Pan'orama: Prologue

Игра 'Pan'orama: Prologue' – это восхитительная головоломка, сочетающая в себе захватывающий визуальный стиль в духе живописи маслом и медитативный геймплей. Задача игрока – восстанавливать красочные пейзажи, перемещая и вращая отдельные фрагменты картины. Простота механики обманчива, ибо с каждым новым уровнем сложность возрастает, требуя концентрации и пространственного мышления. Особое очарование игре придает успокаивающий саундтрек и постепенно раскрывающаяся история, касающаяся утраты и восстановления. Каждый собранный пейзаж словно оживает, даря ощущение маленького триумфа. Механика "фотографирования" завершенных панорам позволяет сохранить эти мгновения. Хотя это всего лишь пролог, он оставляет приятное послевкусие и разжигает интерес к полной версии игры. Любителям расслабляющих головоломок с красивым визуальным оформлением обязательно стоит обратить внимание на 'Pan'orama: Prologue'. Единственное, что немного расстраивает – малая продолжительность, но это и неудивительно для пролога.

Recommendation is based on the incomplete demo. This is a great chill-type game, incomplete as it is. It is visually similar to Dorfromantik, but after a couple games you'll realize they play differently. While Dorfromantik is based on building progressively larger and larger clusters of perfectly placed different types of terrain, Pan'orama rewards smart placement of tiles, but doesn't expect perfect chains, as the bonus buildings you unlock mostly incorporate different tiles placed together that would negate "perfect placement." Both games incorporate a similar system of decreasing number of tiles, with certain events replenishing the number of tiles, so the general goal is to play as strategically as you can to make your tiles last as long as possible. The tutorial and tool tips are less than helpful in explaining the exact system in Pan'orama's current build, but does identify buildings that feed this system, even if the concept isn't well explained. Putting a tile on the board next to a tile it shares type(s) with raises the value of the existing tile, and there are times that you can tell multipliers are added in considering several tiles at the same time, but the system for this isn't explained either. Periodically you will get Quest tiles to place instead of regular tiles, which start as simple shapes like triangles or straight lines, but get larger and more unusually shaped as the game goes on, requiring more thought for best placement. The graphics are cartoonier than Dorf, which isn't either better or worse, just different. The music is relaxing enough that it's repetitive nature hasn't become annoying over the ~12 hours I've played the game. The game's description implies there will be a freeplay mode in the future, but its current build only incorporates a short tutorial and the standard mode, which I feel gives me about an hour of gameplay, and I typically progress through building 10-11 of the 16 structures, and around 1500~1700 tiles placed (including multipliers) which are the two obvious trackers for your progress through a game. As I've only progressed through completing 10-11 of the 16 per game, I can't say what happens if/when you manage to complete all 16, or if the game just continues on. All in all, it's a relaxing chill game, and it's free! If you like chill games, give it a shot. Even if you don't like chill games, give it a shot, at the price point of free all you're out is 15~20 mins of your time downloading and playing a bit of the game.

5/10

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It is super game. It is relaxing.

Fun for what it is, and would be excited to play an expanded version. The mechanics have a lot of potential.