Cut the Rope Remastered

Cut the Rope Remastered
Release date(s)	April 2, 2021
Platform(s)	iOS devices Mac Apple TV
Genre(s)	Puzzle

Cut the Rope Remastered, also known as Cut the Rope Remastered: The Story Unfolds, is a game in the Cut the Rope series released exclusively for the Apple Arcade subscription service on April 2, 2021. Remastered is notably the first Cut the Rope game to use the first game's gameplay in over five years, with the previous mainline game in the series being Cut the Rope: Magic in 2015. As with all Cut the Rope/Om Nom games released after late 2019, Remastered was not developed by ZeptoLab; instead, the game was outsourced to and published under Dutch developer Paladin Studios.

Cut the Rope Remastered follows Om Nom celebrating his tenth birthday with his other family members, Om Nelle and Nibble Nom, reminiscing on adventures gone by. The game's level packs, referred to as books, are all based on previous games in the Cut the Rope series. Along with Om Nom, Nibble Nom and Om Nelle are also featured in their own levels with their own gimmicks: feeding three candies to Nibble Nom, and the addition of water for Om Nelle.

Plot

The day is Om Nom's tenth birthday, and Om Nelle and Nibble Nom just finished preparing his birthday cake. Upon giving it to him, Om Nelle proceeds to give Om Nom his birthday present; Nibble Nom then opens it, revealing a pop-up book recounting previous events. When Nibble Nom opens the book, the pages fly out.

After finishing the book and having a few slices of the cake, it is bedtime for Nibble Nom. Om Nom and Nelle tuck him in bed for the night. However, while Om Nelle is not looking, Om Nom creeps into the kitchen for another slice of cake. Om Nelle and a tired Nibble Nom find out and are not very pleased with Om Nom, though they cheer up and join in eating cake with him.

Gameplay

Emulating the gameplay of earlier games in the Cut the Rope series, Cut the Rope Remastered is a puzzle game. In each level, candy hangs from one or more ropes, which have to be cut to maneuver the candy to Om Nom, Nibble Nom or Om Nelle. Stage gimmicks such as bubbles and air cushions are used to assist manipulating the candy as well. As is commonplace in the series, three stars are found in every level, and must be collected to unlock later level packs, referred to in this game as books. Each book has twenty-four levels and references a previous Cut the Rope game (Evan's Home, for example, is based on the original Cut the Rope and Road Trip is based on Cut the Rope 2). Once the candy is fed to Om Nom, the player is given a score by how many stars they collected in the level and how quickly they completed it, similarly to Cut the Rope: Experiments, Cut the Rope 2 and older versions of the first game and Cut the Rope: Time Travel.

• An example of Om Nom's gameplay in Level 1-2.
• An example of Nibble Nom's gameplay in Level 1-4.
• An example of Om Nelle's gameplay in Bonus Level 1A.

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A new gimmick of Cut the Rope Remastered is that Om Nom, Nibble Nom and Om Nelle all have their own level types. Om Nom's levels play like the original Cut the Rope games; one candy must be manipulated into his mouth. Om Nom is also completely stationary for the first three books. Nibble Nom's levels have three candies to feed instead of one, and Nibble Nom himself is movable in all levels, unlike Om Nom who is stationary for the first three books. Om Nelle's levels, added in the 1.2.0.247 update, are unlocked using each of the different kinds of stars and feature water covering half of the play area. Om Nelle can also be maneuvered around the stage in all of her levels, similarly to Nibble Nom.

In a similar manner to Cut the Rope Magic and the free-to-play version of Cut the Rope 2, Remastered organises individual levels using world maps. These maps are modeled after pop-up books and are interactive; pop ups can be tapped on and will sometimes play a small skit. Tapping these pop-ups also sometimes give out power ups or special magenta-colored stars known as world stars, which get added to some levels as an extra challenge.

Three power ups appear in the game, one exclusive for each character. Om Nom's Magnet works just like the magnet in the first game, Experiments and Time Travel: the candy is given a magnetic field which attracts stars. Nibble Nom's Candy Rain is a power up taken from the iOS paid version of Cut the Rope 2, which, as the title implies, makes candy rain from the sky. Om Nelle's Teleporter is from the free-to-play version of Cut the Rope 2 and is used to teleport Om Nelle around the stage. Just like the superpowers from older games, using these power ups adds a blue star to the level, known in this game as a power star, though unlike in past installments, they are counted in each book's total star count.

