Disoriented

There is no door.

Disoriented. thx/

TLDR; echochrome (2008) + Prey (2006) + Tetris (kinda) I bought this Unity engine based game on Christmas day of 2018. It was less than a buck, so money well worth it! What I didn't expect was it'd take me 7 years to finish it. Now just like tossing a lit match into a Gym building (the amount of flammable class 3 deodorant that whiffs out the front door from meters away is just astounding), I just so happened to start up a few more puzzle games that I've been unable to finish since then. *looks at The Swapper and shivers* Granted I left it alone for years. But the last game that similarly took me that long was The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on the original Game Boy. Disoriented has 30 levels. 3 of which I found quite difficult. So I used the same tactic, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8h5Owjxomg]I took a break[/url]... I've said this many times before, but I highly encourage people not to look up a walkthrough, especially on YouTube nowadays. It's not really cheating but it'd defeat the point of playing imho. If you can't pass a game, then you just can't pass it. No different to a Rubik's Cube you can't solve. If you decide to look online to see if there's an easy algorithm to solve it, does that mean you solved the Rubik's Cube by yourself? The only exception is if there are obvious bugs. Some games do have level breaking bugs! But Disoriented is so minimalistic, you'll know if something is not quite right. Personally I didn't have any bugs. Most of the time you're walking from point A to B. Nothing fancy. In fact I can guarantee you, overthinking is what can land you in trouble. When Prey came out in 2006, it was like Vodou magic. People would walk through portals to different areas, up gravity ramps, see levels tile away and tile back in. Unfortunately it was a bit of a niche. Even today I'm still not entirely sure how they did the gravity ramp. If I had to take a guess, I'd say it's some kind of 3D volume created within the default map that purposely had different gravity applied to it. But even then the transitions were really smooth on each bend. You can refer to my [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49k-96WG2M0&t=110s]video here[/url] to see some of this mind-bending action! Now I'm only speculating here, but I don't think that's what Disoriented did. Would be nice if someone could confirm this. But I reckon when you move onto a ramp, what's actually happening is the entire map is rotating around the player position. Which gives the illusion of orientation-based gravity. Either that or the camera on the player object changes along with the direction of gravity, which I think would be harder to program. To back this up, I believe the echochrome (2008) level design (basically a white background) would make this harder to see, along with the fact there aren't any enemy entities or loose objects. Lastly, if you're falling through levels in any video game, it usually means your CPU decided to skip a beat when calculating collisions. Something that could get tricky with rotating (I assume) levels. Nevertheless, to reduce the risk of that you simply need to upgrade to a more powerful CPU. But of course as newer games become more complex, this will be an ongoing factor. Overall just a fair game, but severely underrated.

Enquanto eu jogava senti como se fosse um precedente ao Manifold Garden, pela questão de ter puzzles que envolvem a questão de perspectiva e manipulação da gravidade, a aplicação dessa ideia foi feita de forma bem simples, mas vale o preço. É um jogo curto e te apresenta uma visão de jogos de puzzle diferente das apresentadas até então, o grande espaço em branco ajuda muito pra te fazer sentir realmente desorientado.

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Disoriented, against my expectations, turned out to be a minor masterpiece. A platformer that plays on a fear of heights (combined with dizziness), that at times requires very careful jumping, and constantly shifts gravity such that pretty much any surface you see will become important at some point. It's also a tricky puzzler, with elements such as switches that rotate given surfaces to help lead you elsewhere, buttons that change the environment from light to dark to reveal hidden parts and delete other ones, twisting surfaces that take you to unexpected places, and teleporters that take you to the other end of the map. The difficulty in the game lies with keeping track of which areas each button changes, and making sure you do them all in the right order (getting the teleporters facing the right way at the right time is a particular challenge). The only objective in each level is to get through a portal or door at the end, but in several levels you will of course have to ensure the portal is rotated the right way, and that you yourself are oriented such that you can walk through it (on one occasion, I solved a puzzle in a different way by falling through the door rather than walking through). To help you, you can assign a key to change the camera in order to view the map from afar, seeing more elements than you would do from first-person, but the game cleverly doesn't let you see all of the level from any one position, so the challenge is always there. The game, with its gravity mechanic, might remind you of other games such as Manifold Garden, although in this one, if you fall off the map you are just taken back to where you quicksaved. Be careful, if you do the elements wrongly you may end up in a dead end with no way back to where you need to be, so you'll need to restart the level. Some levels took me just a minute, others took me up to half an hour: the difficulty curve is unpredictable on your first playthrough. Given its price, Disoriented is well worth a look and carves its own niche in the puzzle games category. If you're scared of heights, be thankful it's just a videogame! If you don't like platformers, this may not be for you, but puzzle fans will enjoy the concept, solid execution and worthy challenge.