Magic Flute

On the surface, [i]Magic Flute[/i] seems like a simple puzzle game, however, once you begin to play you’re met with beautiful music and striking imagery. The story is based on the opera of the same name by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The visuals are inspired by director Amon Miyamoto’s production of the opera which was in turn inspired by video games, using multimedia projections to bring the story to life. All this being said, you do not have to be a fan of opera, Mozart or even know anything about the story itself to enjoy this game. It’s a good stand alone interpretation of the original piece. A young prince named Tamino finds himself lost in an unknown land being chased by a giant snake. He is rescued by three witches then meets Papageno, a bird catcher. After this brief introduction, the story gets underway. The pair meet the Queen of Night, who gives Tamino a magical flute and sends the prince and the bird catcher on a journey to rescue her daughter, Pamina. The game follows the story of the opera, it is filled with adventure, plot twists as well as romance. The story is skillfully told through narration and cut scenes as you play each level of the puzzle game. The game has thirty two stages of puzzle fun to explore and three characters you can play as; Tamino, Papageno and Pamina. The basic game mechanic is moving blocks to help a character reach the exit in a level. The levels are 3D so sometimes it takes looking at the problem at different angles to figure out to succeed. As to be expected, the game becomes more challenging the higher the level, introducing different aspects like crumbling platforms, ladders and new enemies. The game can be a bit hard at times but not in a frustrating way. You’re treated to splendid music as you play the game, as to be expected of a title based on an opera. If you enjoy classical music then you will find it easy to immerse yourself in this experience. There is nothing bad I can say about the audio in this game, it’s top notch. As mentioned before, the visual are based on Amon Miyamoto’s production of the opera, everything is larger than life while also being simplistic with clean lines. It gives the game a very modern aesthetic which works well for a video game. This may not be a game for everyone, [i]Magic Flute[/i] is a unique puzzle game telling a classic story. It’s calming and good to play when you need a break between other games. I highly enjoyed the experience, especially the music and how nice it made me feel. Even at full price it is affordable and it also has Steam achievements. I recommend picking up this title if you wish to try something different. [h1]Usagi’s Rating[/h1] [list] [*]Must buy. [*][b]A good game to buy.[/b] [*]Only buy if on sale. [*]Mediocre. [*]Avoid at all costs. [/list] [code]For more recommendations and reviews on our favourite up and coming quality games follow [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/LotsOGiveaways]Lot's O Giveaway's[/url] group curations [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/LotsOGiveaways#curation]here[/url]![/code]

Logic puzzle involving shifting blocks around limited numbers of spaces. Would be a decent game if not for the timer. You can solve the puzzle but if you don't do it in a predetermined time limit, you have to do it over, remembering all of your steps. Logic puzzles and timers don't mix well.

My first time attending a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute was something of a defining experience, though the reasons have less to do with the play than they do this particular performance and my…anatomical development at the time. Around halfway through a large dance began (what the actual scene was I couldn’t say), during which roughly a dozen women stripped off their jackets as they performed a line-dance in only sports bras. My mother was appalled, but being myself a sheltered, hormonally overrun preteen, I began to pay significantly more attention to a play I had been nearly sleeping through moments before. It certainly wouldn’t be the most scandalous encounter I’d have with my burgeoning feelings of sexual attraction, though it seems oddly fitting that one of my earliest experiences would involve The Magic Flute, a play which, in many ways, is itself about sex. Mozart may have wrapped that fact within a family-friendly fairytale coating, but ultimately nearly every key plot point can be linked to sex and attraction, and the implications Mozart chose to make about them therein. Tamino’s love for Pamina is almost entirely based on physical attraction, and he himself is saved from the serpent of the first act on account of his good looks. Monostatos’ character is effectively a shell of unrestrained sexual urges, and his downfall is in some ways a bigger condemnation of premarital relations than his near assault of Pamina (The Magic Flute is nothing if not a sexist product of its time). Act 2 even features a scene in which Tamino and Papageno are sworn to silence, lest they be led astray by the women seeking to mislead them. It’s all a bit of a mess when viewed through modern eyes, but that has done little to curb The Magic Flute’s popularity. How exactly does this wrap around to Magic Flute the game? Well, in most ways it doesn’t. Though it shares its name, characters, and music, LabLike’s block sliding puzzler shares little thematic ground with Mozart’s opera. Magic Flute is far less interested in exploring the romantic elements of its source material than it is in adapting its scenes (“adaption” being a very generous designation) into tile-based logic puzzles. I hesitate to say that Magic Flute actually shares the same plot as its progenitor, as its narrative is so thinly told that even being familiar with The Magic Flute I struggled to follow it. Some of Magic Flute’s incoherent storytelling may stem from it being in large part an adaptation of an adaptation, influenced as much by Mozart’s The Magic Flute as Amon Miyamoto’s video game inspired retelling of it, from which Magic Flute takes its low-poly art design and Neo-Toyko setting. Magic Flute is easily among the most creative revisions of the play that I have witnessed to date, but it strays so far from the original that at some point it is hard to say if the elements it does borrow from The Magic Flute are warranted or justified. Much of these concerns fall away while solving Magic Flute’s puzzles, being themselves so abstract as to create a suitable distance between their designs and the bizarre echo of a past work that exists in the game’s cutscenes and narration. LabLike hasn’t reinvented the sliding puzzle, but their reworking of it is suitably engaging, if clumsily implemented. Magic Flute’s style allows its puzzles to succeed without an abundance of complexity or variance. They leave little impression, but the act of successfully navigating through the mazes you construct by shifting various types of blocks around is entertaining in itself. The fun is lessened when Magic Flute asks you to navigate multiple characters through a single level, though, as the single input interface allows for an astounding amount of error, as the same button used to move is also used to change characters depending on where you click. It isn’t a game-breaking issue, but it caused me to fumble around and flub solutions often enough that I began to truly detest the game’s minimal control scheme. Accounting for only the first act of The Magic Flute, it seems safe to say that LabLike has more planned for their tiny offspring of a renowned work. And I’ll be happy to see it, even if what is currently here is more intriguing oddity than anything I would call a suitable first exposure to The Magic Flute proper. Magic Flute almost certainly will not stick with me the same way my experience watching the play did, but I enjoyed it enough to hope it stays in my memory well enough that I’ll remember to return when its second act arrives (which at this point is not seeming incredibly likely, but I am keeping my fingers crossed). [h1]You can find more of my writing on [url=http://kritiqal.com/2016/08/29/magic-flute-takes-mozart-to-neo-tokyo/]Kritiqal[/url].[/h1]

