DaGreenMachine
2022
I agree with the sentiment that the game is a bit too easy, but the story and the world building is wonderful and well worth the price of admission. It has just enough game mechanics to keep you engaged and make you have to decide how to spend your time. I loved it.
Honestly, it was really boring and just not for me. But it was free and an awesome April Fool's gag, so they get a bump up to 3 stars.
2022
I've seen enough.
Ultra repetitive jank and then they throw in extremely unfun action sequences. But ultimately I quit just because of poor level design.
There is one puzzle repeated as nauseam in the game: put the blocks / lasers / bridges in the last spot they need to be in, then the 2nd to last, etc until they are in the first spot they need to be in, then execute by going through the puzzle and rewinding things to hit switches in the proper order. Changing how annoying it is to set up this sequence or how many different elements are needed does not make it a more interesting puzzle. It just makes it a longer more tedious puzzle.
Frequently you would only have access to part of a puzzle room at the beginning and can only predict the last couple places the objects will need to be. In these cases, you need to do half a puzzle, realize you didn't place all the objects properly to begin with once you can ACTUALLY see everything, go back and reset and start setting it all up again.
This is made even worse by janky puzzle setups where the physics can easily send an object in the wrong direction and force you to reset the whole puzzle again due to no fault of your own. There was an early puzzle that I had to do no less than 5 times because a block kept bouncing off the switch. Was this playtested at all?
If you like wasting hours on completely uninteresting puzzles in what is probably the worst Portal ripoff I have ever played, this game is just what the doctor ordered.
Ultra repetitive jank and then they throw in extremely unfun action sequences. But ultimately I quit just because of poor level design.
There is one puzzle repeated as nauseam in the game: put the blocks / lasers / bridges in the last spot they need to be in, then the 2nd to last, etc until they are in the first spot they need to be in, then execute by going through the puzzle and rewinding things to hit switches in the proper order. Changing how annoying it is to set up this sequence or how many different elements are needed does not make it a more interesting puzzle. It just makes it a longer more tedious puzzle.
Frequently you would only have access to part of a puzzle room at the beginning and can only predict the last couple places the objects will need to be. In these cases, you need to do half a puzzle, realize you didn't place all the objects properly to begin with once you can ACTUALLY see everything, go back and reset and start setting it all up again.
This is made even worse by janky puzzle setups where the physics can easily send an object in the wrong direction and force you to reset the whole puzzle again due to no fault of your own. There was an early puzzle that I had to do no less than 5 times because a block kept bouncing off the switch. Was this playtested at all?
If you like wasting hours on completely uninteresting puzzles in what is probably the worst Portal ripoff I have ever played, this game is just what the doctor ordered.
2018
It is a sudoku-like logic puzzle game. The puzzles feel very random and computer generated rather than handmade and as a result difficulty seems to vary wildly between levels. It is still quite enjoyable as a relaxing thing to do to pass the time on your phone.
2013
Perfect puzzle game for the phone. Fun quick levels. Interesting mechanics that get introduced at a nice pace. Highly recommend.
2019
Brilliant in many ways but it had a bug where it wouldn't launch properly on my computer and also it was really difficult and my brain could never quite get in groove with the mechanics.
2020
Puzzles are a bit too easy but what really kills this game is the pacing is ULTRA SLOW. The movement and animations during gameplay and story parts between gameplay are painfully slow as if to drag out the length of the game.
2007
It is an old game and its age shows throughout. The puzzles are brutally hard and just not worth it IMO.
2013
Wonderful block pusher style puzzle game. Great art and fun mechanics. Absolutely worth playing for puzzle game fans.
2022
Masterpiece. Levels are super quick and finding the perfect route through them is the right level of challenge and very rewarding. Story is insanely bad but sorta wraps back around to being good again.
2021
Criminally underplayed. A wonderful tough but fair puzzle game.
2023
Puzzle game masterpiece. Anyone who loved Stephen's Sausage Roll or Snakebird should pick this up for sure
2022
It is trippy and unique and I liked it. I definitely think it was a bit too hard for me and I was not going to put in the hours needed to actually become great at it and win.
2023
It was quite fun. It was really short and mostly easy but I thought it was a great use of an evening.
2022
It was so poorly made in so many ways. The graphics and camera controls felt like a Gamecube game. It lagged frequently. Every single minigame was trash, especially picnicking / sandwich making. The interiors of most (but not all!?) buildings were just menus rather than actually rendered locations.
HOWEVER, the classic Pokemon collecting and battling were fun, even top notch. The enemies used smarter strategies than usual. The finding and catching Pokemon in the open was a huge step up for collecting. There were way more bosses to fight than usual which I thought was an improvement. It was easy but it is a kids game after all. The story was above average.
Overall, pretty good. Glad I played it. Definitely not one to skip if you are a fan of the series. Worth ignoring all the technical issues.
HOWEVER, the classic Pokemon collecting and battling were fun, even top notch. The enemies used smarter strategies than usual. The finding and catching Pokemon in the open was a huge step up for collecting. There were way more bosses to fight than usual which I thought was an improvement. It was easy but it is a kids game after all. The story was above average.
Overall, pretty good. Glad I played it. Definitely not one to skip if you are a fan of the series. Worth ignoring all the technical issues.