From Daedalic Entertainment and The The The The Team at Greath Than Earth, Once Upon A Puppet is an epic adventure of eight years and a powerful production worthy of a round of applause.
He meets Nieve, an ambitious weaver and puppeteer, and his men are suddenly exiled by her melancholy king. With her magically tied puppet Dref hanging on the strings of her gloves, this dramatic duo is ready to do whatever it takes to undo the infinitely curious actor to entertain the audience.
Gliding and swinging through a beautifully crafted theater set straight from a Broadway production, guided by a platform mechanism inspired by the art of puppet theater, solving puzzles in its deep and detailed world, likened to something that has been hit and elucidated like Little Nightmare.
The pieces of the abandoned set respond when pushed, pulled, and manipulated characters, wavying the surrounding cardboard, slowly bringing a sense to scenes that lead to darker states of the world stage.
Naive and DREV take on tasks from storytime characters in their own way during your quests. As the pair meet in the awful straits, you bravely confront the dangers of the Badlands below, dodging the carelessly thrown device that once created the soul of a tattered theatre. Everything that reaches Heaven Hamlet is a safe haven for abandoned actors and disgraceful stage paths, and Dreb believes he can help the pair unleash the strings that tie them up.
The mystical oracle, a wise old lady who speaks of much of your journey, asks you to search for a magical ring in the Forbidden Phantom Forest. Here it is reintroduced to characters like Kumpel. Kumpel employs Drev to practice using bows in the barn before teams tackle the dangers ahead.
This is not an easy feat for anyone but the Master Puppeteer. The Master Papeater must stabilize the bow while the DREV pulls back the string.
The two can team up in countless other ways, such as Nieve, who is stabilizing Drev. In other scenes, our long range of weavers grabs objects far away, allowing only dolls to achieve something that is not possible.
Dressing a bunch of collectibles and decorating the sets that make up the world of Once Upon Uppet, the multifaceted Neeve can work her weaver skills on a sewing machine and spin the discovered threads into DREV costumes. And the stories of the past are slowly stitched together as they collect the scattered pieces of stained glass that once adorn the sets of the stage show.
Neeb waves and walks Drev towards the stage in front of him, and they miss so much that the string of bonds gradually tightens. The stages magically fluctuate between the past and present, giving reasons to the spiral self-doubt that swirls from the unraveling of Neeb’s mind and expulsion from the upper classes of theatrical world.
Along the pair’s jagged journey, we walk a journey to the forefront of the world stage, revealing a long-forgotten story surrounding this carefully crafted world and the shady secrets that have led to its present state. Enjoy spontaneous shadow play as you pass through flat walls. He turns down the underlying story of other staff getting caught up in the web that runs around Neeb and Dref’s industry.
As the strings connecting the story begin to loosen, we learn how much the fate of Neeb and her magical marionettes are intertwined with the wider theatre kingdom as we prepare to face the new Masters on Broadway.
Once a doll has become a doll and has been released on PC through the world-wide teams, eight years of single-player puzzle platformers have appeared on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X | S, and Steam and the Epic Games store.
If you want to bring world magic to your home, the Supporter Pack includes not only digital art books, soundtracks, and some neat new skins and string colors, but also a way to print and paint your own Drev figurine.
Additionally, you can get a warm, fuzzy feeling by providing even more support to a small team of independent creatives. Isn’t that good?
If you like what you’re watching, the one-time behind the scenes edition of Dolls includes a supporter pack in the base game and a slightly discounted bundle.
