Snap & Grab

PROS: - Art style. Stylized over realism always adds more character. - Voice acting. - Puzzle game dressed as a colorful heist game. Essentially you're the person doing reconnaissance before the actual heist and plans it out. - MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SOLVE A PUZZLE. Always a welcome thing. - It doesn't take itself too seriously. Putting on a chef hat is already considered being "disguised." - There's Corgis. A bunch. CONS: - Volume Mixing. Please fix it. Sometimes even when the audio settings should be correct. It doesn't really reflect what we hear. It'll just sometimes jump from normal to a megaphone in your ear then to barely hearing anything after cutscenes or "running" your heist. - Animations. Some of them just clip onto each other. When I ran some heists, NPCs would clip into each other. - Sometimes weird puzzle solutions. There was a puzzle where it shouldn't have worked but worked anyway.

A very stylish but very janky game. Snap and Grab is a Hitman-style game but you commit heists with a crew instead of solo assassinations. The current release is Episode 1 with one level. There are quite a few objectives and extra challenges but it is still one level without much variety so be aware. The gameplay is focused on taking pictures in the level to plan your heist. You construct your plan and watch it play out, adapting it if you run into any snags. There are quite a few ways to complete levels which allows for a lot of player freedom, but bugs can frustrate your schemes. For example, a later mission requires you to stop a laser trap. When you take a picture of it, the info you get is it can't handle being wet. Okay, so I grab a soda from downstairs to dump on it. But wait, there is a second laser and it needs to be stopped at the same time. There's a snag, which I fix but getting another crew member to simultaneously dump a soda on the second trap (this is where I learned you can do two actions at the same time if they are the same type of action, which felt like a natural way to teach the player, well done.) So I deactivate the traps and grab the goods and... it didn't work. The alarms still went off. I don't know if I messed up something, if the Paper Soda Cups are not flagged a liquids, or if the solution is stright up bugged. So I just abandoned that plan and made another, which didn't feel very good. There were quite a few screwed up animations and camera placements during the heist scenes too. The game needs more polish and maybe a fastforward button for the hesit sequence so people don't have to rewatch the same thing over and over again trying out solutions for a problem at the end of a heist. The style is currently the best part of this game (although I have high hopes for the gameplay after polish gets dumped on it). It's is ridiculously 80's and even has some good vocal tracks playing which really sell the atmosphere. They even had an animated credit sequence which got a smile out of me, it was very charming. The story is an earnst love letter to criminal fiction like Lupin III and Sly Cooper. There isn't much story yet but what is there is enjoyable beginning. The charcters are archtypes but have some fun writing and good enough voice acting to give them some life (Rio Rivers and Brick are my favorites so far). Good luck to the dev team, I hope you are able to finish and polish this game, as lack of content and jankiness are the two biggest marks against this game right now, everything else was great.

Simple and fun puzzle game in a theme of Pink Panther and the likes. Good music, interesting art style and characters make it a good time. Even with one level there is enough to explore around. Conversationalist in my favourite, with officer Rio of course.

I enjoyed my time with Snap & Grab a lot. It combines stealth (of the disguises variety, not the Solid Snake variety) with a sort of action-programming mechanism, in that you figure out how to approach your heist and take photos of the various moving parts in order to give instructions to your crew. Some wonkiness aside (where it's sometimes not clear why your plan didn't work), it works well. The game also has a lot of charm. My only major criticism, and it does lose a LOT of points with me for this, is that it doesn't make it sufficiently obvious that what you're buying here is only one chapter of the game. THIS IS NOT A FULL GAME. It's one level. I understand (but don't like) episodic releases, but they need to be clearly identified as such. I honestly wouldn't have bought it until all the episodes were out if I'd known.

having a lot of fun completing all the challenges in the first level. I love the characters and all the different ways you can complete the heists. Looking forward to more episodes!!

Yes- I received a code for this. Feel free to ignore this short review! Ok- dang this game is fun! Can't wait for the next episode. I occasionally got frustrated, but the vibes are so good I found myself getting over any issues REALLY quick.

I really hope they redo and improve the character models to have even a fraction of the charm that the 2D art does. I love everything about this game, but the character models are distractingly unrefined. If you're able to look past that, this game is just exceptionally charming.

An almost aggressively charming game starting from the animated opening titles and continuing through the design, dialog, and the parody music track "Tiger's Den". The aesthetic works even you've lived through the 80's (like me) and you're tired of 80's nostalgia (like me) as it feels like its being properly utilized instead of a cheap ploy for memes. The heist planning is easy to pick-up but allows for some complicated organization, and the failures are often amusing and since there are no penalties you can indulge in trial-and-error or experiment. The only letdown is the current amount of jank; characters phase through walls and doors, objects disappear, sometimes things don't trigger. If you're hostile to bugs you might want to wait, otherwise the errors merely elicit a mild chuckle. Hopefully the developers will have the time and resources to iron these out and expand the game.