Boxes: Lost Fragments

Beautiful aesthetics, challenges of many varieties, and an engaging game play - all things I love in a game! There is replay value too, if you leave a little time between runs through.

有趣的機關盒謎題，比起考驗腦力更像考驗眼力，許多小機關都會藏在角落裡，謎題整體難度普通流程也不長，比起上一款Door更喜歡box的這種風格，喜歡解謎想動動大腦的人非常推薦~

Très bon petit jeu d'énigmes à la The Room mais avec des boîtes ahah J'aime bien le fait que cela mélange manipulation, recherche et énigmes plus ou moins complexes.

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This game feels like someone played The Room series of games, and then thought, "How about if I make this, but for kids." It's a very pretty game, well-polished and runs smooth. Clearly a lot of love went into the design. However, I found the gameplay to consist of about 75% observation/interaction and only around 25% actual puzzles to solve. Of the puzzles that did exist, most were very easy to solve, or were basic timing tasks or manipulation tasks masquerading as puzzles. In addition, the story is rudimentary at best - in theory there's a basic plot (delivered in a flat narrative style that focuses on "tell" over "show"), but if you think too hard about it, it leaves a lot to be desired. I think this would be a great introduction to the genre for younger or beginner-level puzzlers, and if you just want to poke at pretty boxes for a while and shut your brain off, then by all means. But if you're looking for a true puzzling challenge, maybe this is not it. It's also very short - I finished 100% in around 4 hours, and don't really think I would get much out of a replay - so I'm not sure how happy I am with the $8 ish I spent on it even on sale. tl;dr: Great short title for kids/beginners, probably not worth the money for serious puzzlers

Boxes: Lost Fragments is a puzzle box game that is high on beauty and spectacle, but relatively low on puzzle complexity and brain-power requirements. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I don't think experienced puzzle game players should go into this game expecting to need to think outside the box, which I suppose is fitting. What Big Loop Studios has excelled at creating here are 20 very intricate and beautiful boxes that feel like realized mechanisms. They're fun to take apart and fiddle with. Most actual puzzles consist of basic turning of dials, moving of blocks, and aligning of shapes. If a puzzle solution seems difficult or complex, you're almost certainly overthinking it. A few puzzles look quite complex, but their solutions are actually fairly simple once you look beneath the surface. Most of the times I ever got stumped during this game, which wasn't often, it was because I hadn't noticed some small compartment or doo-dad rather than because a puzzle was a stumper. There's also a light mystery to unravel, but it doesn't really go anywhere interesting in my opinion. The player character doesn't really feel like an agent in their own story or like a fully-realized being with goals and feelings. I won't spoil, but that may be intentional. It's hard to say. At any rate, there is a cohesive sort of mechanical-alchemical world that Boxes exists in, and the technologies that exist in this world are quite satisfying to see in motion. I think what this game really excels at is making impossible machines feel possible in a physical, mechanical way. I had fun with my ~4.5 hours exploring these boxes, but I never really felt like I was really straining my brain, and my brain is nothing special.