After playing the sequel to this game — which was absolutely brilliant! — I was excited to play the first game in the series. I knew it wasn't the same type of game as Please Touch The Artwork 2 but I didn't really know exactly how they were different. So I was kinda going into the playthrough with not really knowing what to expect.

After talking to the museum employee, I was sent to the New York exhibition. In this section you navigate mazes, collecting dots that spawn letters which form little poems. It took me a solid hour to get to the end of that and while the gameplay was kinda fun in the beginning, it overstayed it's welcome very quickly. It was far too long to be fun the entire time.

I played the Boogie Woogie section next and compared to the hour-long maze, the gameplay here was actually good fun — until the trial and error phase began. I'm not entirely sure if I was missing something but in the section with the teleport squares I didn't see any possible strategies. On some levels, when you make too many mistakes, you need to reset and the level changes (randomly?) to a different layout. Again, maybe I'm not clever enough to figure out the pattern here, but feeling like winning or losing was up to pure luck was very frustrating.

The gameplay of the last exhibit was cool but sadly the later puzzles got way too hard for me. I was still frustrated from the first two sections of the game, so I lost all of my patience and just beat the last few levels with a guide to get all of the achievements.

I clearly see the potential this game has, but personally, I did not enjoy the game overall. I had fun moments with it and I can see how other people might enjoy it a lot more than I did, but this is a review of my experience and I'm sad to say it wasn't a great one.

You should definitely play Please Touch The Artwork 2, it's an amazing game and it's free!

Got it on discount, worth it.
Chilll music and easy to medium puzzles
2-4 hours to complete 100%

Full game play - All achievements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdxEtha6g8U

The puzzle game also includes art. There are 3 different museums. I liked The New York City gallery more, the puzzles there were easier than the others. Cool game