Posted on: November 26, 2023
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I bought it and I regret it.
For the number of reviews harping on Opus Magnum, not one reviewer seems to have actually played the thing. Well, I did. And the reviews are wrong. This is not a clone - and it is a BAD thing. What sets it apart from the original: * You have to generate ONE item, not produce a sustainable loop * You have a limited budget spread out across multiple levels * The instruction length is limited * There is a multitude of mechanics not present in Opus Magnum (throwing, unique target receptacles etc.) * There's no competition against peers (no end-level stats) Now to the question of WHY it is bad: * The UI is pretty bad. It's cluttered, rail directions are pretty much guesswork, targets are not exact (not all links need to be fulfilled), the mechanism list covers part of the playing field when opened. * The mechanics are a guesswork to figure out. Like transformers don't work on linked pieces, they activate when a piece hovers over when swinging on a mechanism arm, unique targets that are trial and error to understand etc. * Limited budget promotes badly inefficient solutions... * ... which bites back when you want to go extreme inefficiency ona a deeper level and stumble on the instruction length limit (which the UI fails to communicate). * The budget refills... sometimes. It is unclear clearing which particular level will refill the budget. * Game soft-locked when I maxed out the instruction list And with that soft-lock I was DONE. It is not fun to play - it is tedium personified. The way it promotes lousy solutions makes the whole thing unwieldy. The rails are a nightmare. The mechanisms not activating in a consistent manner is an annoyance. The game suffers from feature bloat in some areas and lack of refinement in others. I would give it 3-stars if it were but a clone of Opus Magnum with 1-2 new mechanics. As it stands, the inspiration was there, but the delivery is abysmally bad. It is not even worth the 90% discount price I paid. Total failure.
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