@GenghisJohn: @jozzy: I just finished the game and really enjoyed it. But I'm a big Portal fan. I actually think this is a better first person puzzle-platformer attempt than QUBE. Unlike QUBE, this actually has a narrator who does inject a little personality into the mix, and the change from 'generic research facility' environments also helps a bunch.
I just skimmed the Wot I Think, and nearly every complaint is a valid one, but it's hardly as affecting as the reviewer lets on. The narrator made me chuckle maybe three times throughout the experience, but I think the majority of the humour comes from the environments themselves: looking at the various paintings around the world as he comments on his family history, then watching as those paintings morph in the different dimensions is probably the most memorable thing about the experience. And his commentary on these paintings is the best written and delivered stuff.
The puzzles are all well designed (there's one particular one near the end of the game that probably blows everything in the Portal franchise out of the water in sheer ambition and execution of it's design). But there are a handful of puzzles that rely on gameplay concepts that weren't previously trained to you, and they're easily the most frustrating.
Overall, I'd give a 4/5 if I had to slap a label on it. Pretty solid value for the dollar, too: took me around 7-8 hours to finish and I've still got quite a few collectibles to hunt down.
@Chroma_Auron said:
This game looks like it will be plenty of fun. It looks about the same quality as Portal. The only flaw i see is that john delancie's voice acting sounds out of place for someone to be an old man pictured on the cover.
It works really well, actually. I just think the game isn't nearly as well written as the Portal stuff. I mean, Erik Wolpaw and co. are among the best in the industry, so that can be forgiven methinks. But Delancie's voice fits the nonsensical intellectual elder fairly well.
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