Collect Call

İşbirliği ve keşfetmeyle ilgili bir bulmaca platform oyunu.

I appear to be a shadow A silhouette that presses levers Does anyone really know Why we take on these endeavors? I call the phone booth to get some advice But to tell you the truth I would like to talk to them twice I go to the passcode There are only two digits, two choices? Even though it was never showed to me from the phone voices The computer tells me lore Of the past prior As I keep always finding more I would really like to jump higher There is a box of the ground A square on a plate A blue cube has been found! Used to open up the bridge gate There is a doppelganger duplicate copy He thinks he is cool matching my moves But actually is very sloppy He doesn’t improve my groves But now there is a formidable puzzle Four buttons, two shadows, and a box Twenty platforms is a lot to guzzle Much harder than a two digit lock After trying for half an hour My patience has turned sour

Игра "Collect Call" - атмосферный хоррор, затягивающий своей ретро-эстетикой и нарастающим чувством паранойи. История, рассказанная через пиксельную графику и звуки старого телефона, создает ощущение изоляции и беспомощности. Сюжет развивается медленно, но каждое принятое вами решение влияет на исход, заставляя нервничать и сомневаться в каждом действии. Геймплей прост, но эффективен: вам нужно отвечать на звонки, анализировать информацию и решать головоломки, используя телефонную книгу и окружающую обстановку. Со временем становится ясно, что за вами наблюдают, и игра превращается в напряженную кошки-мышки с невидимым преследователем. "Collect Call" не пугает скримерами, а давит ощущением надвигающейся угрозы и безвыходности. Любителям психологических хорроров и ретро-игр определенно стоит обратить на нее внимание. Финал может оставить вопросы, но именно это делает историю запоминающейся.

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Collect Call is a puzzle platformer that requires cooperation from yourself, to yourself. It’s a time paradox game! As you play the game, the story is laid out over terminals and phone calls with yourself, or somebody who looks and sounds like you. The game play has you flipping switches and using your ability to warp back in time. It mainly operates as a reset, with the option to get around some obstacles, or bring back a heavy stone to trigger pressure pads. There is also some weirdly tricky platforming early on that I couldn’t get past. I figured I’d take a break and try out the level editor, but there is no documentation on how to make levels, well, almost none, but turns out you need a third party app to edit levels, but I couldn’t figure this out either. I went back to the game and realized you just have to make a super tricky jump across the gaps, pixel perfect style. The developer seems to enjoy making puzzles obtuse and difficult, an achievement even calls this out. I like the art and story of this game, but the abusive nature of it is rather tedious. Everything from the level editor, to the slow and complex puzzles seems designed to troll. You don’t solve puzzles so much as you endure them. I tap out when making a mistake forces you to watch the whole, slow process all over again. A fast forward option would help this, but the time gimmick should help reset this, but it doesn't. Still a solid free title, but only if you have some extreme patience. Check out the full video review on youtube.com/ShotGaming