Posted on: September 30, 2018
Akalabeth
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1st person puzzles with puzzling story
Puzzle game ala Portal and its ilk except instead of portals this game uses game uses attraction and repulsion (think magnets) between two objects. Objects which either gravitate out from a fixed point, are on a track, are re-moving, shot across distances, etcetera. Overall the puzzles are not too difficult though some are less intuitive than one might think. Some areas are not even really puzzles at all, but more story-driven areas. Performance wise, this game suffers from the same problem as the original Portal in having the game pause between rooms. And just like portal, the game features an elevator between puzzles and yet still there's a pause in the game as a checkpoint is saved. This kind of thing gets really frustrating, with such small environments and an obvious loading area (the elevator), gameplay really should be seamless with zero stops at all. Narrative-wise, it's weird. It's a very familiar story and its conclusion is satisfying, but unlike Portal which had pretty normal story, the story in Magrunner feels like out of left field. That's not necessarily a problem but the game play doesn't really support that story for the most part, particularly in the second act, which honestly just seems like room after room of puzzles with no clear direction of where the game is going. The narrative is saying there's some clear direction the character is moving but movement within the facility seems completely at odds with that. It feels very disjointed. To the game's credit, it comes together nicely in the end adding some new elements of danger to the puzzles which I think could have been introduced earlier. The dialogue is mostly okay, but some of the delivery is off and some of the writing is just odd with the main character in a short conversation at the start of the room, asking say a question, and being met with silence. A lot of conversations seem to end in the middle. Just gives off an odd feeling. Overall though, pretty fun and worth a go
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