GNOG

1/10 [h1]TL;DR[/h1] It has decent sound design, has nice animation and a beautiful color palette. However both the controls as well as the visual feedback of your input is straight up terrible and often misleads you in thinking your input for the solution is wrong. It felt more like a hidden object than a puzzle game -------------------------------- [h1]Pros:[/h1] [h2]Overall look and feel[/h2] [list] [*] A lot of effort went into the sound design and animation [*] Color palette is nice [/list] -------------------------------- [h1]Cons:[/h1] [h2]Gameplay[/h2] [list] [*] Input controls are bad. No keyboard support for interactions [*] Controls are not always clear and sometimes confusing - flipping pages should be the same movement as opening the book cover [*] Not always clear what you can interact with because the entire game is so vibrant and flashy. Parts may just become available for interactions after other actions have been performed WITHOUT changing any visuals or with a delay of such change of multiple seconds .... This often provides the feedback: "Your solution is incorrect", while in fact it is not [*] Other times you have to be very precise with your input to be validated as the correct solution, while the level design suggests an entirely larger input range as valid [*] Levels basically need to be solved in a specific order - solving parts of the level correctly, not getting any feedback, thinking something must be wrong, just to find out that other parts had to be solved first is a terrible game design [*] Can't rotate the level to properly see the interface or hints [*] It's more of a hidden object game than a puzzle game. The solutions are hidden and there is no other way for solving a level [/list] [h2]Bugs + missing QoL[/h2] [list] [*] Achievements require to do the correct thing slow enough. If you spam the correct thing they won't trigger .... [/list]