Boxes: Lost Fragments

OK, I liked this game. The few hours it took to complete it were mostly enjoyable. What is great: * Sound design. This is just my thing, but all the clicking and shifting and grinding of gears felt very satisfying. * Graphics and design. Very clean, very detailed, very well fitting into the chosen themes. * Writing. I thought the Victorian style was nicely done and the way the story unfolded without spoiling anything was pretty cool. * reminds me heavily of The Room series What is not so great: * This is not really a puzzle game. It looks like one, but in my whole play through I solved maybe 15-20 actual puzzles. The rest of the game was basically pixel hunting. Clicking everywhere to see what else is supposed to be interactive. To make things worse, I dot stuck on some actual puzzles because I could not figure out how the pieces move rather than actually having a problem solving. the puzzle. And a lot of "puzzles" have clear solutions that you just need to find. So sometimes I would look at something and decide that I am missing some solution I haven't seen yet. Only to later come back and find out some pieces I thought were stationary actually move. The pet peeve (minor spoilers ahead): * So you have a Victorian style story. Creator and creation, Frankenstein and his monster and all of that. In this context, all the oriental and Hellenic themed puzzles make sense, Victorian scholars were fascinated by all of this stuff. Electricity and steam power themed puzzles make sense. These were cutting edge technologies of the time, of course a Victorian inventor would know and love those. But why the hell is there a 20th century casino themed puzzle box?! WTF?