It's impressive how the basic themes of stacking and combining themes remain so fresh, but Unmechanical rarely feels like it's retreading territory. Sure, there's plenty of the standard: press-button-with-heavy-object puzzles or bounce-beam-with-mirrors puzzles, but even these are laid out in a way that won't drive you crazy. One puzzle requires you to play a put-the-ball-in-the-hole game using a gravity-reversal machine another requires you to search out the right combination of chemical components by observing the world around you and making deductions. The puzzles in the game are, for the most part, excellent amd varied, and do a great job of challenging your noggin without being frustrating. You never know what (or who) is lurking behind the scenes. Eventually you'll get there by process of elimination, but some indicator arrows or other simplifiers would've reduced some frustration.
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Often, the pictograms are confusing or outright unhelpful, and you're likely to find yourself at a loss-not because you can't figure out how to solve a puzzle, but because you simply don't know where to go next or what you're supposed to be doing. Unfortunately, this last part is where Unmechanical stumbles. If you don’t, imagine a standard platformer, add a heavy dose of physics puzzles, take away any combat elements, and tell the story entirely with pictograms. Unmechanical feels and plays a lot like a combination of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and Machinarium, if you know those games. Powering these devices unlocks new areas and more puzzles, and reveals, indirectly, the game's backstory. The power spheres are used to power Unmechanical's biomechanical devices (many of which look like human organs). Most puzzles involve positioning these things in various ways to solve puzzles and open doors or receive power spheres. Using a short-range tractor beam, you can pick up rocks, steel girders, flaming balls of death, and mirrors, among other things. As the game progresses, you receive upgrades that give you new powers, generally allowing you to traverse new terrain (such as underwater) or interact with physics objects differently.įor the most part, though, you have only one thing you can do: grab stuff. You play as a little robot with a propeller attached to its head, which allows you to fly around the game's levels at will.
Unmechanical's story is told entirely through the visual gameplay there's no text, no dialogue, and very few symbol or pictogram cues. We need this laser to impact the glowing crystal. Yet it's still a fun and clever game with slick visuals and varied puzzles, making it a stimulating trifle that will occupy a pleasant afternoon. With its inspiration displayed so clearly on its sleeve, it struggles to stand out. In the glut of recent, independent puzzle games, how does any given game distinguish itself from the pack? Don't ask Unmechanical, the newest puzzler from Talawa Games.
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