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Capsule Review: Sticks and Bones

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A short dialog-free comedic adventure that’s apparently intended to serve as a prequel to a fuller game later on. You play as a skeletal pirate seeking a great treasure who must deal with various setbacks, obstacles, and enemies along the way.

Over the game’s short run time (my playthrough was about forty minutes) it flirts briefly with many different minigame-like interaction methods. It starts a bit like a point-and-click adventure game with a small space to explore and some limited inventory-puzzle-like action, but doesn’t open out to anything larger or less linear. Instead, it quickly becomes more like a semi-interactive cartoon, where you watch the characters do things and occasionally respond to a QTE-like prompt or do a short and simple minigame to proceed.

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