The Magic Circle

Довольно интересная игра получилась. Кто знал, что мне в жизни не хватает черепаховертолета.

This was clearly by people traumatised by an industry, and I'm here for it.

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عمل متذاكي عن تطوير بايوشوك، مثل ما بايوشوك عمل متذاكي عن الراندية.

The Magic Circle is a unique take on a narrative-driven game about making games... or unmaking them. It is flawed in many ways and part of that maybe is intentional, there is a lot of self-referential humor with attempts at reaching for some deeper meaning, which can sometimes be a hit or miss. It was an enjoyable enough experience, gameplay wise it can feel a bit more shallow than the initial presentation would suggest, but it does have a few moments of some clever game design choices.

Thanks for the recommendation Funke

The Game has a lot of meta story in it, which I normally like a lot in games like Stanley Parable or Pony Island, but here it didn't clicked with me and I found the story parts to be rather weak. Nonetheless I liked the beginning and the ideas in it regarding game development, how to change the world and so on. I also think that the artstyle is creative and it was fun to discover the world in the beginning. But I didn't enjoyed the puzzel and the "metroidvania" aspect on how to access new chapters and play the game. Also some functions were pretty confusing and the rather short introduction into the mechanics and the missing chances to test them, made it unnecessarily difficult to get into it. I will recommend it, because the idea is really good and it was interesting for a few hours, but don't set your expectation too high. [b]6/10