Boxes: Lost Fragments

I hate that my primary defense of the Big Loop Studios games has to be, "they are what they are." My only criticisms are that the games lack things that they don't pretend to contain: a compelling coherent story, a persistent environment to explore, characters, anything more than the loosest themes about power and freedom and order and chaos. You can't help but compare this one to The Room. The gadgets are beautiful but less plausible. The puzzles steal from Big Loop's previous games rather than finding a way to be original. You have only the slightest sense that there is a larger environment around you besides each box. And if you've played the whole The Room series, those games added a Lovecraftian twist. This game, as with Doors: Paradox, just jumps from style to style. This box is Celtic, this box is Tesla, this box is Japanese, this box is Aztec. The sound is very good, but as with Doors: Paradox, you won't miss a thing if you play the whole game on mute. The puzzles are easy. Like, except for a couple, really easy. Like, click this and it solves itself easy. If it isn't incredibly obvious what to do, you just haven't found the right piece to slide open yet. All the way back to Myst, there have been games with beautiful gadgets that couldn't possibly work, with little sense of who built them or what they are other than arbitrary machines, with little world building that isn't just reading notes. But Myst had characters and a sense of threat, presence, loneliness, mystery, and --as a game -- increasing difficulty. This has none of those elements. But I can't down-vote it. It's just too pretty and tactile, too satisfying to spin and click and crank. It manages to be even shorter than Doors: Paradox -- it took me 4 hours -- with even less variety of toys to play with. No vampire castle, no Blade Runner neon world, no music or arcade theming, which ought to mean that they traded those things for a persistent world. They didn't. But it's a toy, and there's no sense in complaining that a toy isn't a different toy. I just wonder if there's anyone contributing to these games who could actually write a narrative and integrate puzzles into it.

One of my favorite puzzle games I have done. Its nice to be able to lean back and just use my mouse for all the interactions.

好玩

Gioco bello, anche se in 4 ore l'ho finito. Come qualità si avvicina alla serie The Rooms. Insomma, bello, consiglio di giocarlo e di aspettare ad acquistarlo che sia scontato.

Having player Doors: Paradox, I was really looking forward to playing this one. Each puzzle existing as it's own level, it's a game that is easy to pick up for a brief moment and leave alone for later. With hints and skips in puzzles, your progression isn't halted by your mental exhaustion or frustration either. With so much effort spent on making the graphics look so good, it's almost a shame that the camera movement is only focused on solving the puzzles and that there's no free roaming around, but I'm otherwise content with my four or so hours of entertainment that I got from 100% completion.

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~

Puzzles aren't super hard, but really satisfying atmosphere, design, and sound effects.

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.

Шикарная, красочная игра, отличные головоломки

jogo curto e divertido para passar o tempo.