Kicking off with a cinematic in which the ball from Pong becomes our newly sentient unlikely hero, A Pixel Story engages players in an enjoyable
albeit tongue in cheek heavy retelling of the history of game development in the format of an open 2D world puzzle platformer.
So says The Atlantic,
albeit tongue in cheek.
Not exact matches
It certainly deserves the criticism, but the film works beyond satire — like but not quite as successfully as its predecessor
in tone — to work wholly as an entry
in the genre that's being lampooned,
albeit one with
tongue firmly
in cheek.
Oehlen and Kippenberger espoused a
tongue -
in -
cheek approach to their work, mixing
in a little Duchampian humor,
albeit of a more schoolboy variety.
It seems that most people accepted York's comments as
tongue in cheek albeit with a (negative) twist of lemon as pertaining to the climate consensus / advocates.