A fun and funny game (love the comments the robots make as they die), but it desperately needs a manual. Near as I can tell, none exists.
This game is intended to introduce the adventure game genre to people who have never seen, played, or heard of one before. Most people who buy games from GOG don't fit that profile. This is a great game to play with a child, or an adult who doesn't play computer games much and adventure games not at all. It is NOT a great game, nor even tolerable, for experienced, dedicated gamers to play alone. It's too short, and has no replayability. It is very beautiful, but $9.99 is too much to pay for the beauty alone. Get it on sale, and use it to get someone you love interested in adventure games. I found some of the puzzles very tough. The hint system is interesting; it consists of blinking circles indicating where clicking will make something happen. There is one place in the game where one of the hints can be misleading; it shows where to click if you have the goggles, but if you don't have them, nothing useful happens there. That one should have been turned off when you don't have the goggles.
This isn't a review, but rather a bit of gaming history trivia. The cover of Softporn Adventure (which you can see at 1:02 in the video) shows three topless (actually completely nude) women sitting in a hot tub. The hot tub belonged to Ken and Roberta Williams. The woman on the right was Roberta Williams! Check the wikipedia entry on "Softporn Adventure" for more details.
The camera mechanism takes a little getting used to. It's a very innovative game idea! It's basically a puzzle game with a little bit of physics (if you drop a cube, it will rotate and bounce off of stationary objects) in a side-scrolling platform environment. The puzzles are challenging, but fair. Nice soundtrack. The graphics are beautiful and the animation is smooth. Supports gamepad controllers. Give it a try!
For more info on the game, check out the Kickstarter project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64409699/ftl-faster-than-light I backed it, and it's very cool to see it here on my favorite game site! I didn't realize when I backed the project that it would be delivered to me through a GOG key.
