Me when the Stanley Parable and Portal: :-O
The first part of the game is almost flawless with great puzzles and flow to it. Perhaps, they were too easy to solve but I didn't mind it. The second half is what kinda ruined the experience for me. The logic of puzzles suddenly lost its integrity and instead of actually keeping this natural flow, the developers decided to throw in a couple of puzzles, in which their solution was almost random. This is where the game started to get boring for me. In the final part of the game, I was just walking mostly solving unimaginative puzzles while the game was trying to compensate it with its visuals. I barely cared about the message tbh, mainly because it is in itself not the most original one, and the delivery struggled because of the conflict between game design and gameplay.
I believe this game and its concept had tremendous potential, but just tripped over the pretentious narrative.
Grade: 6/10
The first part of the game is almost flawless with great puzzles and flow to it. Perhaps, they were too easy to solve but I didn't mind it. The second half is what kinda ruined the experience for me. The logic of puzzles suddenly lost its integrity and instead of actually keeping this natural flow, the developers decided to throw in a couple of puzzles, in which their solution was almost random. This is where the game started to get boring for me. In the final part of the game, I was just walking mostly solving unimaginative puzzles while the game was trying to compensate it with its visuals. I barely cared about the message tbh, mainly because it is in itself not the most original one, and the delivery struggled because of the conflict between game design and gameplay.
I believe this game and its concept had tremendous potential, but just tripped over the pretentious narrative.
Grade: 6/10