Tangled Up!

The core type-of-puzzle concept is a nice one. The art and animation is cute and fun. And... it works? But it doesn't have that satisfying "click" of "oh, *that's* how..." - at least not in the first 16 levels, which is all I did. Take this with a grain of salt, because I've been learning over the last year or two that I'm actually less of a fan of pure puzzle-games than I thought - I like there to be some element of narrative or world exploration. Still, I found some of the design decisions here a little baffling: "hint" seems to be "show you exactly how to solve this puzzle", which isn't really what I think of as a "hint". You can't access the trickier "Red/Blue" version of each level (where you have to get each star with a specific charge) until you've beaten the less-interesting generic version. There's this latency between allowed clicks so that even if you can see the exact sequence you need to perform, you can't just *do* it, you have to wait this flow-disrupting moment or two to click and then wait for the animation and tiny delay before you can click again. You can earn spins on a wheel to get hints (which are so potent I don't want to use them) and ?lives? and... more spins. "Clicking a button, waiting for an animation, and finding that you've earned the ability to do the exact same thing again" isn't exactly the height of fun. (But at least for all the levels I played through, you can just ignore the Wheel, so at least that's good?) I also wonder why there wasn't a simple "# of moves" counter, with a "lowest moves" kept track of for each level. Even with no requirement or benchmark, it would add an optional form of challenging yourself to be efficient, which might have given the earlier levels a little more interest - as is, it's often really easy to isolate the charges and move one at a time, which is effective and a little boring. I'd have liked even a mild incentive to be clever with moving both at once.