ASA: A Space Adventure - Remastered Edition

on OSX it is completely broken and unplayable - no combination of screen/desktop resolution makes the game content fit the screen or work with the mouse - it is totally unplayable and broken. if your going to release a game for a particular o/s (in this case OSX) it would be best to test it first. so do i recommend it ? absolutely not.

Original Myst-like game in space!

Good thing I only paid 2 dollars! Don't bother with this. This game deserves some note for it being literally the only game I have played which manages to have a less good navigation system than Myst. And Myst came out in the 90s so it gets a pass. You can't tell where you are, or what anything is. The very first room you start in has such insane perspective warping you can't tell what's going on. Good thing you have a little robot voice to tell you what you can click on and what objects are, because you won't understand otherwise! Every time you move forward, it changes perspective. So one screen you are standing on the floor, the next you are looking down at the room from the cieling, the next you look up from the floor. It's like you're a spider. Each shot is composed horribly, so you can't tell how things are oriented. This is inexcusable considering Myst mostly solved these problems in the 1990s and only got better from there. So that aside, the puzzles that I've seen aren't really good. They don't really have any reason for being what they are, just kind of random stuff that is put there arbitrarily. The story seems okay, but it seems to be mostly revealed through very boring voice acting of digital diary entries. I might give it another go since I didn't play that long, but I think it's just a no from me.

Oi. This game reminds me of all of those old games I used to try to play on my PC back in the early days of static images and random video clips. It's a bit nostalgic, but it also reminds me that I hate these random click adventure games where you're trying to solve complicated puzzles with little guidance.

les énigmes sont bien dosées en difficulté. en hd il semble mieux fait bien que je n ai pas joué à l original. durée de vie et histoire sympa. mais j ai du aller voir des soluces pour le finir. certaines enigmes j ai bloqué. pas trop d indications. il vaut mieux le faire sans faire de pauses longues. il n est pas du tout chargé en objet ou en point d interet mais je vous conseille de prendre en photo (avec votre portable par ex) des imprim ecran si il y a des choses importantes affichés. sinon vous allez galerer. donc c est un bon point un clic meme si il a de l age.

Je pense que le jeu pourrait être mieux........ Sinon les énigmes sont superbes :-)

Myst-Like réussi. Le jeu est faisable sans solution... Tres bonne ambiance

Awful, awful, awful clunky interface. Not even remotely intuitive. Dumped ASAP.

After playing Myha and enjoying it, I decided to do a complete playthrough of Black Cube series. ASA is the first game in the franchise, which consists of 4 main games + 1 free prequel. The game (and series in general) centers around a mysterious black cube that floats in space and possesses hypnotic powers. Our nameless astronaut is drawn to the cube and finds himself in a spaceship called Ark. The minute he steps into the ship the cube is stolen from him by another astronaut and he becomes trapped inside the Ark. Our hero needs to solve the riddles of the Ark and retrieve the cube to get back to his homeworld. Positive: - Puzzles are the most important element in this genre and they are well done in this game (with a tiny exception I will mention in the negative part). There is a very nice dose of variety; deciphering number systems, hacking into computers, geometry puzzles, searching clues in diaries etc. The pacing of difficulty is also well done, initial puzzles are easy without becoming boring and the later puzzles are difficult without being frustrating, It is clear that developer played many Myst-like games and learned what works and do not work in this genre. - Sci-Fi elements are more than window-dressing . It is clear that the author has a deep love for Sci-Fi; the story, exposition and atmosphere of the game is very captivating. There are lot of inspirations from classic Sci-Fi novels (2001 being the most evident one) and the especially towards the end game ends up delivering a lot more than being "Myst in space". - Graphics are above average in general, however the cutscenes are surprisingly good for an indie game. Negative: - Navigation is very messy. The environments are simple, however because camera angles change so abruptly it gets unnecessarily complicated to draw a mental map in your head or getting from point A to point B. I eventually got used to it, but I think this aspect will be very frustrating to first-time players. - There is one very under-clued puzzle towards the end, which kind of ruins the perfect puzzle design streak the game had up to that point. What makes it worse is, the clue for the puzzle becomes unreachable when you encounter with this puzzle, and hence if you didn't take note of the clue before, the puzzle becomes unsolvable. What make it even more worse is, once you understand how the puzzle works it is actually a very cool idea, I really wish it was implemented better. Fortunately there is a final puzzle after that one, which was a joy to solve and ends the game on a high point. - ASA is a bit on the short side, I think the game could have used at least 25% more content. Conclusion: ASA is a very promising start to the Black Cube series. Although it is far from perfect, the puzzles and atmosphere/story are mostly very good and it is definitely worth your time if you are looking for a solid Myst-like game. Score: 7.5/10

It's a game, and it has puzzles (technically)--but I think it really needs at least a *few* more similarities to be called "like Myst." The interface is frustratingly clunky, and the perspective is so warped that it's very hard to tell where you are and where you're going. The grainy and "glitchy" graphics make the game feel like a fever dream, especially combined with the powerlessness of the cut scenes. The game wants you to care deeply about a cube, but other than some really strange rambling after the fact, gives you no reason to care so much about it. Together with the slow and rambling audio files and ineffectual plot, the game is extremely boring. It's extremely difficult even to try to simply focus on the puzzles because the interface is so terrible. All in all, a deeply frustrating game I didn't even want to keep playing.