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Hexagon version, please?

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Very interesting and chilling indeed.

What starts a bit loose and with a generic "underground science facility" ends up connecting well, althought at times weirdly. The actual important part is not what the text tells you but what it doesn't.

Can you remember "you"?

So it's generally a obtuse, no fun, slow, rule inconsistent and unpleasant to look/hear/click mess.


I like minimalist puzzles, but this one falls really really short in many aspects that I'll try to list in no specific order.

-Very slow-paced for no reason (animations, restarts, level complete etc. all of it)
-Piece (pill) turning ""mechanic"" that serves absolutely no porpuse at all, and if you miss it the level autofails and restarts. It's like the devs were going to turn it into a feature but did not and left it in the game anyway. AND it uses your right mouse button, which could be instead used for actual commands that you will use at every level such as 'C' (changing pill placement) and 'P' (looking at objective).
-As mentioned above, autofails and restarts on many "mistakes" it induces you to commit. But not always, idk why but some mistakes are allowed and others not for no reason. So that's double bad.
-Also related to above, no Undo function, but with autofail that would be almost useless in most cases. No reason for that in this game by all means.
-Inconsistent move order and collisions. What works in one level might be the opposite in the next. So you have to guess, and with collisions if you guess wrong it will auto restart.
-Bad controls: you have no way of knowing wich piece (pill) should go where, until you press 'P' or click a on-screen button to show you the objective. And all levels start with this turned off by default so you have to at least do one extra click at the start of every level before you can begin "solving" stuff.
-Visually it's eye soring, all white background, with no options to it.
-All levels start locked but the first one, and you can only progress 1 to 1, which in some games is okay... here, it's not.
-Music and SFX are generic place holders, that are just bad and irritating. No sliders but at least on/off toggles.

If I were the devs I would patch it (probably not worth it) or remove it from store because it left a bad taste in my mouth, making me skeptical on trying their other games.

Decepcionante. Tem delays desnecessários e as dificuldades são mais limitações arbitrárias do que mecânicas em si (ficando mais chatas do que difíceis conforme você progride).

Recomendo outros jogos do desenvolvedor como Hook (1 e 2) e Klocki. E ainda pretendo comprar outros dele futuramente como Up Left Out.


(english tl;dr: annoying delays, arbitrary difficulties. but I do recommend checking dev's other games.)

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It does indeed contain corn.


Buy it.

game taught me how to breathe.


(also slightly eerie)

doing all endings/paths is *very* worth it.
(there's a guide and you can skip already seen text if need be)



also, Jupiter is so cute it hurts.

"(...)

A justiça sempre vence terminou aquela intriga
O Homem Mau amanheceu com a boca cheia de formiga
Lá na sua sepultura escreveram com desdém
O Homem Mau morreu deitado e não faz falta pra ninguém."



Léo Canhoto & Robertinho (1969)