If I had one word to describe the gameplay for this game, it would be “lacking”. All I experienced in this game was easy to solve puzzles. After playing for a few hours, I was underwhelmed by the gameplay. After all, I got this game because I knew this, and I wanted to get the whole effect of actually playing it because good visuals or no good visuals, no game is a great one without entertaining gameplay.Then I actually started playing. The first thing I said when I opened this game was “Wow.” I couldn’t believe that this game’s visuals were made purely through real life modeling. Gadz, I really regret paying money for this.
I’d rather re-play one of The Room games than play this game for another second. Maybe I’m spoiled from the great games I have played? Maybe I expect to be challenged more than others? This game was so uninteresting to me in every way that I deleted it before even completing it. I happen to be an artist, too, yet I have so little appreciation for the design of these “sets,” or whatever you might call them if they can’t be called “graphics.” I can’t think of a better description than “Childish.” (Maybe children would love this game? That’s a possibility.) As for the game play: Ugh. Wrong, wrong wrong.The graphics look exactly as you see here. There are so many great reviews about the game play, so I figured that even if the graphics are as disappointing as the screenshots look, I’d still enjoy the game. The screenshots didn’t look impressive to me at all, but I also understood this was made using real world objects and that sometimes screenshots can be rather misleading. I consider myself to be a bit of a “graphics snob,” so it always catches my attention when there’s a game with rave reviews about its graphics, and the actual game play is equally as important. Finished the remainder of the game during a blizzard. The whole thing changed for me when I tried it on my iPad. I started to play it on my iPhone - not fun. Absolutely immersive and challenging and mind boggling. You can play the whole game just by following/working out the explicit directions in the manual, and you’d be well within the narrative to do so.
Our hero is learning the ropes, after all. This means nothing is miserably tedious or too hard because the answers are built in- not just to the game, but to the narrative. For any challenge, it gives instructions, a simple clue, or the whole solution. The manual itself is a work of art, and it’s only a piece of the game. The world is so small, and it feels small, but it is also vast and filled with familiar mysteries.
A tiny girl moves through an incredibly textured world using her wits and the manual given to her by her granddad. This game is visually and intellectually and artistically awe-inspiring.
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