The Paradixion: Son's Room

垃圾，全是小游戏 不是华容道就是拼图，我为什么不去玩别的呢？

It's fine. Reminiscent of the Rusty Lake game style (perhaps too much). Some puzzles did not make much sense to me

Since all games in the series are created with the same visual style, interface, and gameplay, the same review works for all of them. The only change is the location, and more importantly, logical puzzles that make you think. The gameplay revolves around clicking on the screen with a mouse. Nothing is highlighted or marked, so you’re encouraged to click on anything that stands out. Because the art style is minimalistic, each location contains only essential elements and rarely includes distracting details that might pull your attention away from solving the puzzles. Clicking on a hotspot brings up a close-up view, and from there you can often interact with another object for an additional close-up. This allows you to pick up items and store them in your inventory or manipulate elements such as buttons and switches. Nearly every interaction requires a clue, so you can’t simply click randomly and expect to stumble upon the solution. The entire experience centers on logic puzzles that must be solved in specific steps. Since I played the latest game in the series first, I was a bit overwhelmed by the very tricky puzzles. Fortunately, this first game is a lot more accessible and fits more into the standard experience you can expect from a puzzle game of this genre. You will still have to think about the solutions, but you won’t have to look too much into deciphering clues because they are simple. Some of the puzzle are classic, such as sliding puzzle or following a pattern, but if you spend too long at them, the game offers you a hint that makes it easier. There is quite a lot of item usage similar to traditional adventure games, but the mechanic is simple. You activate an item in your inventory with a click, and it remains active until you click it again, making it easy to test it on different objects. Since you’re limited to a single room per chapter, you won’t have many options. This first game will also introduce you to the game’s details and lore that keeps repeating throughout the series. There’s the hand that comes out of a mouse hole and exchanges items with you, a sheep that apparently had a lobotomy, and a dark little creature that might be connected to a family who went through a tragic event.

Son's Room is the first of (currently) three Paradixion games, all of which I have enjoyed playing, particularly as I became familiar with their macabre graphical & puzzle style (which also owe a great deal to those of the Rusty Lake and Forgotten Hill games). Son's Room, and its successor Laboratory, share a common story/lore, while Christmas (the third game) seems more standalone. There is little or no guidance in these games, and in all three I have had at least one moment where I haven't had any idea about what to do next - but I felt that the restricted scale of the puzzle environments minimised the frustration of working out how to proceed.

여러모로 아쉬운 게임. 나쁘진않으나 퍼즐 난이도가 들쭉날쭉함. 러스티 레이크 처럼 표방은 하고 있지만 무언가 메인 스토리가 없이 진행되는 느낌. 60 ~ 70 % 정도의 완성품. 훙분히 해볼만한 게임은 맞으나 아쉽다.

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