Well, once I figured out how it works, the puzzle's actually pretty good. It's just the mechanic that's counterintuitive. I don't think there's much that could be done to improve the reveal.
Got to top right and encountered a new mechanic. It works very unreliably. Seems like only some lasers have this property while undistinguishable from others. Not recommended.
II The enemies outpower the protagonist by spawning on top of them or filling the whole screen rather than acting with any intelligence. Also, are the two common types of people-like enemies in chapter 1 any different from each other?
III The dodge is not really a dodge.It's more of a dash.
So I saw Lady of the lake at a closed cave entrance. Then I went in the other route in and went to open the door. There the cutscene played again. Next I went to fight the area's boss and aquired shards along the way. I went back to complete the mission and then went to the bossfight's place collecting the last 4 shards on the way again.
Later on, I collected a metro pass and went to Financial District. There, I realized I don't have the pass anymore and so I can't go back. Also, I realized that some shards in this area can also be aquired more than once.
I have gone through the game until the "sludge temple" area and then tried to save using the compute shrine at the area's entrance. Then this error occured and the game kinda shut down.
After restarting the game, I respawned at the beginning of "sludge wastes" area and the bug would occur again.
Also, here's a list of smaller glitches/weird things I've seen that I don't think I should make another post for:
- I can interact with an elevator panel in such a way that Val slaps the wall instead of the button and yet the elevator door react the same
- Val is rapidly changing between standing and falling when on downwards moving platforms and also seems to have a glitched image when on other moving platforms
- the tips for jumping on sludge blocks (those for divekick) are actually after the first blocks have to be used
- before entering "sludge temple", camera goes upwards if Val stands on the same level as the temple door
I launched it in my browser and the menu doesn't work. Clicking with a mouse does nothing, pressing arrows does nothing and pressing enter also does nothing.
So now the game actually looks like it should be easier to understand. However, the "mason" tile's description doesn't actually explain how it works. Also, "Redirects to watcher." sounds confusing when the player wasn't introduced into other redirections. Another thing to mention is that cards sometimes stick to the cursor.
Regarding endings that aren't in the game yet, I think the dialogue of the guy in the cave seems unfinished. If I skip-jump while having double jump, my character wants to help but simply can't. After tossing the stone, the caveman seems to forget I visited him before and I can't give him any of my jump powerups, even though I can give my multi-jump to the dog. However, I have no idea what could happen if I helped the caveman get out.
It's a very good game but there were a few gameplay aspects that felt a bit counter-intuitive to me:
- When the gravity changes my view of the room doesn't flip. My character(?) does flip and controls stay the same. That results in left arrow being "go right" and right arrow being "go left" when the square is upside (wherever its up is) down.
- The game description states that flipping gravity "will allow you to see things, other way hidden" but it's more like allowing to collect things other way intangible. Also, at first glance, the triangles seem more tangible than those color-distorted square groups.
- I feel that background music got louder over playtime (or as I collected more collectibles) but that might be just an illusion.
I quite liked the concept of a 3D mineswepper. However, this game has a few things that could be improved:
- There's no download or fullscreen mode (which was especially annoying when I kept trying to sprint using ctrl + w that closes the tab).
- Since numbered blocks are also blocks the player breaks, every non-mine cube destroyed is a clue lost (unless the player takes notes)
- On easy and normal difficulty, it's possible to break through the whole chamber using only clues from not-numbered blocks (so the difficulty is the same)
- a chamber might sometimes get a blackout so the player has to restart it (I don't know what the conditions are but it happened to me when I tried to clear as many blocks as possible on normal level).
I like this game's concept but the web version has a few bugs. I managed to break the "lost" message by quickly restarting a level and sometimes orange blocks and yellow buttons just don't react to what they should detect.
I found the game boring since last office level. However, I saw many comments saying that's a good one. I continued playing and eventually I met the final boss. Fighting it is not boring but simply annoying. Even if I get the right abilities, it would still take me about 2000 turns to win while making sure the enemy can't use it's one-hit-kill abilities. I really wanted to find a reason to call it a good game but I've only wasted time.
I like the idea but it turns out to be harder than I thought. However, I've just found some controls menu and there are some 2nd player's buttons. Was it meant to be multiplayer?
1. The magnet can get stuck inside a box if it comes on the crate's respawn tile a while before the box respawns. The first time, I could do nothing but restart. I reproduced the bug right before writing this and now the crate is gone and does not respawn. This time, it was harder to get stuck.
2. Those mine-like exploding things might act weirdly. When I played before, some of them could be attracted without explosion if the magnet was right next to them. After repeling, they started to fall below the floor and teleporting back up, causing an explosion when magnet went on that tile. This time, they acted almost normally except I've managed to repel them before explosion and the explosion occured but didn't reset the level. Both times, I did it at the start of level 11.
I'm actually not sure if it is something wrong with the game or my browser.
