I did find the ending to be interesting, basically Sometimes things don't work out and that's ok.Īt least once you finish the game the first time, it only takes like one or two more hours to platinum it. It would have been neat to keep exploring those ideas further, but the game ended. They started to really expand on some of their ideas, like using the pylons to build ramps, and the part where you had to keep manipulating the keys to get the right size. One of those things that really wasn't clear. The hardest puzzle for me was the one where you have to put the staircase sideways and climb up on the lower half, then cross over to the upper half. It's a hidden rule of the game that makes the controls feel more frustrating. You can't drop crystals near the forcefield walls, which can make things really awkward in some of the more confined areas.

Overall, I thought it was fun, but there were definitely some awkward moments. As a walking Sim, it's a cool experience, but as a puzzle game, it's dreadful. Overall, Maquette is a super pretty game with an absolutely banging soundtrack. My wife and I groaned at the cutesy and predictable back and forth and from the very start of the game you know their relationship is doomed.Īt one point the couple talks about how they'd never go on a typical date and use talking at a bar as an example.when five minutes earlier the game literally shows them meeting at a coffee shop. The couple was insufferable and fell into every cliche imaginable. The story is a much worse version of the game Florence. Sometimes you feel like you can move anywhere as long as you can jump around to it, and other times the game places invisible walls where there previously weren't any. The rules of the world aren't easy to figure out because they keep changing. Especially since up to that point all of the other puzzles were make big thing small, or make small thing big. They don't do a good job of introducing mechanics or letting you know what you can and can't do. Immediately after that you need to grab another crystal by reaching through a gated wall that looks like other areas you normally couldn't interact with. Nope, it's possible.just only over the one specific area they want you to. There is one moment where you need to get a crystal over a hedge wall, but the game places invisible, impassable walls around the other 3 walls near you, leaving you to think it's impossible to drop anything over. This got incredibly frustrating when you were trying to pick up and put down crystals in small spaces that would trigger the gateways, or when you would hit try to bring the object closer so you could run, and the object would keep itself dangled 10 feet in front of you, refusing to retract back into you as you slowly walked around. Sometimes the buttons just didn't work the way they were supposed to. There were many moments when I wasn't able to bring an object close to myself or drop an object. I also found myself very frustrated with the controls. Another time the actual solution didn't work so I had to jerry-rig a way to finish the puzzle by jumping around like an idiot. At one point I had to restart because the game wouldn't let me drop a crystal. The puzzles range from incredibly easy to game breakingly bad and I never really felt satisfied or clever when I finished a puzzle. Maybe it's because I just beat Obduction (Incredible puzzle game by the makers of Myst), but this game fell a bit flat for me.

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