The House of Da Vinci

The first few chapters were nice enough, but as the game progressed, the rooms become larger, puzzles less cohesive and in some cases they just feel random or unsolvable. If you can't find where to use an item in your inventory, don't worry... you'll get hints: "*item* from my inventory definitely fits somewhere", followed by "I think I saw a likely place for the *item* somewhere around here". Thats just annoying commentary, not a hint. -_- Some puzzles get repeated several times in a row and its tedious rather than a challenge. This all together with the mechanics, making it in some cases almost impossible to reach the object I am trying to focus on, means I unfortunately can't recommend it.

Most of the puzzles were elementry, The puzzles are mostly the same idea behind them. You try to fix one thing but that alters another. The main issue is in the early chapters you would solve a puzzle and it would open something on the other side of the room without a clear indictation that it would happen. I didn't hear or see anything for most of them, It expects you to go back and forth between rooms which is time consuming because it has to do an animation everytime you go to the other room. Most of my playtime in this game isn't actually solving the puzzles, it's trying to find the revealed item or moving around the "map". [spoiler] Spoiler: (Doesn't contain the solution) I wouldn't say the 8th chapters puzzle is difficult, It is just another case of lack of explanation. You have to start up a boiler contraption, you are shown 3 columbs that look like a combination lock and below those there are 3 more combintation locks of sorts. I knew what to do from the start you use a mangifying glass to count how many of each shape are inside some fluid but then you have to go back down to the combination lock and have the numbers in each columb add up to the number of each type of shape there was in the fluid. The Issue, THEY DON'T CLEARLY STATE WHICH SHAPE GOES INTO EACH COLUMB. I spent probably an 20 minutes just looking around for an indicator of which shape corresponds to each columb, I found one of the shapes on the side of one of the fluid resevoirs, but neither of the other tanks had one. Even If they did that doesn't tell you which tank corresponds to each columb. This is the only puzzle I struggled with and once again, It's not because it's hard, It's because they don't give you required information. But hey, maybe I'm blind. [/spoiler] I got it on sale for basically $3 after tax. According to steam I played it for 6.6 hours According to the game I beat it in 4 hours 30 minutes. I would not buy it for the original price of $25, and I won't be buying the next game.