Somerville

I wasn't worried about it being an easy game, but it turned out to be really boring and monotonous. Which is a shame because visually and storywise it was fun.

Amazing world development and non-verbal storytelling, and gorgeous visuals. Marred by awkward and frustrating controls, occasional insta-death traps, and opaque and nonsensical puzzles. Extremely short.

Sinceramente, gostei bastante do jogo, achei os graficos bonitos, estética agradavel, a história é ruim mas eu não ligo pra história. é um game curto, umas 2-3 horinhas, jogo é bem fácil, ideal pra jogar pós trampo pra dar aquela relaxada.

flailing between jaw dropping scenes and frustrating gameplay. deserves mixed reviews but i loved my time either way. come on playdead, 10 year anniversary of inside give us SOMETHING!

Leider gibt es mittlerweile zahlreiche solcher Spiele. Limbo und Planet of Lana fand ich da deutlich besser. Somerville hat bis auf eins, zwei wirklich interessante und nette Rätsel nicht wirklich etwas zu bieten. Kurzes Abenteuer ohne besondere Merkmale. 6\10

This game is extremely underrated. From what I've seen of negative comments, a lot of it is due to the roots of this game. It's made by some of the same developers of Inside and Limbo, absolute powerhouses of their genre but Somerville is not a part of that genre. Not really. While it does include puzzles, it's not a platformer and I think people just wanted it to be Inside/limbo 2. But here's the thing, if you judge it for what it is, it's a fantastic game! The art is gorgeous, the music and sound effects are genuinely incredible and it features a very well done silent narrative, with plenty of nuance for you to speculate over! To me this game is way more focused on spectacle. Big, bombastic moments of gameplay and story and some absolutely stunning visual effects! I found a lot of enjoyment in this game and I hope others will see its potential and stop comparing it to its predecessors. 10/10

Short sci-fi puzzle game, with incredible visuals and sound design. The gameplay itself and the puzzles are fine, yet not very challenging nor particularly fun. It felt mostly monotonous. What I disliked the most was the ending, though. [spoiler] It is a game about aliens, and in the end, you get to "speak" to them using the color of the different abilities you earned through the game. Depending on what you tell them, the story ends in different ways. But knowing how to form different words is ABSURDLY obscure and it requires you to pay an insane amount of attention to details scattered around the game. I got to the final chapter without even knowing such a language existed to begin with. There are two endings you can get without knowing the language, and another one you could potentially get by accident. Yet the "best" or most positive one is impossible to get without understanding it. This fells extremely unfair because I bet only a very small amount of players got to that ending without a walkthrough, which shouldn't be the case. While I like the idea, it was really poorly executed in my opinion. [/spoiler] While the story is not bad, all of that left me with a bad feeling. I don't think I can recommend people to get this game, but I would encourage them to try it out and checking it out for themselves if they find it on sale and liked INSIDE. For most people though, I am more inclined not to recommend it. Another little detail that I dislike and I think is worth the mention is that yellow is used to highlight basically ANYTHING that you can interact with, which feels a little cheap. The game is very careful with how it looks, yet they decided to splash yellow onto lots of different things in a way that feels extremely unnatural. I know this is deliberate to make the player know where to go and what to do, but there are many different techniques to make this happen in a more cohesive manner.

2/5 stars

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