An Adorably Deadly Menagerie
HIGH The Arachnae boss fight.
LOW The lack of a hint system.
WTF Uh-oh, (SPOILER) has figured out he’s a videogame villain.
Professor Lupo And His Horrible Pets Review
Tag: puzzle games
Iris.Fall Review
Follow The Black Cat
HIGH Exploring the pages of a pop-up book.
LOW The bridge puzzle.
WTF How is it that ‘Take On Me’ isn’t starting right now?
Q.U.B.E. 2 Review
Standing In Valve’s Shadow
HIGH Creative puzzles and striking visual design.
LOW Why does the framerate stutter in an empty room containing nothing but moving blocks?
WTF How come space scientists keep getting abandoned on planets full of puzzles?
The Station Review
Love At First Contact
HIGH The view from the glass-floored space station lounge.
LOW The way the game cheats to hide its big secret.
WTF I guessed the ending roughly 90 seconds into the opening movie.
Q.U.B.E. 2 Preview
When I wrapped up the original Q.U.B.E., I didn’t see where a sequel could go. There was a giant cube, it was going to destroy the earth, some heroic astronauts put a stop to it via an elaborate series of jumping and physics puzzles, roll credits.
I massively underestimated the developers, because it turns out that there’s a huge amount of story left to tell,and Q.U.B.E. 2 outdoes its predecessor in every possible way.
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games Review
Going Down With The Ship
HIGH 999‘s epic finale.
LOW Getting a bad ending because I’d skipped over key dialogue in my rush to see a new path.
WTF Wait… she’s one of the main characters of Virtue’s Last Reward? Did not see that coming.
GNOG review
It’s A Silent G
HIGH The adorably savage log puzzle.
LOW It’s over already?
WTF So I’m helping a thief rob people? That got dark.
Slayaway Camp Review
Impalement Is Rarely This Good
HIGH The back-of-box movie synopses.
LOW The feeling of spending 100 coins to unlock a puzzle solution that was completely obvious in retrospect.
WTF There’s a Gelatinous Cube.
Io Review
No Moss Gathered
HIGH Flying across the entire map while zoomed-in tight and hitting the bullseye.
LOW Any time I’m asked to ride a gear over lava.
WTF The maze of doom.
This Is Not A Review: Linelight
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Linelight, available for PC and PS4 and developed/published by My Dog Zorro.
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