This still means you need to complete the platforming elements but there are less of those in the game and lets the most casual player enjoy the story and world. This lets you press a button to bring up a line that directs you to the next thing you need to pick up or press to continue on. You can have the hardest mode which clears out any UI from the game, normal mode which highlights things you can interact with and guided mode. The Plane Effect has a great difficulty selection process that you can switch on the fly that opens the game up for all. If you are worried about puzzles, fear not. These yellow tiles move up and down but you can’t tell where you are in relation to them. It’s a nice touch stylistically and from a puzzle perspective. I found these mini puzzles to be a joy to discover as finding your kids paper plane brings you back to reality again and grounds you. Every so often, you’ll end up back in your office but each time it’s been manipulated by time or physics. Indeed, some of them are quite wacky and entertaining like using a white rabbit in a wheel to chase a holographic carrot so it powers open a door. This might put a few people off but as the puzzles constantly change over the course the game visually, I wasn’t tired of it. This is because like a traditional point and click adventure, you can’t pick up the oil can until Solo has visited the cogs he needs to oil first. Working out what you can interact with is half the work in The Plane Effect but the other is working out what order you need to interact with them in. Is corporate greed taking us away from our loved ones? (Yes).Įach area has a selection of puzzles viewed isometrically and you walk, run and jump around them. What a crazy commute! Of course, this is all a visual feast for you to unpick and place subtext onto. You’ll be swimming around to avoid evil jellyfish and sharks. Everything is disconnecting him from what normal used to be and placing him in a weird industrial and creature riddled hell. You play as Solo, leaving work for the day to get home to his family but the world outside has gone mad. The muted colour palette sells the depressing feel – and your house looks like a murder scene.
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