The Gateway Trilogy

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The first two Gateway games (The original ones uploaded to flash sites back in the day) are absolute must plays. Gateway 1 is essentially just a tutorial for Gateway 2, but Gateway 2 is brilliant, a masterpiece of ludonarrative harmony. I don't want to say anything about the story because it's something you should just experience for yourself. That being said, Gateway 3 adds nothing, it is a bombardment of non stop dry meaningless similar puzzles in a conceptually interesting but very much underutilized environment. It had one section of "gameplay" (you walking around repeatedly going through screen transitions) that was somewhat gripping only because I thought it was building up to some great story section. It wasn't, the ending is abrupt, unsatisfying, and as far as I can tell, weird for weirdnesses sake. The remaking of the first 2 games is fine I suppose. They don't change too much, thankfully. I'm not sure but I think the music was swapped out in Gateway 2. There was one track that's literally haunted me my whole life since I first heard it years ago, it gave/still gives me instant chills, but I don't think that track is in the game anymore. HUGE loss imo. That might be wrong though, the game is very buggy so perhaps the music just didn't play correctly or perhaps I simply missed it somehow (I don't think that would be possible, it's a VERY striking piece of ambient music) Speaking of, performance is terrible. This thing is still running on Adobe Flash all these years later and it hurts. It will be a stuttery finnicky mess regardless of your computer power. It's not a matter of processing power it just inherently sucks, the old website versions ran much nicer, which is strange 'cause that ran on flash too obviously, not sure what the problem is. This is a widespread issue, so it's definitely the game and not me. All in all, this bundle is not worth it for the new game or even for the remasters. While the remasters are arguably slightly superior in some ways to the old versions, the performance issues drag everything down below original quality. The ONLY thing that you could justify picking this up is the Developer's Commentary, even that is somewhat disappointing though, as the developer used text-to-speech for all of it. I was looking forward to hearing the dev speak passionately and transparently about parts of the creative process, behind the scenes stories, etc. and while you get some of that, it's all conveyed to you through text and the apathetic droning of the TTS bot, taking much of the magic away. Here's my recommendation to you, go download flashpoint or some other flash game archive, and play the original 2 Gateway games for free. They're fantastic, and you are missing nothing by avoiding 3, in fact the randomness of 3's halfhearted attempt to connect with the first two games actively makes the story worse in my opinion, just pretend it doesn't exist. If you REALLY want to hear the dev's commentary and are intrigued to check out Gateway 3/the remade versions of 1+2, then at least wait for a sale or something. 10 bucks for this is highway robbery. I have a lot of respect for the dev as they've made some really amazing stuff. Gateway 2 of course, but I've also heard amazing things about The Dream Machine (not played it yet). This, however, is a total mess and misses the entire point of what made Gateway 2 so incredible.

Quirky one-of-its kind game. Minimalist graphics, simple plot. Enjoyed the creepy/mysterious music, it went well with some puzzle scenes. Ah, the puzzles, not bad in normal mode. My puzzle fav is still part II. Part III was kinda trippy-- Ending made me go .. "What just happened?". And it did lag after continuously playing for 4 hours. Just a matter of saving the game, quitting & coming back to it. I also believe it depends on your PC specs? Anyway, I'd recommend this if you want to enjoy some simple mind-solving games with some background story to keep ya a little bit entertained.

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The most notable change in the first two games from their respective free versions is that most of the dialogue and/or what sound like distorted Dalek speech. And honestly, that change doesn't work to the games' benefit. It doesn't really enhance the atmosphere much, and sometimes it removes useful feedback.

I know this game from back in 2006 before flash died. And when I had a talk with a friend about Roadblock today I said that i knew I had seen those model before, which make me search for an image on Gateway and than I say: Gateway triology. 'Nice, they have a third instalment?': I tough, but since it was flash back then I tough I just missed it. So, found it on steam and I LOVE IT. Remembering all the puzzles was fun and the end was mindblowing. Surely give it a try

Got to to the second set of light puzzles on The Gateway 3 and gave up. Not because they are hard, they really aren't. It's just a tedious mechanic, which really isn't enjoyable. The thought that I had another 8 or so screens of hoping I don't miss click and mess up the pattern I'm working on just isn't fun. It's not puzzle solving, you have proven you can solve the puzzles after the first couple. It's just repeating a the same thing to make the game longer. 1&2 were good though.

Great little puzzler! Took me about 3 hours to beat. Graphics are nice, the puzzles not too complicated, and there's even a storyline in there, which wasn't obvious to me at first glance.

I don't really understand what's going on with III, but Gateway I and II are still classics.