Obduction ®

Great game from Cyan!

Form me, this is game is complicated and sometimes you have to find your way by guessing. It's not usually a logical decision.

I have played the game twice - once at release and now I gave it a second chance and I really tried to like it but eventually I got frustraded ... again. The design of the world and especially some of the puzzles is what makes whole the experience tedious. Imagine a big world with great scenery - very linear, long walks where you can interact with just... 10 levers/machineries but to get to some of them you have to backtrack to the beginning a few times. Or a puzzle where loading screens take more time than solving the puzzle - you see the solution but you are forced to do some extremely tedious actions which bring zero quality to the game only frustration! And every time after I did such a puzzle I was thinking this would be the last one just to end up in another place where to progress I needed to backtrack to the beginning just to flip a simple switch and then come back again! Majority of my time in the game was spent walking... And since I vaule the puzzles the most in these games I can't say I had fun walking around(or watching loading screens)! The story was okay, the music was very good - reminded me of the old Myst music. I often had issues reading some of the notes - they were in such bad shape I could not read that easly. I had to use external sources to read many of the notes/books. The camera menu which was part of some of the Myst games is also great addition but it is poorly implemented. The access to it is extremely slow - no shortcut button to open it right away.

One of my favorite games of all time. Captured the wonder of coming into a new world, an interesting exploration and puzzle mechanic, and just a fantastical time. I adored this, and am playing it for the third time.

I went more or less halfway through the game. I like the premice, the general atmosphere and the vibe. Lots of backtracking when you're musing around trying to think how you could solve this and that, but eh, well. What I didn't like is at some point, puzzles become a backtracking with loading screen combo. Iterating on a puzzle configuration becomes a tedious chore very quickly. Backtracking to iterate on a puzzle is not ideal but why not, but if you add a loading screen on top of that, you're pushing it. And at some point, two puzzles in a row are just that. Thanks, but no thanks.