‘Adventures of Pip’ is a clever adventure built on familiar themes and joyful nostalgia
At first glance, The Adventures of Pip seems like another 2D, side-scrolling, adventure game; however, this delightfully postmodern fairy tale, is a deft, intelligent action platformer that takes the age-old damsel-in-distress story and makes it fresh. You play as Pip, a one pixel hero in a world full of 32-bit characters, and the only one brave enough to rescue the princess kidnapped by the Skeleton Queen and her minions. As the synopsis reads, “moved by his plight, the ghost knight, Sir William bestowed upon Pip the power to harness the bitstream.” The Bit Stream is the life force that fuels Pixel Kingdom and the twist that makes Pip a a beautiful tribute to the 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit era that used to be.
