Alt+Escape: Grayscale
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Game was too forgiving...but you can never please me.
Pretty neat idea but trial and error makes it really simple. 18 had one of those annoying game-lengthening mechanics that wasn't a puzzle but just a time waster. 18 and 15 were really fun to figure out how to do though, with 15 being my personal favorite of all of them. The rest was just guessing.
Pretty neat idea but trial and error makes it really simple. 18 had one of those annoying game-lengthening mechanics that wasn't a puzzle but just a time waster. 18 and 15 were really fun to figure out how to do though, with 15 being my personal favorite of all of them. The rest was just guessing.
That's a pretty cool game, design on a nutshell. And I like the music, too.
I also agree that trial and error will be your best friend for most of the levels, although on the ones with the disappearing pathways it might not work so well.
I also agree that trial and error will be your best friend for most of the levels, although on the ones with the disappearing pathways it might not work so well.
I just played trough the last level half drunk and very tired.
This is one of the many logic games that fails at the "so easy to manipulate that you can just play randomly until you succeed", kinda like the "rub every object with each other until something works" of graphic adventure games...
There should have been more levels where the line burns after you passed it, or ways to manipulate entire lines, not just the corners.
This is one of the many logic games that fails at the "so easy to manipulate that you can just play randomly until you succeed", kinda like the "rub every object with each other until something works" of graphic adventure games...
There should have been more levels where the line burns after you passed it, or ways to manipulate entire lines, not just the corners.
Either I'm really smart or really lucky because most of the levels weren't that hard to solve. A little trial and error worked for mostly of them and taking the most likely path worked for a bunch too. I only had to really think out one. Yeah, for luck!
Quite a few interesting puzzles, but some were just a bit obvious to their solutions. Some were, admittedly, solved by pure luck but others definitely gave a good challenge. Nice time-waster but it only took me about 15 minutes to complete and I'm not that great of a puzzle solver. Its fun for only the first time getting through since every puzzle only has one solution.
There aren't actually that many variables. There's a limited number of paths that you can take round bits of each level, maximum of maybe 4 paths. Once you figure out which path moves which cogs you just need to loop the path to see how the cogs line up, loop another to get them out of sync so that they point to the exit and you're done.Kuliani said:
That's could be why everyone sees trial and error helping them, if you focus on moving just one cog rather than the path it looks like the others fall in randomly. You can focus on just one or two gears and the rest MUST fall into place as they can't be controlled separately.
If I had hated a small but quick game like this, I'd probably still play it just so I can say I beat the sucker!SageRuffin said:You know, there's something about your last couple of sentences that baffles me: if you hated the game that much, why did you keep going?LTK_70 said:Not gonna let that game get away with that, am I? I completed 15, the trick is to rotate the top wheel counter-clockwise. Did all the other levels as well. "Game complete. I hope you enjoyed the experience." No, not really. Don't think the music was that great, either. If I want to rotate gears I'll play Cogs.SageRuffin said:Yeah, that was the one that kicked my ass. Cool music at least.ShadowKirby said:Well, should have gone to 15. That level is freaking impossible. The game beat meLTK_70 said:
I think the dials and such could use some tic-marks to let the player know how far an intended pass will spin things. Without any, you're just left to trust the mysterious geometry, and it sort of takes it out of the realm of puzzler and more into a kind of trial-and-error nonsense that can get somewhat tedious.
I liked it. Some of the levels you can just stumble upon the solution. Not too long and not too hard. Nice little brain tease, like a snack for your brain.
