Developed by Warp Digital & Dan Ferguson and Produced by Super Rare Originals, Completely Stretchy is a first-person exploration and 3D platformer set in the strange and wonderful Grombi Isles.
Who needs Spider-Man when you have this squishy and disfigured alternative? I am talking ledge to ledge, building to building and weird and horrific civilians to weird and horrific civilians. I’ll be honest, I was sceptical at first but 7 hours later, all I could think about was the best optimal way to Tarzan myself onto a pointless giant triangle and talk with McGumble the 4th
The Completely Stretchy Experiment
You wake on a random work day and, as you do, chuck the alarm clock at the wall, its shattered remains littered on the floor. From there, you make your way to work via the Monorail(the best way to travel)
You are a big science guy at the giant science centre. After being berated for being late, you start the big experiment, but things go wrong.
An explosion later, our arms turn blue, and stretch out like long sticky and elastic-y rods. In this state, we become Completely stretched. With the ability to grab and swing off any far-away object.
The Setting is done, now for the Completely Stretchy plot:
The explosion caused the power supply of the city to go down. Your job is to find and collect the escaped little kinetic energy displaying balls of Ash and bring them back to the lab.
But how exactly do you find them?
That is where the fun begins, my non-stretchy friend.
Keep stretching—you’re elastic-cool!
After testing out the capabilities of your newfound powers, you will now be expecting a task to use these Completely Stretchy powers for. Here is where the dozens of quest-bearing NPCs are for.
On the map, there will be marked locations. Each location will have an NPC in need. Go to said NPC and interact. They will give you a task which in some way involves jumping around the map.
Like please find my children, help me find my books or Help me rob this state-of-the-art, Bank vault. Sometimes the task could be a race or a puzzle. It’s always quite fun. Except for the Vehicle races, those are actual garbage.
You will be jumping and gliding for hours on end doing these tasks. I genuinely enjoyed playing Completely Stretchy and that has been rare these days.
Each time you finish a mission, you will receive either some Kinetic Ashes which you must take to the lab to unlock more locations or you will receive a floaty blue orb which upgrades your powers.
The orb is where the Completely Stretchy goes into the next gear for me. Each orb increases the length of your arm and the stickiness of your arms. Allowing you to reach for further objects and stay attached for longer instances.
Completely Stretchy was a simple Spiderman meets Tarzan game up until I got the third upgrade. After that I was somewhere else, playing a new superhero that I did know I needed in my life.
Spiderman at Home
If you’re into swinging from rooftops and completing absurd quests, Completely Stretchy is the way to go. Sure, the vehicle races suck and some tasks are laughably pointless, but who cares when you’re flinging yourself through the air with arms that defy the laws of physics?
In the end, Completely Stretchy is the chaotic ride you didn’t know you needed.
The more you stretch, the more you realise this isn’t just a game, it’s an absurd fever dream where you’re a stretchy hero who never asked for this. But, hey, at least you’re having fun, right?
As always, Stretch on!
