L.G.C. |Reviews| — Cradle – Linux Game Cast

Your intrepid heroes grab buckets, spin in circles, and search for a resolution. Cradle faces the CHAIRQUISITION!

Game: Cradle
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/361550/
Devel: Flying Cafe for Semianimals
Engine: Unigine
Price: €/$ 12.99 – CDN$ 13.99

Wazzat: Cradle is a fascist, sci-fi first-person-view quest designed for right-handed players to explore the surrounding world. The story is built around the relations of the protagonist and a mechanical girl who by quirk of fate found themselves amidst the desert.

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Makes with the working

V-

I just did a doubletake at what J-man is about to bring up.
I can only confirm there is no 4K res options.
Yes, guys and goils; three of us have 4K displays and two /w a 980.
And aaand at 1080 it runs like butta /w everthing on 11 ..until you move.
Did I mention that it refuses to work with Steam overlay?
I hit Shift+Tab and the game locked the gerbil into the window and there was no way out.
Good old Ctrl+Alt+F2 to the rescue.

J-

No 4K option.
To be fair, that’s probably a good thing considering how shit this runs at 1080, on a 980
Hard pressed to be pushing 40 FPS on high

P-

I finished the tutorial and walked up to the train stop.
The FerPS went from 45ish down to 25 when I did a slow 360º.

M-

After 5-15 minutes of playing 45 fps suddenly drops to 5 fps.
Tried different drivers, rebooting, etc. #nope #patchplz #hahanever

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

They spent some proper time on the sounds and good on them!
It looks nice, really, really, nice.
Cohesive art design, this has it.
Hey! Look! Oil Rush water! Neat!
But something is missing.
Yeah, trees are missing limbs, Brad.

J-

It’s uningine, so it’s kind of pretty
The soundtrack is just kind of there though
Everything looks nice until you get up close and look at it
Might have blown my mind in 4k, but we’ll never know.

P-

The tutorial looked nice, if a little dark.
It did feel a little hand holdy, though.
There were sounds, I guess.
Nothing to write home about.

M-

Nice models, good geometry. Outside fields look natural.
Muted colors in most places makes things look old a worn.

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Control

V-

J-

It loses two chairs for it’s painful inventory management system
Holy fuck, for a game that requires you to combine items in various ways, you could have at least spent some time to not make it clunky as all hell.

P-

In 2015, a game that doesn’t allow you to rebind controls.
I might have given it two chairs if it had the arrow keys mapped to mirror WASD.
But it didn’t, Brad!
I can’t play your first person game if you force me to play with WASD.

M-

Stupid pick up the object and it floats in front of you mechanic.
While it’s floating there, you have no controls to orient it.

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FUN?

V-

This is Myst 3D.
Ironically Myst was composed /w hypercard (not really a game engine) and in 2015 this was composed /w UNIGINE (not really a game engine)
This is what I like to call a scrapbook game.
Where you spend a chunk-organ of time collecting bits-o-story
Unfortunately this often involves picking up and moving shite
Only Frictional knows how to do that properly, son.
The random ‘block games’ can eat a bag ‘o floppy dicks.
I ended up losing interest after an hour
After reading the endless complaints about how the game just STOPS (not really an ending) I have little incentive to finish it.

J-

Myst is an apt comparison for this
However, instead it distracting me from needing to wait for my therapist, this just made me bored
Click all the things to all the other things
The performance of the game doesn’t help with the experience either
It puts the lotion in the basket

P-

I didn’t play past walking up to the train stop thing.
I refuse to play elitist/fascist games that assume everyone is right handed, or has two symmetrical and functional hands. That’s a really bad move Brad.
Wanna know what the best part is?
They’re ignoring everyone who tells them about this.
Go to the Steam forums and look up Controls.
I also sent them an e-mail about it. No answer.
Well then,

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