Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room

a maioria dos puzzles são bons de resolver, se você tem um pouco de conhecimentos gerais claro(matematica, musica, o basico sobre puzzles). gameplay divertida e historia interessante. só alguns puzzles da fase do quarto do vincent que me estressaram pq na minha cabeça nem faziam sentido, mas enfim. to ansioso pro proximo que vai lançar dia 28

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Foyer: clock, annoyingly simple pattern recognition as the final step. Kitchen: symbol math, requires guesswork which is a shame because it's otherwise a good puzzle. V's room: picture order, makes no sense or doesn't intuitively follow from the clue. Recreation: wall panel, has opposite shading from the clue.

Really good experience and very satisfying puzzles, for most of them. Enjoyable for fans of the puzzle genre

직관적이지 않은 퍼즐이 여럿 있음. 기록이 필요한 경우도 좀 있는데, 메모 기능이 없어서 아쉬움

This one just really didn't click with me, to put it mildly. I encountered a lot of roadblocks that felt more like [i]design short-comings[/i] than me being obtuse or struggling with hard puzzles (though there were some moments of that too!). Stuff like the game making it very difficult to see what things in a room were interactable, or there being e.g. three open puzzles in the room, all with 5-digit combinations, and no meaningful clues about [i]which[/i] 5-digit clue goes to each proverbial lock. It really feels to me like this game struggles to communicate information to the player, to the point that even the hints felt somewhat incoherent at times. For example: a row of cabinets in the kitchen might each have a knob handle and be openable by the player... except for one. At the end of that row of cabinets is one that looks exactly the same as the rest, with the same design, color, and handle, that you simply [i]can't[/i] open– and which will only be opened later by solving a puzzle... that has no apparent connection to this cabinet. No symbol on the door, no lock keeping it closed; nothing in the room or interface design to communicate whether you, the player, are engaging with something [i]incorrectly[/i] (e.g. standing too far away to interact), or whether you're trying to do something you simply [i]can't do[/i] in that moment... which leads to a lot of frustrating "is this a puzzle?" sort of moments. I don't mean to say that we need yellow paint here– there will [i]always[/i] be things that click with some people and not others! My point is more that a huge part of a well-designed escape room is [i]good design cues[/i] and [i]coherent puzzle language[/i], and there were a [b]lot[/b] of moments in this game that made me feel frustrated, not because I couldn't grasp the puzzle, but because I didn't understand, and didn't feel like the game was communicating, how to [i]interact with the room[/i]... and for me, that lead to a game that felt a lot less clever than it did frustrating.

https://youtu.be/YoDW5ckll2s Puzzles are far too often linearly connected leaving players stumped when the designer intended order isn't followed step by step.