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Starting this Thursday, March 28, and running until Wednesday, April 3, you can play The Elder Scrolls Online free on all platforms, plus you can get the third game in the series totally free on Sunday 31st March. The first two are also free (permanently via Bethesda. see the end of this review for more details and links to the deals.

In Brief

A basic retro looking platformer

Introduction:

On the far-out planet in a galaxy, there lived little citizens - Pippi. But time when their home was attacked by the angry and artful monster came. Pippi were quickly evacuated on other planets. The leader of a Pippes decided to bring together all the friends and to expel the villain. On the way to a victory, hero it is necessary to pass a set of planets to meet on the way of angry assistants to the villain.

Collect whistles, they can be hidden in walls. Secret passages at some levels, will help the main character to pass drop and to win against the main villain.

In a game it is necessary to gather a whistle, to approach the sleeping tribespeople of a pippa, having pressed E or a Space (the button B on the joystick) - to whistle in a whistle and to wake it. Jump on the pump to pump up the balloon and to save the friends. After you save all on pippes on the map, jump in the portal for movement to other planet.

Reference accessed HERE. 27th March 2019

Installation:

PippiStory downloads to a 45.9 MB zip file that unzips to two files, (a setup executable and a read me). The game installs to the following path by default, but can be changed if you wish. The installed game is approximately 119 MB in size.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Pippi Story

Five shortcuts are installed to the desktop, four of which can be safely deleted (i.e. Falco Space - Online Game!, FalconLine Online Games Website, FalcoGo WebGL Games! and Free Games Downloads!). If you don't want to install the games shortcut to the desktop during installation, just make sure the install desktop shortcut is unchecked when the 'additional task's window appears; you will still get two of the other Falcoware shortcuts installed (i.e. FalconLine Online Games Website & FalcoGo WebGL Games shortcuts). Also, if you don't like icons installed to the quick launch task bar, make sure you also uncheck the appropriate checkbox when the 'additional task's window appears (after the Select Start Menu Folder window).

The Game:

There are a lot of design issues with the game, but it is in a playable state.

To the dev:
* Fix the alignment on the walking sprite.
* You may want to point out to the player that they can double jump, and that they can hop on enemies to damage them.
* The way you pass through an enemy after hopping on them is really... Unusual. It grates against my Mario instincts.
* I can jump over the walls at either edge of a stage and fall into the abyss. You may want to make the walls higher.

Reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by ẕ α ʍ γ и ɨ x 5th aug 2017, reposted by Whiterabbit-uk 27th March 2019 2019

funny small game that makes you feel you've returned to good old 8 bit Nintendo times :) Pixel game graphics looks really similar to that times when 8 bit was the highest achievement in technical progress. Yes, there is a complicated story behind the Pippy, but lets be honest - who ever cares about the story this much?

game process is a lot similar to Super Mario - everlasting meme and hit game - there are jumps to eliminate enemies, jumps to perform some action, hidden rooms you cannot find until you search for it, though you can die while searching - sometimes you just don't see where you are jumping to.

However, overall game's done properly - levels design is interesting, game's constantly keeping good level of contrast between secondary elements and primary ones; though i must admit its much more difficult than Super Mario was :) or maybe I just became little older. I can recommend it to anyone who likes platformer games

Reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by Vittoria 27th March 2017, re-posted by Whiterabbit-uk 27th March 2019 2019

It is a very basic platformer, the goal is to collect little clouds that to save your friends. The game controls well, the music is acceptable and the pixel art is decent while not moving but if you are moving it becomes blurry. The level design is boring and in half of the levels you have to wait until an enemy moves out of your way so you can progress.

The game also has a lot of bugs, on the very first screen you can glitch out of bounds, there are many of these spots where you can go out of bounds. I also managed to skip the bosses 2 and 3 and got the achievement for killing them by defeating and dying to the first boss 3 times. As a result of this bug i never got to fight the second boss and could go to the third world immediately.

Reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by Seppo 11th May 2017, re-posted by Whiterabbit-uk 27th March 2019

I really wanted to like PippyStory, because of it's cute style. However, I cannot recommend it due to the many issues I have with it. For one, I really hate how many levels include tight corridors full of enemies, as this is really cheap and unfair to the player in a game where you don't have any weapons or means to defend yourself other than jumping. The screen and sprites are constantly flickering, which is distracting and annoying. The player only has 3 hearts, but the invisibility frames don't even work and lead to a lot of enemies cheaply killing you quickly. In the first world these issues were very few and far between, and the game was enjoyable, but as soon as I got past the first boss, all the enjoyment was quickly sucked out of the game.

I think with work, PippyStory could be a really great game for a reasonable price, but in it's current form I simply cannot recommend it. If the developer were to fix the glitches and perhaps design the later levels a bit better, I would change my review and recommend it, but for now all I can say is that Puppy Story is not worth it.

Reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by Tekki 18th July 2017, re-posted by Whiterabbit-uk 27th March 2019

Conclusion:

PippiStory is a playable platformer; I didn't have time for a decent session playing this game partly due to having two reviews to sort, plus i have other responsibilities to carry out. From my limited game play, it's worth checking out for yourself, then decide whether its worth keeping. It has more positive comments than negative by the Steam community. :)

Other Reviews and Videos of PippiStory:

You can read mainly positive comments about PippiStory HERE.

Also, you can see several in-game videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE (swearing included).

Suggestions:

After you've had an opportunity to play today's giveaway please take a few moments to give some positive or negative feedback; for example, what you liked or disliked about the game, or how it could be improved. If you don't like the genre at all, please explain why and if any, what improvements would change your mind? If you don't have time to post a comment today, please do so at your convenience, thank you. If you wish to post a review or comment about the game later, you can access the comments section by going to the game giveaways home page, then scroll to the bottom of the page where it says Archives and select the date the giveaway was live (giveaway days are in bold type). This will open the appropriate page for you to post your comment or review. Alternatively, you can google the name of the game and include Gamegiveawayoftheday in the search. This should give you a list of links to whenever this game was given away.

If you miss today's game giveaway you can always get the game via Steam HERE for £0.79/$0.99/€0.99/₽29.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting PippiStory to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted, for example, a common issue seen since the Themida wrapper was introduced three years ago is that some community members installation of the game are blocked by their security because Themida code has been known to hide malware, (usually an error message is flagged for example 'The executable is corrupted' even though in reality it is not); so as a precaution some anti malware programs will block and even delete the suspect installation files even though the files (i.e. the setup, read me and setup.gcd files are actually totally free from malware. This issue can be solved either by rebooting your computer in safe mode with networking or a quicker method is to temporarily turn off your security software to allow the installation. You could also try white-listing the setup.gcd file. In the almost 12 years this game giveaway site has been operating there has 'never' been a game given away that was infected with malware.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the developer Tatyana Murzina and the distributor Falcoware Games for giving away PippiStory and also to the game giveaway team, for getting these free games.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If PippiStory doesn't interest you, but you still hanker for something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've not updated the thread in a while, but most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

The rest of the information that used to be posted in the game review can be found in the forums HERE. Finally, check out Delenns threads for details of other free games and offers HERE and elsewhere in the game discussion forums HERE, (usually on the first page of the game discussion forums). The free game over at Epic Games is Oxenfree a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift, ( worth £14.99/$19.99/€19.99). Oxenfree ends April 4th, where a new game called The Witness will be given away. Indie Gala have just added Memoranda to their free games list, plus another 20 free games in their recently added showcase section that includes adventure, RPG, Simulation, strategy and casual games i.e. Memetown USA, The Great Story of a Mighty Hero, Camp Sunshine, Five Nations, False Birth, GOR - Gorilla Office Rampage, Home is where Chip is, Age of Fear: The Free World, Die Legende von Saya: Befehl aus der Dunkelheit - (The Legend of Saya: Command from the Dark), What Never Was, The Last Humans: Awakening, Childhood, Dunwell, Safe Not Safe, Hi Hotel, Bugs Must Die, Cuadradito y Circulito, Hellino, Hovership Havoc and Wake Up , or you can find them all HERE. Finally, there are some excellent bargains on sale via Steam HERE.

The Elder Scrolls celebrates its 25th Anniversary this week since the first in the series ''Arena'' was released in 1994. If you create a free account at Bethesda.com this Sunday 31st March, you will get a free copy of the third Elder Scrolls game Morrowind HERE. Accessing other Bethesda pages and you'll get a pop up giving you a button link to redeem the code ''TES25TH-MORROWIND'' This can only be done on the 31st March.

Many fans of the franchise still say Morrowind, released in 2003-4 is the best of the lot despite its aging graphics; I agree. When I first played Morrowind 15 years ago I was literally gob-smacked by the gameplay and at the time the beautiful open world environment. Granted, it looks dated now, but its still brilliant. Later iterations of the game look amazing, though Bethesda/Zenimax have dumbed down the game slightly since Morrowind. Of all the games I've ever played, The Elder Scrolls in my number one favorite game. If I was only able to take one game franchise with me it would be The Elder Scrolls, with its brother game Fallout coming a close second.

You can get also get the first two games in the series free from Bethesda HERE(Arena) and HERE (Daggerfall ). If you buy the add-on The Elder Scrolls: Battlespire via GOG , they include Arena and Daggerfall for free. The GOG versions come with emulators that enable you to play the games without having to mess around with separate emulators.

Also, all the Elder Scrolls titles are on sale over on Steam during the 25 year celebrations. You can find then all Here until Monday evening.