Primordia

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cozy sci-fi click n point adventure

My dear Primordia: A really engaging storyline, combined with fantastic ambientation and voice acting, delivers a memorable post-apocalyptic, robotic narrative. I really loved the story; as a huge fan of this type of narrative, it was not hard for me to be delighted with devout robots quizzing me about the gods/humans/creators from the past. I also enjoyed the quirky side characters and really appreciated the way the story develops; especially the city part was fantastic. My only critique to this game was that I had to search quite a few times for the answers to certain puzzles, I understand that in this genre of point and click games you sometimes have to spend quite a bit of time hovering your mouse and clicking everything to see if something works but in my opinion a lot of puzzles should have been a bit more hinted or aproached differently to facilitate gameplay. All this being said, and considering that I felt frustrated while I usually tend to enjoy difficulty in games, it’s probably a bit too much. Again, I wish puzzles were approached in a different way, especially because I was really into the story, and having to look up the answer or brute-forcing combinations of items in your inventory ends up de-immersing me afterward, but for justification, I know that this difficulty was the standard in 2012 for point-and-click games. I want to replay it again, and even with its faults, I think this game is full of soul and one that I rank in my top 50 for sure.

Loved this game. The world feels really tangible, especially for a point-and-click. Great story, great message.

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After having bounced off playing the game for over a decade I can finally say that Primordia is a pretty good point and click adventure game. Not without flaws or awkwardness, but interesting components and with a lot of additional parts that the genre is usually missing. Primordia has a neat setting, simple to understand but with enough background and connectivity to give it weight. The game has actual puzzles that can't just be brute forced, alternate solutions to some problems if one way or another doesn't work out, dialogue for hints if one gets lost or confused. Fully voiced, to give that extra layer of life. A genuinely pleasant surprise.

It starts off as the best adventure game I've ever played. Unfortunately, once you get to [spoiler]Metropol[/spoiler] it gets overwhelmed with typical adventure game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and becomes so plot heavy that I almost didn't bother finishing it... Feels rushed, really. The artwork, however, is consistently great throughout, and [i]most[/i] of the voice acting is top tier. The worldbuilding is fantastic with the perfect amount of tongue-in-cheek.