[b]5/10[/b]
Simple tileswap puzzle with cute capybara images.
[b]What is it:[/b] A simple puzzle game in which you must swap tiles to restore images. When starting a level you get to see the target image for a couple of seconds, but there's no way to see it while solving it. There are 20 images and 3 difficulties, easy with 2x2 tiling, which sometimes means you can solve it just by swapping one pair of tiles, medium with 4x4 tiling, and hard with 6x6. Each difficulty has a time and a move count challenge, which is trivial to beat on the easy difficulty, often possible on the medium difficulty, and might take a few tries on the hard difficulty.
There's not much else positive to say about the game, it's simple and with cute images. If that's enough for you, go ahead and buy it. But I expect more from a game, so on to the negatives.
The user interface is not that good. Finishing a level only has a Next button, but I'd like Back and Replay too. There's no easy way to turn fullscreen off. No keyboard controls, not even for the menu navigation. The images taken one by one are cute, but they don't make sense as a whole: sometimes the capybara is fully clothed, sometimes it's bare, doing human activities, or just being in nature, in one even playing football among humans. Two different images where it's painting, one naked one clothed. And the images are AI-generated, so very little effort was put into that. Although there are the time/moves challenges, there's no incentive to try to meet them. The achievements are rewarded when finishing a level on any of the difficulties, which means that playing the game on the easiest 2x2 mode allows you to "finish" the game and get all the achievements in two minutes. There are just two sliders for audio settings, nothing else.
[b]What would make it better:[/b]
Keep track of met challenges on all difficulty levels; on each level display a 3x3 grid with icons, one row per difficulty, one column for each of solved, time, move count. Remove the current achievements, replace with more meaningful ones: beat all levels on each of the difficulties, beat timer in 5/10/20 levels on hard difficulty, beat move count in 5/10/20 levels on hard difficulty, beat all levels perfectly on each of the difficulties. Add Back and Restart buttons on the level end screen. If not playing on the hard difficulty, maybe add a button to replay on a harder difficulty. Add more settings: fullscreen on/off, relaxed mode (disables timer and move counter), enable displaying the target image. Add a progress reset button. Don't show the splash screen again when clicking the Home button. Add a Pause button (same as the Esc key). Add support for keyboard/controller both in the menus and while playing the game. Remove the two icon buttons when already on the main menu. Fix the tooltips that appear when hovering those buttons, they show up outside the screen.
[b]How hard is it:[/b] Trivial to easy.
[b]How long is it:[/b] 20 levels, 3 difficulties, between 2 seconds on easy and 2 minutes on hard per level.
[b]Image design:[/b] Cute, well suited for the tile size as puzzle images, but they don't really make sense.
[b]Quality:[/b] Lacking, but not really that bad for such a simple game.
[b]Worth the price:[/b] Not really, maybe 50%.
[b]Most positive aspect for me:[/b] Cute images.
[b]Most negative aspect for me:[/b] Too simple.
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