![]() There could be any number of reasons why the door is locked, up to and including the fact you aren’t supposed to go through the door. Can’t get into a locked room? Well, unless there are some movable statues right outside or a monster with the key, then good luck. Can’t beat a boss? Gain more levels, or memorize its attacks, or try a different strategy. Or more specifically, I abhor games in which you can come to a hard stopping point and flounder around not even knowing what it is the game is asking you to do. I don’t actually like Adventure/Puzzle games. This should not have been much of a surprise. I too recreated that one scene from Sunshine.Īnd that’s the $25 question. Still later sequences require you to sit on your hands for 7+ minutes before getting the opportunity to finish navigating a hallway that becomes impossible to complete within 30 seconds of the window of opportunity opening. But immediately following that one sequence were many more that would not have been obvious (to me) at all. ![]() As is often the case, when I broke down and looked up the solution, it was something that should have been obvious. But when I encountered a particularly annoying timing puzzle I could not solve after repeated attempts, I was ready to abandon the game. ![]() Up to this point, I had been doing everything on my own. It wasn’t enough to discover where you needed to go for the next clue, you also had to be there at a specific timeframe. Then the game required gnarly platforming AND specific timing. Exploration started requiring some gnarly platforming, where failure often resulted in survival… but lost minutes, of which you only ever have 22. The impending supernova did grate on my nerves a few times, as it always seemed to occur when I was 90% done exploring a specific location, requiring me to make a return trip to finish up and then suiciding so as not to limit exploration time somewhere else.Īs with all videogames though, things escalated from there. Once you get the controls down, you can wake up from the beginning of the time loop and be orbiting any planet in the solar system within minutes. Or possibly you.Įverything was great for about two-thirds of the experience.
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