TL,DR: A rewarding challenge for moderate and experienced puzzle players. Many interesting dynamics, and a lot of hours over 100 levels.
May be too challenging for casual or beginner players.
While I had doubts about a game with no guide and few reviews, U27RA R3ZONANC3 turned out to be a very well-made and challenging game.
I bought it on strength of the graphic style and didn't expect much. While this is a sokoban type block pushing game, there are a number of dynamics added that make it much more interesting than a typical block pusher.
You play as a Neko (cat) and have to position yourself and several other blocks in the level in order to shoot out a bolt that has to hit any number of targets around the board.
You only get one shot on each level, so you have to set the board up so that this one shot hits all the targets. The bolt shoots in 8 directons out from your character, and can be reflected around the board by different types of tiles.
The targets are different colors, and your character can also be made different colors, shooting bolts of that color.
Additionally, there are yarn tiles of different colors that will shoot out bolts of that color in 8 directions, but only if they are hit by a bold of that same color.
There are paw icon tiles, also different colors, that can change the color of a bolt that is shot through them, but only in one direction.
So if you are blue, standing to the right of a yellow paw tile, that is itself to the right of a yellow yarn tile, you will shoot a blue bolt, one of them will pass through the yellow tile, turn yellow, then hit the yellow yarn tile, shooting yellow bolts in 8 directions.
These bolts can hit a yellow target and knock it out, or can travel on to hit other yellow yarn tiles, or have their color changed by other paw tiles.
So there is a fair bit of complexity for a sokoban type game. There are also grey yarn tiles that block your bolts and prevent ease of movement around the board.
Every set of levels also has a short sequence of banter between your character and his brother, a red Neko. This provides a bit of comedy and extra character to the game.
There are some hidden achievements, plus achievements from completing levels.
Most of the levels are about lining up the tiles to shoot a bolt from just hte right spot to hit all targets. Some levels follow a more classic sokoban challenge of 'moving too many boxes around a room without getting stuck'.
Overall I found this more interesting than a classic sokoban due to the variety of each level and the thought required to line up the correct shot.
There are no timing challenges and really nothing unfair. The only thing I would add, as in many of these indie puzzle games, is an undo feature.
However, as this isn't the type of game with long sequences of pushing blocks and getting them stuck in most levels, the undo is only a big deal in a few levels. Most levels are about deciding where to place the tiles, getting them there is a secondary challenge. (with the exception of level 97 and a few others)
There are no enemy pieces that move on their own, so you don't have to worry about getting hit by anything and having to restart.
The music is catchy synthwave.
There is a night mode and a color blind mode. Some of the visual effects with wavy lines might cause trouble for those with vision problems, though I found them fine.
Overall really surprisingly complete and challenging game for the low price.
