Logicality

Игра которая займет у вас пару-тройку часов времени. Очевидно что автор вдохновлялся The Witness, но головоломки намного проще и их меньше. В целом по скидке можно взять - любителям такого жанра должно зайти.

To short. To simple. Boring.

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.

The Witness but on a strict budget and therefore not playtested at all. Not only is the map an incoherent mess and you can jump up mountains but not over waist high fences. The main offender are the puzzles which leave no room to learn anything about the logic behind them: You get them or you do not get them. Also, props for a very specific game design achievement: Most puzzles use only four buttons but even this feels extremely tedious.

This game is kind of like a love letter to the witness. Some of the puzzles are cleverly designed but some of them just... aren't. For me, the main reasons I won't recommend are it's length and it's climax. The final puzzle is hard, but it doesn't require any sort of "aha" moment. I tend to run through these games quickly, but still, 10$ for two hours is not great. If you can get it on sale, by all means play it, just don't expect your socks to be blown off

Great little game, definitely got my brain ticking. Pretty art style too. Highly recommend for anyone looking for a chill but brain straining puzzle game.

Good puzzle game. My brain is melted.