Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians

Brings refreshing, only lack some more levels and better story, This game is worth money and time. Blend like this mix some logic and arcade elements plus great music and graphic.

This adventure needed more QA. I got softlocked and had to restart a chapter on more than one occasion. The first happened after I'd just done the first timing puzzle, so I approached the next the same way and got stuck. At multiple times things just break, usually something that needs to activated or toggled doesn't change its state and you end up having to restart. If restarting just to make progress wasn't annoying enough, there isn't much more incentive as the in-game extras also don't work. I assume they are pictures of concept art; they don't work for me. Given that I've tried to get into this game 3 separate times and have always managed to bore myself into quitting after a couple of hours, perhaps it's obvious why this review is so negative.

Nice sound and graphic: 4 stars. Unplayable for my kids (aged 10 and 12): 1 star. The game-play is linear, no possibility to turn back or choose an alternative. There are many unnecessary save-points, but in hard passages they are missing. Therefore you have to replay hard passages frustratingly often and the easy parts become boring. There are no difficulty or quick-save options. The controls are hard to handle because you have to bypass every single obstacle manually what becomes enoying when you are under time pressure. The game generates save-points even when you are stuck, e.g. if you return to the organ without the second organ-piece in level 3.