Posted on: November 5, 2018
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Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 228 Rezensionen: 5
Simple but solid
This is a short (3-5 hour) game of puzzles revolving around what order to use various words to remove obstacles mixed with brief action sequences. Both are fairly simple, the puzzles are obvious and direct, but there's often a small twist that elicits a "Why didn't that work/Why did I die?" followed oh, "Oh, missed that, I get it now." Mostly satisfying. The controls are a little wonky. Everything's centered around the left-hand, so trying to move, aim, and shoot can be difficult. Fortunately the action sequences are forgiving enough it doesn't really matter. The only time it was every a problem was one sequence trying to shoot an overhead enemy in a specific weak point, and hitting up+fire seemed to randomly fire as it should, not fire at all, or fire after a delay. I was a little put off my the tone initially. At first it's not clear if the games going for a gory absurdist surrealism, a fantasy parody, or a somewhat grim fantasy story. There's a certain amount of tonal clash and the first scenes don't come off that well, but after the initial town it decides it wants to take itself seriously, and more or less succeeds. The story is somewhat barebones and cliche, but the focus characters get just enough development so you can like or dislike them as appropriate and care about the stakes. Overall I don't regret the ten bucks I dropped on it.
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