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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.3 hrs on record
Posted: 4 Jul, 2020 @ 2:47pm

Played on HTC Vive Pro/Vive controllers/RTX2060Super

Well, I will push the thumbs up, but I'm not all satisfied.
It does look neat but some puzzles are just a bit off..
for starters I didn't even know the books opened up, I tried it even with the first book I picked up, but didn't open up, I guess I just put the controller too deep into the book or something, so I never tried it on other books.... BUT it's needed to actually be able to progress.. They have 3 examples in the startscene of how to use certain stuff, they should have had an example of how to open a book there, so I would have known these book opened..
In the hard room I accidentally got the ball out of the maze and no way to get the ball back into it. But then again, the ballmaze itself is pretty buggy, for me it just didn't move smoothly, sometimes it did and sometimes the ball just seems to stay at its position even though it should have moved.
Then the puzzle with the chest and it's arrows, easy room, well, it seems easy as the solution is right on the table, BUT no clue on where to start which makes it a very frustrating puzzle. Even after I read the solution, I didn't think it was that obvious it should go that way.. and in the hardroom I didn't even have a clue about the book (until I read it in the solution post), and luckily I just did the easy room, so I knew how to start and go, otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue.
In the easyroom the safe puzzle was bugged, I didn't need to use the third wheel to put in the middle, I just set the left and right one to the correct position and I just fumbled accidentally in the middle with my controller and the safe just opened (I found the third dial only later).
Also the book with the 'periodic dinner table' didn't make any sense to me as I didn't understand what was meant with that (until I read the solution)..

I do like the way they tried to show how to use stuff in the starting scene, but it lacked an important one, the book.
And IMHO they should have had a hint or something where to start with the chest and how to proceed, as 6 buttons on 2 rows can have a gazillion ways if you don't have a clue where to start, it wasn't obvious to me.

For a puzzle VR-game I like the graphics very much. And I'm looking forward to play their next 2 puzzle games which I also bought, hopefully due to having done this game first I'm more in the know how they think or meant stuff so I won't be frustrated with some of the puzzles like I was in this game.
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