Cutscenes Mechanics Puzzle 
Game Refinery
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
To put you on the right track, we’ve taken a deep dive into four games that have delivered innovative storytelling in four subgenres: Merge Puzzle from the Casual category, and MMORPG, Action RPG, and 4X Strategy from the Mid-core category. Goddess of Victory: NIKKE features high-quality anime cutscenes.
Keith Burgun
APRIL 28, 2024
The side quests and smaller interactions in the game are good, those cutscenes are great. These kinds of games are really “stuff reliant” – new characters, abilities, mechanics, loot, story events, monsters, etc need to be fed into the system at a good pace to continue being fun. actually a remake? PRO : Barret.
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Played with Fire
DECEMBER 4, 2021
Astronomical observatory simulator, manipulating telescope POV, rotating planets on lens display like dioramas or puzzle boxes, relaxing, immersive 360 experience in space, UX pillars: precision, real-time, comfortable distances, avoiding locomotion sickness. A reliable system of interaction for puzzle mechanics.
Deconstructor of Fun
MAY 20, 2024
With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. They had a specific take on the metagame, focusing on underserved male puzzle players, and built their visual style towards that goal instead of increasing production complexity. The former is still trying to find its feet while the latter has achieved a moderate level of success.
Keith Burgun
APRIL 10, 2023
This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. Secrets are hidden, but findable parts of a game that help give games a sense that there is “more than meets the eye” and that this is a world , not just a content delivery mechanism. They are findable.
Keith Burgun
JUNE 18, 2022
The 1P videogames I’ve always dreamed of had these qualities: Mechanically deep and systemically driven – perhaps even if that means it’s got a learning curve. Endlessly replayable, with 1P ranking systems (“single-player Elo”). Clear off-ramp (i.e.
Radiator Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
There's a Portal-like moment where you escape the puzzle. This isn't a big apocalyptic video game betrayal cutscene where a villain reveals himself and destroys a castle, instead it's a smaller deeper betrayal that instantly brought me back to being a teenager. And yet it doesn't get more mechanically complicated.
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