Tearaway Unfolded

Tearaway Unfolded

Tearaway Unfolded is comprised of three short stories, which intertwine into one larger narrative, through which the player and their messenger friend are guided by two (mostly) wise and playful characters, the Green Man and the Fortune Teller, on their quest to hear new tales.

Above all else Tearaway Unfolded is a platform adventure game and Media Molecule have taken the experiences from making the award-winning LittleBigPlanet series and applied them to a vibrant, living 3D world.

Tearaway Unfolded’s exclusive game engine creates a 3D animated world from sheets of paper to capture the real physics of paper material that will tear, fold, or crumple, especially when the player reaches out and interacts with the world.

Rebuilt from the ground up to take full advantage of the PlayStation 4 and the DUALSHOCK 4, Tearaway Unfolded uses the full range of inputs to deliver and immersive and unique gameplay experience.

Tearaway Unfolded is a living papery world inside the player’s TV, and constantly breaks the fourth wall to deliver a unique game experience. Tearaway Unfolded is an experience like no other; a game that knows the player exists, and integrates them fully into the story.

Tearaway Unfolded Review

Have you ever played a platformer in which you can’t jump? Tearaway Unfolded starts out that way. When you first explore the game’s colorful world of paper trees, grass, ponds and wooden bridges, your skills are limited to running around, shining a flashlight and throwing benign objects. Although this skill set increases over time, the beginning of the game is a very slow burn — and the lack of penalties for dying does not do much to build tension or excitement.

Then again, Tearaway Unfolded isn’t supposed to be an action-packed thrill ride. It’s laid-back and bucolic, and adopts a deliberate storybook feel. Rainbow “bookmarks” denote the beginning of each chapter, while the villainous Scraps (bits of assorted newspaper and cardboard) exist only because the story needed antagonists.

Tearaway Unfolded’s beauty is in its simplicity, but this simplicity is also its downfall. Almost anyone could pick up a controller and play through Tearaway with little difficulty, but it doesn’t offer much in return from a gameplay perspective.

Tearaway Unfolded isn’t exactly a story for the ages, but it’s not nearly as cloying as the saccharine LittleBigPlanet, an earlier title from British developer Media Molecule. Like the papercraft world its characters inhabit, the plot is paper-thin and is really only there to facilitate the beautiful visuals and fitting music. The narrative is there, but something a little richer would have gone a long way.

Tearaway Unfolded is a beautiful game with stellar production values. It’s a shame, then, that the top-notch music and sound don’t highlight a substantial game underneath. While Tearaway Unfolded is fairly diverting and relatively amusing, it’s also insubstantial, not doing much to escalate the challenge or gripping narrative.

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Summary
Tearaway Unfolded is a smart, slick reimagining of Media Molecule’s underappreciated gem. The innovative methods by which you can twist, turn, and bend the colorful paper world provide interesting new challenges to wrap your head around, and the already beautiful world has an even bigger allure on the PlayStation 4.
Good
  • Creative and effective use of the DualShock 4
  • Stunning art style
  • Creatively solving puzzles is rewarding
Bad
  • Requires extra hardware to get the most out of the game
8.2
Great
Gameplay - 8.2
Graphics - 8.1
Audio - 8.3
Longevity - 8.2

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