Lightmatter

I liked it. It's a short but brilliant puzzle game. The voice acting and writing is good and funny. There are multiple gameplay mechanics that are introduced individually but slowly combined to form harder puzzles late game. I highly recommend it if you liked games like Portal or The Talos Principle.

분위기는 포탈, 퍼즐은 탈로스 법칙을 의식한듯 하다. 빛과 그림자라는 요소를 추가했지만, 그것은 소재일 뿐 이 게임만의 강점이 되지는 못했다. 두 개의 명작을 섞은 결과물이기에 게임으로서 나쁘지는 않은 편.

Ok, no era exactamente lo que esperaba, pero terminé muy satisfecho. La referencia a Portal en una de las cámaras de prueba estuvo genial. Hubo momentos en los que me costó darme cuenta de mis errores, pero así es como se aprende, ¿no? Buen juego.

love this game. It has a very good story that kept me interested the whole time, and some VERY excellent puzzles. the puzzles very much scratched the same itch as portal, just with different mechanics. would definitely recomend, i enjoyed the game alot. i didnt mind the portal references since they fit into the story well and made sense for virgil to say.

[This review was written immediately after completing the game for the first time.] A love letter to the Portal games in the sweetest and most kind way while doing something completely unique in gameplay gimmick, making it the classiest type of tribute; wanting the player to feel similar to how they did while playing those games while perfectly carving out its own identity to stand on its own. Beautiful. I had added the demo for this game to my library because I saw the screenshots and thought the art style was beautiful - then proceeded to *completely forget about it for years* (forgive me, devs!) until I randomly finally had some time to kill. Absolutely adore how small the game file size is; fast to download and not a pain to make room for. It was great to pick up and play; invisible checkpoints are EXTREMELY well done and generous, never making me feel like I'm wasting time on failure. Due to the simplicity of the gameplay mechanics, if I took a break from the game it was fast and easy to re-examine the current puzzle and resume; I have short-term memory/attention issues, so I'm especially grateful for this. <3 Game appeared completely flawless in programming. Didn't run into any glitches or softlocks even when I was trying to find 'em while frustrated over a puzzle (lmao). The difficulty curve was perfect. Started easy and slowly got harder - took a brief break in difficulty to introduce a new mechanic, then combined all previous mechanics to up the difficulty again. Chef's kiss. Like Portal, the characters initially come off as simplistic cartoonish caricatures and end with incredibly charming, gutwrenching depth. The voice you will hear the most - Virgil - is up there with the narrator of The Stanley Parable for me; I could listen to him for hours, absolutely fantastic talent. But where there is blinding light, there is at least a little darkness; I found Ellen's voice really out of place - I think her VA would do better in an action or anime game, but it felt a bit strange for a character who seemingly was supposed to be more down-to-earth than Virgil. Overall her performance was just fine, but took me out of my immersion a bit. I found the fast movement controls a bit jarring for such a slow-paced puzzle game, but they were fantastic in one specific level. And overall... I wanted more! BUT Its length is perfect for a casual puzzle game and I would expect no more - simply, the devs did such a good job that I crave a sequel or endless DLC. I may never have enough. Absolutely one of my most favorite puzzle games, if not one of my most favorite games of all time. Absolutely baffled me when I discovered later that not only is the dev team incredibly small, they created such a quality game that barely anyone has played!? This is an injustice in the world - it is now my life mission to recommend this to every Portal fan for the rest of my life. Dev team, if you see this, I am rooting you on with all my heart!! AHHH

Probably the best Portal-like game I've played other than the Portal games.