So this game is literally unplayable without a mouse, and while this has been a perfectly good excuse for me to not review a game in the past, I figured since my last post was a not real exe, I owed it to you guys to find an old junker mouse and play. Appreciate me!
Ehh, even after that, this game is supposed to be played multiplayer....we've been through this song and dance before...
well anyway, this is a game that I can appreciate only from the perspective of a video game aficionado. Kind of in the same way food critics are required to speak well of certain types of full bodied yet utterly repulsive cheese, I feel obligated to give this game a nod because it's "really good if you're into that."
This game works rather similarly to a 3D Luminaria. Instead of guiding beams of light to certain goals via angled blocks, you're guiding quantized spheres. Insert physics joke here.
So why is this game so "good?" well I think it's because they had a lot of opportunities to screw up, but didn't take them. For example, most games that want you to rotate the world instead of the camera to adjust your viewpoint allow you to do so by holding RMB and moving the mouse around. This one, however, simply lets you use WASD, which is much easier to control.
The design is also laudable. There's not much to talk about here, but the 3D is pulled off nicely. Some may complain that the overgrown grass may get in the way of the spheres, but that annoyance is your own fault because of the ease with which you can fix your view.
In general, the game really makes you feel as if you have full control over whatever goes on. Any misstep is your fault and your fault alone. Of course, I'm saying this as a guy who played the game as if it were singleplayer, which essentially reduced the game to a couple of really easy puzzles, so maybe my opinion isn't really indicative of the final product.
Well whatever. I reviewed a game that ought not to be reviewed. My challenges for the day have been overcome. That's all I got for now. Until next time, stay bouncy.
Links
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