Really like this game: charming, charismatic and first-class puzzling. The challenges/unlockables are a nice touch too, both they and the overall puzzle difficulty felt really nicely weighted. Only minor gripe I have is the massive variation in platforming (as opposed to puzzle) difficulty through the levels: most levels require no skill at all, but then there are one or two sprinkled throughout the game that are really quite tough. If you'd rather play a slightly more polished game without this issue, I'd recommend the sequel, "Tetrobot and co", but in some ways this idiosyncrasy makes it even more lovable to me. A real favourite.
Puzzle games are all about the level design. I've played plenty of games that had interesting mechanics but were either too easy so you never had to play around with them, or so hard that you got stuck and furious. Mousecraft got it spot on. Decent difficulty curve, enough to make you think, not enough to get fed up and go play something else. Loved it.
This is a really clever idea, and a game I really wanted to like. From the point of view of the skill, talent and inventiveness that went into this game, it's easily worth 5 stars, and you'd better believe that I'll be buying any future releases from these guys. However the squishiness of the controls, and the amount of grinding involved mean that I really wouldn't recommend the game CellarDoor ended up making this time. Because it's not a "real" Roguelike (and believe me, I cheer the slaughter of any and all sacred cows when it leads to better games), how far you get seems to be based a lot more on how much gold you've accumulated over previous runs than any development in player skill. The result (if you're as bad at the game as I am) feels like an awful lot of grinding for progression. Try it if you want to experience something new and intriguing, but I don't think this is "ready for prime time".
