Posted on: April 3, 2021
Strix-CZ
Verified ownerGames: 392 Reviews: 54
Refreshingly different masterpiece
Creaks has different mechanics than previous major Amanita Design titles. It's not a point and click adventure (it doesn't use mouse at all), it's a puzzle platformer played with either keyboard or a controller. Now this might feel little weird at first (especially if you're a fan of Machinarium, Samorost or Botanicula and you come looking for something in similar vein) but if you get over the bias of your expectations and allow yourself to get immersed into the world of Creaks, I promise you're in for a treat! While it plays differently, it still features all the usual Amanita Design trademarks - top notch hand drawn art, beautiful animations and hugely atmospheric soundtrack (Hidden Orchestra is one of my favourite bands so I was overjoyed to realize they composed the music for Creaks). The setting is little dark but the overall mood is much more one of a mystery rather than a horror, with many bright (and a some literally heartwarming) moments. It's simply charming! And I loved the puzzle design! The new mechanics are introduced at reasonable pace so that it's fairly easy to keep up with them while the puzzles itself strike a fine balance between being challenging enough so that solving them feels rewarding while risk of getting stuck and having to reach for a walkthrough is next to zero (if you're willing to put some effort in them of course :) personally I think I solved most rooms in under 10 minutes, with the hardest ones taking me around 30 - I finished the game without walkthrough in 2 days). P.S.: Some of the puzzles may look like you need to be fast to solve them - but that's actually never the case (timing is important sometimes but never to the point of forcing you to run from one switch to another as fast as you can without any margin for error) - if you feel like you're not fast enough than you probably haven't found the right solution yet ;)
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