January 22, 2017

Tearaway Unfolded

Date played: January 21st
Platform: PS4

I had a bit of free time with my daughter yesterday, so we decided to play video games. She asked me to play the game where "there's a little paper girl". It took some discussion, but eventually we figured out that she meant Tearaway Unfolded.

It's been a long time since I played this, so the first few minutes had me stumbling around trying to figure out the controls, but it didn't take long before we were jumping around the beautiful paper-craft world and helping it's residents. Tearaway is all about it's fun controller interactions, like clicking on the touch pad to activate jump pads. We moved along the world, completing some platforming, fighting a few enemies all while trying to find a way to close the hole in the sky.

One of the best moments was when we had to take a picture of ourselves with the Playstation camera. My daughter and I gave a big smile and posed! Our picture was then put into the world in many locations, including on some turn tables and a bunch of other stuff.
Having our picture in the world was a nice touch!
Another great moment is when we got to ride a little pig! Our paper girl got on his back and we ran through the world, smashing stuff recklessly to the joyous sounds of our pig mount's squeals and grunts. The little fucker even farts loudly every once in a while... We found some cauliflower on the ground, and we tried to push it forward through the whole level, which was apparently very funny to my daughter. Eventually, I ran into a slope that was a bit too steep for my little vegetable companion, so we had to leave the cauliflower behind...

Tearaway leans into it's paper theme quite a bit, including many scenes where we had to help residents rebuild their faces or bodies with paper. We gave a dude a set of 3 eyes, we gave some sexy lips to an elk and we even designed some fancy butterfly wings.

We reached a wide open area filled with fun things to explore. Our objective is to find the key to a shack. Unfortunately, it was stolen by a murder of crows... We've been chasing the crows for a while now, then had to stop playing. Tearaway made for a very enjoyable few hours with my daughter.