This is an ongoing list where I attempt to do the following: Play, Complete, and Rank every video game in the known universe in order to finally answer the age old question "What is the greatest game of all time?" For previous entries find the links on the attached spreadsheet.

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Snipperclips is the equivalent of the pack-in game for the Switch even though, I'm pretty sure you had to spend money on it. It was a tech demo for a system, despite the fact that the tech Snipperclips showed off could have been on nearly any other system. Now I am sure I will be immediately shamed and proven wrong, but I don't know a single person who was an early adopter of the Switch and did not play this game. Nowadays its probably not selling at all for new Switch buyers, but I feel it was the "it" game for 2017 users.

The game itself is best described as a co-op puzzle game, where you control one of two pieces of paper as you attempt to solve each level's puzzle in order to advance. These puzzles might include getting a ball from one side of the screen to the other, or filling in a specific outline with your body. No matter the puzzle, there are always two characters on screen at all time, making this mainly a co-op experience. Yes, you can play this game alone, much like you can play "Mario Party" alone, or you can play "Overcooked" or "Moving Out" alone, but the game is meant to be played with person side-by-side. If played single-player, you can switch which player you are controlling, and the other one stays in the exact same position you left them in. There is no A.I. controlled character here, you will instead alternate controlling each piece in order to get them into the right configuration in order to solve the puzzle.

The main gameplay mechanic that each puzzle revolves around is how you can "clip" paper off your partners body in order to get them in the shape you might need them to be in. A simple example might be that you might need to transport a ball across the level, well you can clip out a little well in your partner, so that the ball can nest in there while they walk across the level. In levels where you need to fill a certain outline, you can clip off pieces that overhang the edges in order to more closely resemble the shape they want you to be in. Need to push a small button? Well clip your partner down so that they have a long pointer that they can then use to push the button.

Each character can rotate their body in a full 360 degree rotation allowing you to trim wherever you want, in order to solve the puzzles. The trick is that you can only clip what part of your characters body overlaps their body, so if you get sliced down to a small piece and then realize you need to start clipping your partners body, then you might have made the puzzle trickier then it needs to be. There really is no risk of failure though, as a simple button hold, will repair your character to full strength in case you find that you have taken too much off.

Now I don't want to sound too harsh here, but I am just going to say it. This game is 100% meant to be played by kids or with someone who does not play video games. The puzzles here are very simple and straightforward, and while you could argue that maybe a puzzle here or there took you a little bit of time to figure out, the game follows the same "Critical thinking" activity I see marketed towards my kids (3.5 yrs old). Hmmm, what shape do we need to be in, in order to pop balloons? Would this circle work? No...., what about a Triangle? Yes... Now lets cut ourselves into triangles.

I mean that isn't meant to be the slam that it sounds like. Not all games need to be hardcore puzzlers for 40yr olds who have seen some shit, but know going in that if you were going to download this to play with your best gaming bud, you might fly through it in about 2 hours. I for one, love finding games that I can sufficiently say are enjoyable kids games, that aren't quite the toddler games that are sold on phones or tablets. This is clearly a game that is very much the bridge between playing a coloring app on the Switch, to playing something like Mario. It obviously isn't a one to one translation, but it has the right difficulty ramp up to get there.

When I initially played this game, it was with my wife before we had kids, and it a fun little co-op experience, but something we did beat in one sitting. It wasn't until the DLC released that we went back in and finished off the rest of the game and hit the hour mark I outlined above. Now, this game will certainly probably get more legs when I introduce it to my kids, but ideally I would want them to play together and see if they can solve these problems just the two of them, but I think we might still be a year off from that.

All this is to say that Snipperclips is an enjoyable little game and it doesn't have a lot of flaws, but it is a short and simple puzzle game that is almost certainly below our age group. Playing with younger Kids, A+, but two bros snarfing down hot wings playing snipperclips together, probably a D+.

Is this the greatest game of all time?: No

Where does it rank: Snipperclips comes up pretty low on the list, its not a bad game, but when we are talking about the greatest games of all time, it just doesn't do anything to warrant being placed higher. Is it fun? Is it a good gateway game? A good teaching controls kind of game? Yes to all of those, but its a game you might spend an afternoon on, enjoy it and then never think about it again. Even games like EQQO and Knowledge is Power, I might personally say are "worse" games from a gameplay perspective, but those games I would argue have more staying power in my mind or in use, but also games that I think deliver something more unique then just a fairly easy puzzler. I have it ranked as the 67th greatest game of all time out of 98. It sits between "Mutant League Football" (66th) and "Adam's Venture: Origins" (68th).

Up Next

1. Top Spin (Xbox)

2. 100th game spectacular

3. Old Man's Journey (Switch)

Anyone looking for it: here is the link to the list and more if you are interested in following along with me (this is not a self promotion). Here. I added links on the spreadsheet for quick navigation. Now if you missed a blog of a game you want to read about, you can get to it quickly, rather than having to scroll through my previous blogs wondering when it came up.

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