Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon

i love the spider and all the things u can do

This is actually a pretty boring game, I was surprised since it has positive reviews. It's actually really tedious, not much to it at all. Cute idea though, just wasn't much of a first impression, I only played about 5 minutes though. Looking at the screenshots it looks like it's pretty much the same thing all the way through but I don't know for sure. It was a cool idea for sure, just wasn't much fun.

Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon by Tiger Style is a third-person game where you are a spider. (Warning for those with arachnophobia...but you are a small and cute spider.) Your goal is to spin webs, eat insects, explore, and maybe solve the mysteries on the Blackbird Estate. I heard about this game as some Looking Glass Studios designers worked on it. This is a fun game, but your investment level will depend on how much of a completionist you are and if you're more into catching insects or solving puzzles. The controls of Spider are simple. You move with WSAD, jump with the left mouse button, jump with silk with the right mouse button, and zoom out with Z. That's pretty much it! But Spider offers a number of different incentives--there's a board listing all the insects you've eaten, online leaderboards showing high scores on each map, secrets inside the maps, lots of achievements, and mysteries to solve in each area of the estate that will unlock a new spider species. Spider also has four different weather settings (clear day, rainy day, clear night, or rainy night) that can match your real-time weather. (I disabled the weather location and online leaderboards and am not a completionist.) Eating insects nets you points and increases your silk thread count. The mysteries remind me of old-school games like Myst where, unless you have a fantastic memory, you really need to write things down on pen and paper. There's also an assumed knowledge base--the first mystery requires reading treble clef musical notation. Normally I don't like replaying maps multiple times, but since most of the maps are short and there are different weather cycles that lead to a different insect populations, I didn't mind it as much...at first. The game shows you which maps you've missed things in with a question mark by your score instead of a check mark. Spider looks great with many details that are easy to miss. The level and insect design is also strong, with a variety of locations and species, and sound effects fit well. There are only a few insects that attack you, but those red wasps can be frustrating! You can die, either from running out of silk and not eating or environmental traps, but you just restart the level. On the negative side, the music is an unpleasant surprise. I'm used to it now, but I did not like it at first and didn't feel like it fit the game. Moving from a web onto another surface often isn't as smooth a transition as I'd like. It's also easy to get turned around on what 'right' means in a specific instance since you can walk on ceilings, walls, or anything except glass; level transitions don't help as they sometimes change your location (for instance, from the ceiling to the floor). I thought Spider would be one of those 'play 1-2 levels and then do something else' games, but I found myself playing for up to an hour straight. However, once I unlocked all areas, replayed a few levels at different times of day, and solved three of the six mysteries over my 12 hours of game time, I just lost interest and haven't started the game in weeks.

Loved playing the mobile version of this game when I was a kid on my iPod touch. Still a great game.

I'm Lachlan official Aussie and I rate this game good. 10/10 VB's

At first it might seem to be a child's game. It's actually a challenge, its packed with clues that you will need to accomplish a few of your task. The game makes it a bit more challenging with its ability to go by the moon phase, and your local weather, this makes it a little difficult, also the weather isn't always accurate, but you have options to change the weather and time. So if you can't stay up late, you can adjust the time and play anyway. I have it on my PS4 and my laptop. I've accomplished collecting the death head moth, and all the insects in the hidden cavern beneath the well, so I know it can be done, and by the way, you wont see the well on the map till you finish all your task. The well is the final challenge, but you can play it over as many times as you like as long as the moon phase code stays the same. I'm still working on the Equilateral trophy, got almost all of them on my PS4, some of the sneaky hidden trophies are extremely difficult to find, you have to think outside of the web! Try every nook and cranny, even if you have been there before, go back and look again! Its worth a go! Good Luck!

神

Never knew it would be satisfying to be a mystery solving spider.