This week your intrepid heroes fight controls, invent a new drinking game, and get murdered for no reason.
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Game: Monochroma
Webzone: http://monochromagame.com/
Devel: Nowhere Studios
Engine: Unity
Price: $19.99
Wazzat: Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles, and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950′s setting.
Makes with the working
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Our base test system had zero issues running Lim …er Monochroma
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Let’s play a game: Every time anyone mentions LIMBO during this review, take a shot!
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Shiny / Sounds
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I’ve never played LIMBO until this week so Monochroma was looking hella neat.
Then Gordon released the Linux port and I was all ….oh, right.
Saying this game was heavily inspired by LIMBO would be an understatement.
Performance is all over the place /w the 770s.
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The only real problem I have with how the game looks is how uninspired it looks.
It is rather obvious they took a little more than inspiration away from LIMBO.
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Control
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The controls for LIM.. shite, wrong game. Those controls actually work.
Controls are hella muddy
Can’t rebind shite.
Unacceptable in 2014 when we have SDL2. Anything using the SDL2 game controller API WILL NOT HAVE THESE PROBLEMS.
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Muddier than my ass after taco night
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No rebind-ability and the fact that instead of Start, I have to push the right bumper (R1) to go to the menu do this game no favors.
Movement still has the exact same problem as it did in the Kickstarter demo. Namely the fact that your characters only seem to be affected by physics when they’re ragdolled at death.
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FUN?
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So many things taken right of of Limbos playbook.
The lil bro mechanic might be interesting but /w the iffy controls it only adds unneeded difficulty.
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This game just doesn’t do anything for me
The little brother mechanic just becomes annoying after a while. I really do not care for his well being.
Boring boring boring.
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There’s a bug on my end: it causes me to be unable to progress beyond the warehouse with all the kids in the cryotubes.
Native LIMBO was released this week too. I finished that, all over again, instead!
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