Review: Incredible Mandy (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Harvard L.

The premise of Incredible Mandy is simple enough – it’s a 3D puzzle platformer with particular emphasis on the puzzle side of things. It comes published by Circle Entertainment and developed by developed by Chinese studio Dotoyou Games, which also made the very charming Koi. Incredible Mandy is reminiscent of games like The Legend of Zelda and Rime (with the aesthetic bearing a particular similarity to the latter), but it’s much less interested in exploration or world building, preferring instead to provide an amorphous, very pretty, but ultimately generic world as a backdrop for its jumping puzzles. Pair that with a relaxing, non-threatening tone and you’ve got a great game for relaxing and unwinding, which feels especially at home on the Nintendo Switch.

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