Cosmic Top Secret

Cosmic Top Secret is interesting. As the store summary says, it's a documentary game about a woman (T) trying to discover her parents' past as Danish Intelligence workers during the Cold War, but it's not particularly academic. The narrative is quite personal and close to T and her family, with their relationship sometimes overshadowing the Cold War topic itself - whether this is good or not depends on your taste in documentaries, though I personally found it quite endearing. Otherwise, the game is a mixed bag. The cardboard cutout collage visuals are striking and the sound design is generally strong, but I found the music quite grating at times. The gameplay is... not great. It's something of a collectathon platformer(?), but the movement is [i]remarkably[/i] crappy. You click and drag to roll your character in the direction of where your cursor is pointing, which causes minor freakouts whenever the cursor brushes across an object between the camera and where you want to go (a constant problem when trying to navigate in tight spaces). You right click and drag to move the camera, click to interact, and flick the mouse to jump. It's all mouse-driven, and as far as I can tell there aren't even optional keyboard bindings for anything except the jump, which is worse than a good flick and which can't be chained in mid-air. You also can't move the camera and move yourself at the same time, and you need to click on the character and drag away to start moving. It's a truly awful control scheme, but there aren't any platforming challenges that make it more than a general annoyance. Enjoyable overall, if not without some jank.

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просто уникальный исторический игровой экспириенс, посвященный холодной войне, мне очень понравилось, да и как 3д платформер игра выглядит потрясающе, я доволен

Cosmic Top Secret menestyy dokumenttina ja videopelinä, sillä se käyttää pelinkulkua tehokkaasti rohkaisemaan pelaajaa viemään tarinaa eteenpäin ja löytämään enemmän asioita sen surrealistisesta maailmasta. Itse pelasin näppäimistöllä ja hiirellä ja ohjaus oli paikotelleen kankeaa. YouTube-videon mukaan ohjaimella meno on sujuvampaa.

weird, personal, and touching. secrets and memories. explore and collect stuff

A nice, short puzzle that gives a very personal perspective on the Cold War era Overall, this game by far exceeded my expectations. It has a unique art design and some good puzzles and the levels are quite different. It is not a hard game, but pleasing and relaxing to explore. The main strength is following the journey of a woman getting to know her parents better. It has an interesting backdrop of secrecy about the Cold war, but really, the relation to the parents is more important. No serious bugs encountered, only a few graphic glitches. Re-play value is probably little. I spent a lot of time exploring the levels to collect everything and completed in about 10 hours. Just following the main story, the game can probably be completed in half the time. While a lot of attention is paid to historical accuracy, some artistic freedom still is present. Depending on your mood, you may be amused or annoyed to find [spoiler]a Danish fighter pilot on a reconnaissance flight in a soviet MiG-23![/spoiler]

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Extremely unique platformer type of game with tons of movement freedom, but I feel like it does its job so well to the point that I don't think I should be peaking at its contents! Jokes aside, this is such a neat way to tell a life story along a string of memories. It feels very personal, but it lets me stay curious at the same time.