Logicality

総じて微妙。The Witness風のゲームじゃん！と飛びつくと、小学生レベルのパズルばかりで虚無顔になります。 グラフィックだけは良いのですが……。 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bja9Ig4lLzI

It kinda looks like the witness and plays like it too, to a point. but where the witness took me about 18 hours to complete and I still have bonus puzzles to find and solve there. This took 90 minutes to complete and another 15 to complete all the bonus puzzles. If you want an easier introduction to this type of game, this one is nice enough. But if you're looking for your next challenge after The Witness, you'll be disapointed.

Сначала я подумал: «Фу, это же копия [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/zhareg/recommended/210970]The Witness[/url]!» А потом я подумал: «Как хорошо, что разработчики вдохновляются такой крутой игрой, как [b]The Witness[/b]!» Если [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/zhareg/recommended/1985690/]The Looker[/url] является шуточным оммажем, то [b]Logicality[/b] — достаточно крепкий представитель witnesslike головоломок. Конечно, не обошлось без минусов: [list][*]В большинстве головоломок мало элементов, поэтому в процессе указания предполагаемого решения можно подобрать ответ случайно. [*]Не хватает фоновых звуков или музыки. [*]Карта показывает не всю территорию.[/list] Зато плюсы меня действительно радуют: [list][*]Тут есть карта. [*]Тут можно бегать, а не только ходить. [*]Очень приятная графика. [*]Головоломки не слишком сложные, но и не слишком простые — в самый раз![/list] Готов пробовать и другие вариации на тему, так как эта мне вполне понравилась.

Very decent game in the first person puzzler genre, if a bit short. It took me only 98 minutes to fully complete it along with all the 'difficult puzzles' and get all achievements. I only failed to understand one puzzle of the lot, the one with the pillow, but I accidentally solved it without understanding it anyway. Oh and I bruteforced the last music puzzle because I'm really bad at parsing sounds, the sound zone in The Witness was by far my most hated one. Get it if you're a fan of the genre, but don't expect it to be long.

I was excited to try this game, but I can barely get to the first puzzle. The mouse sensitivity is wild, and as someone who usually has to tweak settings on games for motion sickness, I cannot continue until this is resolved in some fashion. Quite disappointing.

Поначалу загадки кажутся простыми, но некоторые заставляют поломать голову. В особенности, если есть желание пройти игру на 100%. Можно, конечно, пользоваться брутфорсом, но гораздо интереснее понять принцип) Лично я случайно разгадал только одну из головоломок. Огромное спасибо разработчикам и персонально IngaJorn, благодаря которой я и узнал об этой игре.

Let's get a few things out of the way 1. This is 100% a ripoff of The Witness, it does enough that its unique but the visual style and ideas are... eerily similar. Its also worth mentioning that there is a level of jank to this game with the movement and traversal and general visuals that The Witness doesn't have. That game is very well polished as far as visuals and the rough edges go, whereas running around in this made me feel motion sick. I seriously don't know what they did but good lord it made me sick to my stomach when I used the sprint button 2. This might disqualify me to review this game in your eyes, but I feel it gives me a stronger critical lens to look at the game with. I *hate* puzzles. Seriously, I made a 48 minute video essay about Tormented Souls which is just a piece of trash in general, but the puzzles in that game are egregious. Not all puzzles in games are awful, and the closest to fair puzzles get is when the puzzles all follow their own rules throughout the game. Logicality does not entirely succeed in that. 100% the game in the time that I played it, including the endgame content and "hard puzzles" as the achievement calls them. I don't think this game is awful, some of the puzzles are clever and some of the visuals can be nice, but there is most definitely a level of polish that is missing here. A few puzzles in some of the different areas were absurdly obscure, and meanwhile, the rest of the game I flew through. Puzzle games are hard to review from a difficulty standpoint because they largely rely on what the player sees first. What does and does not click with you will largely dictate your experience. While some people might fly through the color puzzle section of the game, I'm colorblind and had quite a few issues (rectified by my chat as I streamed that section) but I was struggling with that part. Other people may have issues with the column section and I breezed through it. I am not recommending this game because you cant get similar games of higher quality with more content for cheaper, and that is all. If this really interests you and you really really love The Witness, sure. Go for it. But, I think it can all be summed up in this one analogy. After beating two of the zones in this game, I decided to go into the tower in the center. Using bunny hops, I was able to jump around ALL OF THE DOORS BLOCKING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP. If I sat there and figured out the solution, I could've done the tower puzzle about 15 minutes into the game. That is what I mean by lack of polish. This is not the worst game, its just not a great one. If you made it this far I would appreciate you following my steam curator page. It helps me grow and continue doing reviews of mostly indies but games in general, and I do my best to provide the best look for prospective buyers. Thanks for reading. [code] Check out my steam curator page for more reviews on (mostly) indie games: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42143664/ [/code]

Хорошая игра, прекрасная игра, жаль короткая. Только вот пустая и в некоторых головоломках я не видел логики... в игре под названием Logicality. Еще игра похожа на предыдущие игры SVGames и The Witness.

Plenty of others have compared this to a more popular game and it's completely true. As a direct comparison, they took the aesthetic and missed the larger point of what made that game good entirely. Unironically the parody version The Looker was a better copy of the spirit of The Witness. On it's own merits, this isn't even a good puzzle game. It's possible to brute force every single puzzle for one. For second, there were multiple instances where the game taught you how to solve a certain type of puzzle and then seemingly threw those rules out the window for the sake of being "hard" (looking at the puzzle from the side instead of the front with no hint to do so in some cases). I'm sure there's some logic behind it, but even after brute forcing a solution sometimes I was just left confused. Thirdly, some puzzles *must* be failed in order to figure out the answer (section with buttons that are only colored when you press them). A good puzzle game should be able to have consistent rules that can be solved without what is essentially meta-gaming or trial and error. You do sometimes have to use the environment to solve your puzzle, but it's so uninspired as it's literally just - did you see the specific set of 4 things we needed you to look at. And in some cases the "difficulty" of that is because there's so much clutter that you're not sure which of them they want you to count (pillars) or what hints at the order you pick (flower vases). When it's not cluttered, it's completely empty. Puzzle areas are pretty much entirely separate from each other with open field between, nothing linking them. There are 6 scattered puzzles outside these zones, but even they are just tucked into random spots on the map with no lead in to where they are. Controls were a bit jank for me, I'd be walking, stop pressing forward and momentum carried forward another step. I'm still not sure why they allowed swim and jump other than it being easier than putting bridges and paths up as it didn't really add anything and allowed for some exploits. For example, you can get onto the final area by jumping and since it's a maze you can just completely defeat the purpose of it being a maze. For being able to swim, I would've liked to see *some* use of the ocean. Instead it's just... empty. It doesn't even look good out there and there's invisible walls eventually. I wish I could leave a neutral review as I can't recommend it at its regular price ($8), but it's hardly the worst game I've ever played. Overall, it's short, puzzles are pretty easy overall, and it's possibly worth picking up during a sale if you enjoy the genre and are starved of content.