The key to Snipperclips: Cut It Out Together! lies in cutting your own characters to pieces to fit whatever colorful, lighthearted challenges it throws at you. That idea, applied to a series of peculiar but engaging objectives, consistently leads to clever and oftentimes hilarious use of this puzzler’s central mechanic. And those objectives are well worth tackling alongside a group of friends.
Offering two sets of puzzles — one for up to two players and another set for up to four — Snipperclips simply throws you into each problem in a refreshing way. The only information it provides is a name and the basics of its snipping mechanic — characters can overlap and cut away those parts of each other. Being given so little direction is actually freeing because it prompts you and whoever you’re playing with to think creatively. I found myself immediately exploring every level, testing the bouncy physics that cause items in the environment to react to whatever shapes you’ve created and occasionally messing with other players by cutting them to pieces before tackling the puzzler’s wide away of eclectic challenges.
No puzzle feels like there is a single correct solution.
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The Princess Power-Up minigame is a particular highlight — essentially a game within Snipperclips, you have to move an in-world joystick to control a princess who has to collect a series of diamonds. But, you must first cut the right path for her to walk, avoiding enemies along the way. I would take an entire expansion of these levels alone.
I played Snipperclips while waiting for a movie at a theater, during dinner at a diner, and at home on the couch. The bite-sized approach to puzzle design delivered
Snipperclips delivers a consistently fun experience no matter the setting.
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Adding up to three more people in co-op just means more creativity from the different perspectives, and thus more fun, especially with the puzzles designed for larger groups. Make a gear out of your friend, transport sludge via a ramp made from your character’s body, or pop balloons with another player’s head sharpened to a point. Every weird solution, or attempt at one, is a delight to work through in all of Snipperclips’ more than 60 puzzles.
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And the bright, angular art design is easily understandable and a joy to play through, so it rarely left me or other players at all confused about how to proceed throughout those challenges. The player characters’ ridiculous facial expressions only add to the silly nature of your tasks, as they squint under the weight of every bowling or baseball or gasp in horror as their friends snip away at them.
Snipperclips is undoubtedly more fun when playing with others.
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Verdict
With a clever idea for 2D physics-based puzzle solving and a bright and colorful personality, Snipperclips: Cut it Out, Together! is a good experience by yourself and a great one with friends. Solving every puzzle won’t take too long, but Snipperclips is continuously clever in its puzzle design and adorably fun to watch play. It left me eagerly waiting to reunite more frogs, put together more cat puzzles, and solve whatever other odd challenges developer SFB Games might have in mind.
