[b]malvin's prehistoric adventures[/b] looked like something made in rpgmaker at first, and while it was made in unity, the experience ended up just as bad.
the story's about a bubble-thing called danny, who's a spirit of time about to fail his history exam and repeat the year, so he travels to earth to bug a random kid with his problem. together they go on an adventure through time, not unlike [b]bill & ted[/b], to find some random items from each prehistoric era. the kid does all the heavy lifting, that's why his name is in the title instead of danny's.
after laying down some basics while getting a t-rex tooth from the museum, there are [b]26 levels[/b] (time periods), unlocked in batches of 3, but once you solve them and move on to the next trio, they get locked again. each level has a relic (usually a piece of stone, sign of the times) to be retrieved after solving a few puzzles, often using items from other levels, then you need to talk to danny to finish a level.
there are sliding jigsaws (for lack of a better term), mazes, pushing rocks into holes, simon says, and a bunch of [b]arcade levels or the occasional timer[/b] to ruin things. [b]a skip puzzle option would be nice[/b], as well as a visible inventory to know what you have, though whatever needs to be used will be used if available.
[b]controls are pretty bad and inconsistent.[/b] movement with wasd or arrows, [b]very slow and no sprinting[/b], but only wasd moves the cursor during a puzzle and either space or enter (but not both) is for whatever action is necessary, and with several pieces in some cases it's a pain to cycle through them all before finding the one you want, because wasd is not for selection, it's for movement of the selected piece. no mouse support whatsoever.
'f' interacts, exits puzzles, picks up items, etc. and shift leaves the level immediately, always going back to the first level of the batch, very annoying. no progress lost, but if you press shift while moving, the game goes back to level select and the character keeps moving. and levels have to be quit manually anyway, even after you're done and heard the fanfare, no idea why.
windowed mode and resolutions through the unity launcher, english and russian languages with plenty of typos, grammatical errors and missing punctuation in the former. the graphics are okay, though there's a lot of wasted screen space and [b]no audio settings and a ridiculously small font[/b].
while a kid-friendly time travel puzzle/adventure sounds good on paper, [b]the whole thing is very amateurish and not fun to play[/b], needs a lot of work to be recommendable at any price, let alone what they're asking for. I gave up during the fourth trio of levels with the slippery stones and a bunch of simon says, so I'd say it [b]should take around 3 hours to complete[/b], but you'd better stay away.