Stage gimmicks

Rope Candy Divided candy Lassoed candy Star Power star World star Terrain Bubble Automatic rope

Air cushion Water Trampoline Rope gun Suction cup Chain Special blade Clock Wood Balloon

Magic path

Characters

Main characters

• Nibble Nom
• Om Nelle
• Om Nom
  • Bird
  • Chameleon

Supporting characters

• Blue
• Evil Spider (cameo)
• Lick
• Prehistoric Om Nom
• Spider (cameo)
• Viking Om Nom
• Wild West Nom

Books

1. Evan's Home
2. Experiments
3. Time Travel
4. Road Trip
5. Magic

Other modes

Weekly Challenge

Main article: Weekly Challenge

The Weekly Challenge is a game mode in which the player is tasked at playing three levels consecutively to win power ups. Every week, the set of levels changes and a different gimmick is applied to them. All of the gimmicks that appear are taken from Cut the Rope 2: the Fruit Challenge, where the player has to collect as much fruit as possible, the Star Challenge, where the player has to get a certain amount of stars, and the Time Challenge, where the level has to be beaten as fast as possible.

Achievements

Icon	Name	Description
	Rope Cutter	Unlock by completing book 1
	Experimental Cut	Complete Book 2
	A Cut In Time	Complete Book 3
	Rope Cutter 2	Unlock by completing Book 4
	Pop up Master	Unlock by finding a world star
	Reach for the Stars	Unlock by collecting 3 regular stars in every level (Books 1-4)
	Stargazer	Unlock by collecting all stars (Books 1-4)
	Power Player	Collect All Power Stars (Books 1-4)
	Top of the World	Unlock by collecting all world stars (Books 1-4)
	Power to the player	Use a Power Up
	No Help Needed	Collect 3 regular Stars in every level without help (Books 1-4)
	Candy Cruncher	Eat 100 Candies
	Bubble Popper	Pop 25 Bubbles
	Prankster	Tap the Air Cushion 150 Times
	Scissor Hands	Cut 150 Ropes
	Pop Up Pleaser	Tap 100 pop ups (hidden achievement)
	Challenge Accepted	Complete a Weekly Event
	Powered Up	Collect a Power Up
	Top Prize	Win the Top Prize in a Weekly Challenge
	Page Turner	Complete the first 4 levels to unlock
	Magic Cut	Complete Book 5
	Powerful Magic	Collect All Power Stars in Book 5
	Magic World	Collect All World Stars in Book 5
	Magical Completion	Unlock by collecting 3 regular stars in [all levels of] Book 5
	Pop-up Magic	Tap 100 pop ups in Magic (hidden achievement)
	Om Nelle Unlocked	Unlock an Om Nelle level
	Water Master	Collect 3 regular stars in all Om Nelle levels (Books 1-5)
	Water Power	Collect All Om Nelle Power Stars
	Dimension Hopper	Teleport 30 Times
	Challenge Helpers	Use each power up in the Weekly Challenge (hidden achievement)

Update history

1.0.2.191

Game update!

• Improved loading times
• Stability fixes
• Localization updates
• Bug fixes

1.1.0.224

• Explore a magical castle and mushroom forest in a brand new book
• Use magic to transform Om Nom into various animals to solve 24 new levels
• Enjoy new weekly challenges and 5 new achievements

1.2.0.247

• Play as Om Nelle in her own special water levels and teleport power up
• Collect stars to unlock 15 new levels
• Enjoy new weekly challenges and 5 new achievements

Trivia

• Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift is the only mainline Cut the Rope game to not be represented in any of the books due to being a Christmas special version of Cut the Rope.
• Om Nom, Om Nelle and Nibble Nom have noticeably different voices in this game compared to the voices they have in Om Nom Stories. Om Nelle specifically has a much deeper voice than the squeakier one she has in the web series.
• Lick and Blue are referred to with they/them pronouns in this game, despite only the individual members of the species being mentioned.
• In Cut the Rope Remastered's page on Paladin's website, a description for the original game's tenth anniversary event is used, despite that event having a very different premise to Remastered.

External links

• Official website
• Cut the Rope Remastered on the App Store