It seems to be point and click day on XBLA today, both this and Sam n Max showing that the genre is far from dead.
It's a little bit different to your standard adventure game , there is no real inventory, clicking on various pieces of scenario interacts with them, sometimes they just interact by themselves and other times Axel will walk over to them and you have to complete the puzzle by interacting with things in a very linear fasion.
That's probably my only gripe so far, the tasks you overcome are very simplistic and the lack of inventory takes the guesswork out of solving many puzzles. That and the fact that you have to wait for Axel to finish walking/interacting with what you have clicked on.
This is clearly a throwback to the style of play that the developers have knocked off from the just as simplistic and equally beautiful Flash game Samarost where technical/programming limiatoins were clearly a a big influence in the design.
Speaking of Samarost , I actually regret slightly buying this as the game truly a rip in every possible way of Samarost and paying money knowing that the guy isn't invloved makes me feel bad. I will be making sure I buy Machinarium though to make up for it
It's a little bit different to your standard adventure game , there is no real inventory, clicking on various pieces of scenario interacts with them, sometimes they just interact by themselves and other times Axel will walk over to them and you have to complete the puzzle by interacting with things in a very linear fasion.
That's probably my only gripe so far, the tasks you overcome are very simplistic and the lack of inventory takes the guesswork out of solving many puzzles. That and the fact that you have to wait for Axel to finish walking/interacting with what you have clicked on.
This is clearly a throwback to the style of play that the developers have knocked off from the just as simplistic and equally beautiful Flash game Samarost where technical/programming limiatoins were clearly a a big influence in the design.
Speaking of Samarost , I actually regret slightly buying this as the game truly a rip in every possible way of Samarost and paying money knowing that the guy isn't invloved makes me feel bad. I will be making sure I buy Machinarium though to make up for it
I bought it back when it came out as I tried the demo and fell in love with the visual style and the characters, I felt at times there needed to be a little more direction as some of the puzzles were slightly confusing back when I played it, but overall I really liked it.
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