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Great game. Nice idea to combine Open World with puzzles.

Nice idea!

It's a really beautiful game and a good port from the Playstation. Interesting story and good combat. The default controls for M&K are a bit weird, but they can be remapped however you like them.

Finished the game in about 40 minutes of casual gameplay.

Some levels are too easy, some are too hard and some are too luck dependent (or I couldn't be bothered to look for a beter solution).

The music is relaxing and very fitting for this game.

Achievements are waaay too many. I can't understad why there are 3 for every level: "Level XXX", "Open level XXX", "Complete level XXX". Also there are 3 for finishing the game, which are basically the same as "Complete last level".

It's not worth the 0,99€ I paid for the game. It offers too little for that price. A correct price for this game would be around 0,70€ I think.

Now I need to idle the game to get the cards ... sigh

Best.Russia.Simulator!

After about 7 hours and a half in this game I think I can write a proper review for it. It has both bad and good things but it's not unplayable, despite it's flaws.



At first it was really fun, but as you play more and more you start to observe the problems with this game. And they are annoying:

1°) Lack of a save feature (last puzzle has 350 pieces and it took me about an hour to complete). If you are not patient enough, this game is not for you. You could Alt+Tab the game and do something else as a break from the puzzle, but I wouldn't do that to much (in the past I had some problems with some games on steam where I couldn't Alt+Tab because that would break the game).

2°) The music is kind of nice, but it becames repetitive quite fast. You could try to mute it, but that would mute all sounds of the game and there is a little click sound when you place a piece in the right place which I found quite useful.

3°) The images are nice, but have too many similar colors and aren't in HiRes. As the puzzles had more and more pieces it became quite hard to find the exact place where one piece would fit. It's even harder if you have a small screen (I played mine on a laptop and it was very painful and it placed a lot of strain on my eyes). The fact that it doesn't show you a big picture of what the puzzle should look like it doesn't help at all. It does have a little "hint" thing where it shows you the picture for a few seconds, but it puts the pieces over the actual picture and when you have many correct pieces it became even harder to find where you should put the other pieces (you can move the pieces normal when this "hint" it's activated). The "hint" button is charged at random when you place pieces correctly; you need 8 charges and you can get them all in a row or you can place 20 pieces and won't gain a single charge.

4°) Picking the piece that you want from the pond can be really hard. Due to a glitch (or bad programming), if yhere are 2 consecutive pieces overlapped, it will ALWAYS give you the first piece (the left one) regardless of which is on top. This can actually help you to solve the puzzles (it is explained in guides how to do it), but it aomewhat kills the fun of doing a puzzle.



It has some good parts too:

1°) It has a decent variety of piece shapes, but sometimes this can be annoying.

2°) The pieces are always oriented the right way (you can't rotate the pieces). It the beginning it may seem boring, but later on you will be grateful that you don't need to rotate the pieces.

3°) You won't lose any of the pieces like you would with a classic jigsaw puzzle if you are not careful.

4°) Achievements are not hard. 24 of the you will get just by finishing all puzzles. You also have to catch the fish which is moving around in the water (you will probably do this by mistake) and you must the fish in the Shishi-odoshi (I think that's what it's called that water thingy at the bottom left corner).



Overall it's not a very bad game, but it's not worth 7 €/$. If you can get it in a bundle or on a sale (at least 66%) then you should give it a try (if you like jigsaw puzzles of course).

Very good soundtrack.

It is kind of addictive! :)

It's a good game.

PRO: You can choose how to play. If you want to sneak around and don't get detected, feel free to try. If you want to go there and kill everything, then do that and have some fun; but you need to be quick. Oh and you can hack into computers and disable security cameras and open doors.
If you want to beat some records, you musn't kill anybody or let the guards/camera spot you and of course you have to be fast.

CON: Too short. It does not justify the 12$ price, but I'm still wainting for the free update promised. :)

It's just awful!

Quite challenging and there are some awesome maps at Community Workshop!