Tips for beginners: Press Down when standing still to eat or drink or fill a bottle. If you would like, edit the save file, or install mods to get regen/bags/perks. Also, you won't be able to tell "3" from "9". Noita is probably supposed to be hostile to everyone, hardcore players and beginners alike. Unlike Terraria, Noita is all about destruction. Unlike Risk of Rain, Noita is slow. One misstep and you die, erasing hours of progress. Random luck makes or breaks a run, like a slot machine. Enemies have perfect aim, feeling like virtual rope jumping. That being said, the world is vast and the magic combinations are endless.
What I expected: The internet loves this game so much, sounds fun. What I got: Regretted playing in the end. MINOR SPOILER ALERT The 1 trick: What makes the game novel is the sense of being watched. Your actions are choices and choices have consequences. MORE SPOILER ALERT The bad: Much of everything else is lackluster. The puzzles, the controls, the maps, the pace, the graphics, the dialogs. Determined to be a good guy and not hurting anyone? Your end-game reward is a freaking bullet hell boss that takes hours to beat. Moral of the story? No idea. Thou must be a perfect person to the whim of all NPCs or else hell ya go? That will be too much of a sermon. The game contains a ton of easter eggs though. I'd rather wish the creator spend energy on the basics instead.
No save points except at the end of hours-long chapters, no keyboard shortcuts like in The Silver Case, sluggish controls made of using arrow keys to rotate a tetrahedron or polyhedron "keyboard", monotonously knocking door to door in large buildings as "investigation", having to repeat dialogues a lot because you can't tell when they have finished. I enjoyed The Silver Case but would prefer watching The Matrix to this sequel.
