ITRP _ Volatile Vertex

Yerçekimiyle oynayan, kafa yoran bir bulmaca platform oyunu. Mekânı farklı açılardan görmek ve mantıklı hamleler yapmak gerekiyor. Hızlı aksiyon arayanlar için değil ama bulmaca sevenler için keyifli bir deneyim olabilir. Ücretsiz olması da güzel bir artı.

First person spacial puzzle (one room, platforms, gravity change). The game is a bit heavy-handed when it comes to player's comfort and the learning curve. You are thrown in to the deep end with next to none explanation of what is going on. While one may say it is part of the experience to figure things out, for a while it was the experience of "I am walking in circles and I have no idea what I am doing". Couple of puzzles were a bit too diffcult (honestly, there were two key pieces I would have never guessed how to get to without the walkthrough) - but maybe that's just me. Also, 3d first person platforming and logical puzzles is not the best genre combination - and it is a regular source of frustration in this game. Author clearly know that and tries to mitigate the issue - but it's still there. Overall, a solid puzzle game, especially coming from a one-man team. Will seriously test your spacial resoning. Not novice-friendly, though.

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It's a game about platforming, but it has terrible movement physics. Very frustrating to try and beat. Otherwise a cool idea. I love the way it looks and sounds. It's worth downloading just to walk around for a bit.

5/10 A 3d puzzle where you switch the direction of gravity. Good: - free - great soundtrack - interesting core concept of the game to switch gravity in a 3D level and use ledges to reach places So-so: - textures used for the walls have high-contrast elements. While these are great for screenshots, in the game they make the level unreadable. The bright baked-in lights in these textures look too similar to actual edges of walls, cubes and other geometry in the level. So, walls feel like they have more geometry to them that there really is. I mean, the puzzle is already difficult, but this visual mess makes it even more difficult, and in a bad way - camera rotates too slowly, even if you set max rotation speed in options - English is pretty shaky Bad: - at game start you find yourself in a big level which is way too difficult for a new player. Combined with the additional difficulty of simply reading the level's geometry, it ends up just prohibitively difficult. How it should have been instead: the game should have small chambers, like in Portal or Portal 2, where you learn the basics of gravity switching on simple setups. This game does have 1 room with one cube where you switch gravity once to be able to proceed. However, that's not enough for learning. - in the very first corridor, it's hard to see the narrow passage in the left wall. I simply ran forward and thought the game is bugged. A sign (like e.g. "<") would be helpful. Or maybe the passage should be wider. Or there should just be 1 corridor with 1 left turn. Overall, the game seems to have an interesting premise. The music is great and the visuals are pretty good. However, the dev probably never playtested it, so onboarding is pretty poor. If you are very patient and like to learn by trial-an-error, this game may be worth a look. But lack of the dev's experience with teaching / introducing new concepts makes it just too unfriendly to the general audience. That's a neutral vote, 5/10. [table][tr][th][i]I'm a Steam curator, you can [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43946907-Friendly-Nerd/]follow me[/url][/i][/th][/tr][/table]

Игра "ITRP _ Volatile Vertex" оставила после себя смешанные чувства. С одной стороны, концепция головоломок, основанных на манипуляции гравитацией и пространством, действительно свежая и захватывающая. Первые уровни интригуют и мотивируют к дальнейшему прохождению, а визуальный стиль, выполненный в минималистичном, но ярком ключе, приятен глазу. Однако, ближе к середине игры, сложность начинает резко возрастать, порой переходя в неоправданную хаотичность. Некоторые головоломки кажутся скорее результатом случайного перебора, чем логического мышления, что разочаровывает. Управление, хотя и достаточно простое, временами ощущается неточным, особенно в моменты, требующие высокой скорости реакции. Кроме того, игре не хватает нарратива или хотя бы какой-то истории, что существенно повлияло на общее погружение. Без какого-либо контекста, мотивация игрока несколько ослабевает. В целом, "ITRP _ Volatile Vertex" – интересная, но не до конца реализованная головоломка, которая порадует любителей сложных задач, но может отпугнуть менее терпеливых игроков. Потенциал у игры безусловно есть, но требует доработки баланса сложности и добавления элементов, удерживающих внимание.

Мой мозг расплавился, пока решал эти головоломки