Review: Claybook (Nintendo Switch)

Claybook is a unique world made entirely of clay. Shape your character and the world around you to overcome challenging obstacles.

Pros:

• Claybook has gorgeous clay graphics.
• 1.4GB download size.
• Own in-game achievements.
• Online Leaderboards.
• Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
• FPS counter on/off.
• Opening tutorial level.
• Claybook has cross-platform sharing content on/off.
• Editor-powerful creator tool. You can upload them as private/friends/public. You can test levels and get a headstart by using one of the 6 presets-rad racer/rocket racer/water management/sandboxes of chocolate/stampede/tricky puzzles.
• Play has 3 modes-create/community levels/playbooks.
• Playbooks (single player) has 5 books with a handful of levels within each. In the Woods, blob and the chocolate factory, greener pastures, candy land, and final frontier.
• Stars- earn up to 3 in a level and stars unlock new levels.
• You play a shape, can morph into other shapes, possess other shapes and do the mission tasks.
• You collect residue/coloring of the ground you roll over.
• Creation/puzzle gameplay.
• Rewind-for when you mess up but also leaves behind a copy of yourself (stamp) this is a neat mechanic.
• Actions-morph shapes possess shapes and you can carve into the world to open it all up.
• Fun as heck to play.
• You have a goal but so much freedom to play how you want.
• Goal-you opens the level goal once you hit 50 percent of the level goal. Obviously going for 100 percent will help get those 3 stars.

Cons:

• No touchscreen support.
• Small text.
• Controls are fiddly in Claybook.
• No jump button.
• Little replayability for the main game portion.
• The camera is extremely awkward to use.
• The kid in the background looks creepy AF.
• Longevity is all dependent on players creating content.
• The music.