Świetny pomysł na połączenie świata gier komputerowych z operą. Co prawda będzie to przygoda nie dla każdego, ale myślę, że warto grze dać szansę. Zagadki logiczne są bardzo ciekawe. Narrator dodaje klimatu, a graficznie wygląda całkiem dobrze. 32 poziomy powinny starczyć na 4-5h rozgrywki. Moja ocena to 8/10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW3T_hIZhrY

不值一玩, 我全破了 1. 故事超差, 小學生水準, 人物全部是突然出現的(包括主角和第二主角), 最後竟然還說這只是第一章, 待續 2. 遊戲性超無聊兼簡單, 拉地板舖路, 幾乎所有關卡能1分鐘內完成, 可想而知有多簡單 3. 既然這麼簡單, 竟敢弄個"超過30分鐘完成一個關卡"的成就!! 4. 無法全成就, 因為有BUG, 有一個成就無法解鎖 5. 在討論區5月已有無法解鎖成就的文章, 完全沒有官方回應 (整個討論區沒有任何官方人員回應過任何討論!)

Nice, even thought quite short, logic game. Story is based on Mozart's opera "Magic flute". You can follow adventure of 3 main characters, mostly Tamino, but also Papageno, his companion and Pamina, his truelove. Music is very subtle and graphics, however simple is very good. For 32 levels there are new mechanics introduced all the time, so gameplay in not repetitive and in no case boring. Levels themselves are quite simple, each to be finished in 1 to 3 minutes, except the last one, which is more complex and can take up to 10 minutes to be solved for a first time. It's a good fun game.

timer is bad :-(((( please give me the possibility to switch off the timer!

https://youtu.be/fWz9zc2LGe4 Minor issues with screen resolution and sound balance are not enough to pull this block sliding puzzle game below a recommendation. The abstract art style and frequent injection of new mechanics keeps this simple formal from getting stale.

Very simple puzzle game: move block to reach the exit...

블록을 드래그(터치)로 이동하여 길을 만들어 목표 혹은 목적지로 향하는 게임입니다. 가볍게 만들어졌기에 가볍게 즐기기에 좋습니다. 모바일버전도 있는듯 싶으니... 아무래도 영어다 보니... 스토리는 모르겠지만... 컷신은 상당히 잘만들어 진거 같습니다. 음악은 모짜르트 클래식이라고 써있지만... 음악을 몰라 클래식이란것만 알거 같고, 현재 ACT1만 있는 상태입니다. ACT1이라도 32 스테이지이니 나쁘진 않지만... 얼리엑세스도 아닌거 같으니 후에 어찌 될지는 모릅니다. 분위기 있고 가볍게 즐기실 게임을 원하는 분은 추천드리고 위치 상관없이 즐기실 분은 모바일 버전을 추천 드립니다만 PC로 해보니 시간에 관한 스테이지 및 터치 위치, 시간에 관계된 도전과제로 올클리어는 까다로울거 같습니다.