Recent reviews by MaryMajesty

This game simultaneously gave me and subsequently cured my depression. 10/10

There have been very few games that have made me cry this much. This is one of the few games that I'll be remembering and cherishing for the rest of my life.

This is an incredibly well made co-op game with unique gameplay and gorgeous art. I managed to 100% the game and get all the achievements without ever needing to look up a walkthrough, and the puzzle solutions made me feel smart as hell. I definitely recommend it.

TL;DR: This game forces you to install Origin, which crashes immediately when launching, making me unable to even start the game. Origin managed to just barely not crash long enough for me to start the game once, and it was mediocre.

Technical issues:
This game forces you to install Origin. This is questionable in and of itself, but I don't really care if I get to play the game. Which is exactly the problem. I didn't. Origin crashes immediately after launching it. I spent 3 hours with EA customer service who simply regurgitated "solutions" from google search results that I had already tried. But here comes the kicker: Through sheer luck one time Origin managed to just barely not crash long enough for me to start the game. It crashed one second after the game launched, but the game kept working. This means Origin isn't even needed for this game to work. Yet you still need Origin to launch the game, which it doesn't let me.

The gameplay:
I managed to play this game for just over an hour somehow. The gameplay was unique, but it was never used to its full potential. There are tons of instant death traps in the levels which force you to completely redo the last 5 minutes of the level you just did, even though deaths wouldn't even be necessary. The game essentially has a rewind feature by letting you climb back up your yarn, but they still decided to make you waste your time by putting death traps everywhere. I played the first two levels and had to look up solutions 3 different times, each time it was because the solution was to interact with an object that didn't look interactable. Everything has the same art style, so all the objects easily look like they're a part of the background.

This is an amazing programming puzzle game in the vein of the Zachtronics games. While the mechanics are not quite as complicated as those of these so-called "Zachlikes", this is by no means an easy game. The levels ramp up in difficulty and get hard quite fast. In addition, all the levels have a secret way of finishing them that requires you to think outside the box and abuse the system. While the graphics could use some polish and the music can get a little repetitive (it's great music though!), this does not change the fact that this is an excellent puzzle game with interesting mechanics that I can only recommend.