Flipping Death

Flipping Death (Adventure-Platformer)
I loved this dev's game Stick it to the Man!, so I had high hopes for this game. I was not disappointed!
Options include separate sliders for SFX, Music and Voices, Subtitles and Language. Can choose to play Windowed before you enter the game.
Story:
Penny is just your regular girl... If by regular you mean quirky, enthusiastic and, well... dead! When Penny is mistaken for the temp that Death ordered, she quickly finds herself wielding his scythe while he flits off for a much-needed vacation. Now Penny not only needs to figure out how she died, but is now stuck helping out the living and the dead!
There is no Journal, but never fear! The narrator is here! The story is broken into 7 chapters, but you don't have to wait for the auto-save between chapters. Leave at any time, and the narrator will get you caught up when you come back in-game.
The story itself is witty and fun, silly and funny and just all around delightful. You can skip the story bits, but what fun would that be?
Gameplay:
This isn't a platformer. It's an adventure that has some platforming in it. Yes, you're going to have to move quickly in a couple of places, but nothing too frenetic. The focus is more on the story and progressing the game by completing tasks and puzzles.
The game is called "Flipping Death" because that's exactly what we're doing: Flipping between the world we know and the world of the dead. The premise of moving back and forth between realities is nothing new, and yet here it feels so inventive, so different than any other game I've ever played. Here's how it works:
From the spirit world we can see the glowing forms of the living. Once you collect enough ghost critters, you can possess their bodies and roam around in the real world! Each character has their own skill, so to speak, such as chomping, poking, chopping... You get the idea. Not only that, but you can read the minds of those you've possessed, adding some extra humor and depth to the characters.
Death's scythe will help you get around quickly, and not just because it has a jump-teleport function. It is also a handy MAP that will allow you to teleport to the location of any person whom you've previously possessed. It'll flip you back to the dead side of things, but you can re-possess without having to "pay" with critters again.
Movement and "flipping" is intuitive, but I kind of felt at a loss about what I was supposed to be doing at first. Do yourself a favor and stick with it! Luckily, there are HINTS available from the pause menu! Clicking on a numbered hint will give you a picture of what you should be doing next.
It wouldn't be much of a game if you didn't have some goals, and there are plenty of to be had. There are optional quests that you can see by hitting the pause button: Top left for goals to complete the level, bottom right for optional goals. Completing an optional quest will not only net you extra Steam achievements, but will also unlock collectible ghost cards.
Missed some ghost cards? Replay a chapter! There is a Chapter Select from the main menu that will allow you to go back and try again.
Sights and Sounds:
The graphics are a charming cardboard cutout/pop-up book style that works beautifully with the "flipping" theme, and they're quite beautiful to boot!
The voiceovers are fantastic! They couldn't be more perfectly-suited to the story, the graphics and the overall theme of the game. Same for the sound effects and music, just perfect!

Verdict:
Although it's obvious that these devs also made Stick it to the Man!, they managed to make Flipping Death feel completely fresh and inventive. A game like no other. It's smart and funny, entertaining and interesting and just plain fun. The writing is stellar, the voiceovers are great and the graphics perfectly-suited to the game. In a word? Delightful! Definitely a must-play!

- Great if you want a few nights of laughter.
- Fun puzzles not, none of them stupidly hard.
- Every character memorable.
- Very Double Fine like.
- Finished in 9 hours.

Funny story, great characters, black humor and just great design like in Tim Burton’s movies. Alas horrific controls spoils all of this. After 15 minutes you are ready to curse everything in the world because Penny cannot walk, jump or interact with her environment.
I advise you to overcome yourself. After suffering a little torment, you’ll be able to enjoy one of the funniest stories about a nihilist girl, by chance forced to do the work of Mr. Death. Dark humor, original but too simple puzzles and wonderful characters whom you can possess. This will guarantee you a few amazing hours.

Really liked this game :) I am a fan of point and click adventure, and as this game is full of collect-puzzles (help me with this, then I give you that-kind of puzzles)! The platforming in this game is really easy and brought some extra fun into it, not so much extra challenge: Which I liked as a casual gamer. The flipping part and the story are fun to, I liked the humor and designs a lot. Recommend!

If you liked "Stick it to the man" You will probably like this more as this game is much simpler and less aggravating than that was. It has the same cool art style, and zany dialogue that is mostly charming (minus the need they found to insert political agenda that was not necessary to do because no one talks like that and it doesn't add anything to the comedy so it wasn't necessary).
All you really do is walk back and forth across the small platformer based map and switch between the land of the dead and the land of the living by possessing people. There's a silly story with attempts to be clever by being super meta often. If you like that you'll like the writing although it's sometimes trying waaaayyy too hard but that didn't totally bother me as I found the voice acting completely fine despite not being familiar with any of the actors and that mostly made up for the fairly mediocre writing.
Unfortunately I don't have much else to say about it. The game was short, breezy, and for the most part I enjoyed it.
I think if I had one thing I like the most about the game it's the art style. I think it's their biggest saving grace.

The artstyle, the voice acting, the dialogues, the soundtrack, everything in this game is just superb. The aesthetic really draws you to follow the story and all characters are unique and quirky.
Yes, the controls aren't perfect, and once I had to restart a chapter because I entered a texture and fell out of bounds. But nonetheless this game is great! It's not like you'd die for giving it a try :P

Really funny and entertaining adventure. About 5-6 hours long with excellent dialogue and good voice acting! I hope this studio can produce more of these gems!