A very "intelligently" designed game, for better and for worse!
It's interesting because at first glance you'd think that the game would be like a sandbox (it literally takes place in one) where you can use the many tools at your disposal to come up with all kinds of solutions to the puzzles, but in actuality pretty much every puzzle has such a tight design that deviating even slightly from the intended solution will result in failure. BUT the solutions themselves are very clever in how they use the mechanics/environments and it's impressive how much mileage the game gets out of relatively simple physics. Almost too clever at times actually- there is 0% chance I would have come up with some of the things the game was expecting me to do without a guide- but I felt very smart whenever I did manage to figure something out for myself!
Was surprised by how nothing the story was though... like I wasn't expecting it to be life changing or anything like that but it somehow managed to fumble the little that was there. Also the humor was VERY dated, like, some of these references were deep cuts. But the game was way more about the mechanics than anything else though, so, whatever! It handled well and that was the important thing.
It's interesting because at first glance you'd think that the game would be like a sandbox (it literally takes place in one) where you can use the many tools at your disposal to come up with all kinds of solutions to the puzzles, but in actuality pretty much every puzzle has such a tight design that deviating even slightly from the intended solution will result in failure. BUT the solutions themselves are very clever in how they use the mechanics/environments and it's impressive how much mileage the game gets out of relatively simple physics. Almost too clever at times actually- there is 0% chance I would have come up with some of the things the game was expecting me to do without a guide- but I felt very smart whenever I did manage to figure something out for myself!
Was surprised by how nothing the story was though... like I wasn't expecting it to be life changing or anything like that but it somehow managed to fumble the little that was there. Also the humor was VERY dated, like, some of these references were deep cuts. But the game was way more about the mechanics than anything else though, so, whatever! It handled well and that was the important thing.