I have three medium-minor complaints about the game
1. The difficulty is quite uneven. There are late game puzzles that are easier than early game puzzles owing due to the constant flood of new mechanics in almost every single world and some of these mechanics don't carry forward that often which is a little disappointing. While the difficulty does ramp up by the end, there are still "tutorial" levels even at the late game that take seconds to complete. I understand why the game is structured as is but this hurts the difficulty curve a bit
2. A third of the Star puzzles are just "chase thing" and another third is "hunt for thing" which makes them not puzzles really. The final third which are actual puzzles are mostly disappointingly easy with one exception which I thought was a little unfair due to a puzzle element being hidden away so deeply I had to actually look up what I was missing. In the same vein, there are additional "triangle" puzzles and these are mostly all easily found if you walk on the paths save one exception and this one is hidden so well that you'd NEVER see it unless you were actively looking everywhere in the level which was annoying
3. The worlds really do get too large and it starts taking way too long to get through them. There's no map either so sometimes you have to hunt for entire puzzle levels which is less than ideal. Wish there was another layer of fast travel unlocked after you open the gates which would have let you get around faster.
4. The post processing lets this game down grievously. It's a looker but it has all the problems of an Unreal Engine game where DLSS makes the whole thing look slightly blurry, shadows flash constantly, textures and models load incredibly slowly on an HDD (making using an SSD almost a requirement which sucks) and lots of weird pop-in and stutters. The character and environment models are gorgeously detailed and heavily stylised and incredible to look at which makes this hurt so much more than it should. I hope the devs push a few patches to fix the graphics a little so it's not quite so weird looking at times.
These are minor complaints that should not take away from the fact that this is a beautiful and challenging puzzler that did stump me quite a few times and actually has an extremely engaging and intriguing story with a colourful cast of lively characters with full, high quality voice acting and amazing music to carry you through the whole way. This game really is the full puzzler package and I ABSOLUTELY recommend it to puzzle game aficionados and anyone who enjoyed the first game. I am looking forward to DLC with bated breath and I hope they up the difficulty with the DLC puzzles.
1. The difficulty is quite uneven. There are late game puzzles that are easier than early game puzzles owing due to the constant flood of new mechanics in almost every single world and some of these mechanics don't carry forward that often which is a little disappointing. While the difficulty does ramp up by the end, there are still "tutorial" levels even at the late game that take seconds to complete. I understand why the game is structured as is but this hurts the difficulty curve a bit
2. A third of the Star puzzles are just "chase thing" and another third is "hunt for thing" which makes them not puzzles really. The final third which are actual puzzles are mostly disappointingly easy with one exception which I thought was a little unfair due to a puzzle element being hidden away so deeply I had to actually look up what I was missing. In the same vein, there are additional "triangle" puzzles and these are mostly all easily found if you walk on the paths save one exception and this one is hidden so well that you'd NEVER see it unless you were actively looking everywhere in the level which was annoying
3. The worlds really do get too large and it starts taking way too long to get through them. There's no map either so sometimes you have to hunt for entire puzzle levels which is less than ideal. Wish there was another layer of fast travel unlocked after you open the gates which would have let you get around faster.
4. The post processing lets this game down grievously. It's a looker but it has all the problems of an Unreal Engine game where DLSS makes the whole thing look slightly blurry, shadows flash constantly, textures and models load incredibly slowly on an HDD (making using an SSD almost a requirement which sucks) and lots of weird pop-in and stutters. The character and environment models are gorgeously detailed and heavily stylised and incredible to look at which makes this hurt so much more than it should. I hope the devs push a few patches to fix the graphics a little so it's not quite so weird looking at times.
These are minor complaints that should not take away from the fact that this is a beautiful and challenging puzzler that did stump me quite a few times and actually has an extremely engaging and intriguing story with a colourful cast of lively characters with full, high quality voice acting and amazing music to carry you through the whole way. This game really is the full puzzler package and I ABSOLUTELY recommend it to puzzle game aficionados and anyone who enjoyed the first game. I am looking forward to DLC with bated breath and I hope they up the difficulty with the DLC puzzles.