But all-in-all, Manifold Garden is fantastic. Sure, there are a few minor setbacks, the main one being problems with the pacing. Absolutely brilliant visuals make way for genuinely engaging levels that had me scratching my head and pumping my fist in victory. What I do know is make no mistake this one should not be missed if you consider yourself a riddle aficionado. I don’t know if I would say I had a “blast” with Manifold Garden, but that’s only because I suck at puzzle games. Regardless, Manifold Garden is a treat that puzzler fans will easily digest. This didn’t happen often, but it was enough for me to think there must have been something that slipped past the testers. I also ran into some difficulty with the game not always registering my input when picking up a block. Minor audio hiccups with pepper themselves throughout your play-through. Issues do arise in Manifold Garden, but nothing that detracts from the overall experience. It’s so good that I hope William Chyr Studio now has plans for a skydiving game in the very near future. Manifold Garden is an occasionally clever puzzle game in terms of its gameplay, but its an absolute marvel in terms of its visuals, sound and incredible. The wind screaming past as you plummet both to and away from where you leaped is flawless.
If there was a saving grace to be found in the sound design, surely it’s in the excellent technique used to simulate falling at high speed. Though, from start to finish, it all felt as if it blended into one big piece of music. Synth-like tones are used to create a futuristic vibe that permeates every aspect of Manifold Garden. There’s nothing wrong with it, per se, but there isn’t much to find exciting about it, either. Even there were times that I was celebrating not because I had finally found a solution but because I persevered without turning the system off. It would have been much appreciated to feel as if the difficulty was on a steady incline instead of a rollercoaster. I would often run into a puzzle or two that were relatively easy to solve and then inevitably hit a brick wall. Though, I don’t feel like the pacing was as smooth as it could have been. Don’t get me wrong a lot of them strike the right balance between challenging and accessible. It has plenty of moments where it brings vibrancy and bursts of colour into the equation too and it really does make for something special.I wish the same could be said about the puzzles themselves. There’s this element of impossibility to the way that everything is designed, but, much like Esher’s work, there is a method to the madness and the way that it all ties into puzzle-solving is sublime. The Escher-inspired world is simply mind-blowing to explore, with the array of stylish and geometrically intricate locales that surround you feeling mesmerising to gaze upon. The puzzling of Manifold Garden is enjoyable and offers more than enough to keep players hooked in, but the true star of the show are the game’s visuals. Way he has tied them into the ‘impossible’ environmental design of the world.
It shows that a lot of thought has gone into the puzzleĭesign of the game and developer William Chyr deserves a lot of praise for the Yourself to solve puzzles as you fall never stopped feeling both ingenious and There’s something undeniablyĬool about being able to walk on the walls and ceilings around you (even if itĬould feel a little disorientating at times on the Nintendo Switch), whilstįalling through never-ending cycles of the environment and cleverly manoeuvring Puzzles was the way that players can defy gravity. One aspect of the game that always impressed me when solving There are additional clever ideas that come into the mix as you progress and the complexity of the environments you explore will certainly keep you on your toes too, but for the most part the puzzling itself is pretty straightforward.
Of course, the fact that you’re warping gravity to walk on any surface does complicate matters and you’ll certainly face more than a few head-scratching moments during gameplay (you can expect to be stuck a LOT), but the concept itself is fairly easy to grasp. The puzzling of Manifold Garden is actually pretty simple in design, with the core gameplay mechanic based around moving different coloured blocks and positioning them in specific spaces in the environment. 0 0 Read Time: 4 Minute, 56 Second Here we are today with my Manifold Garden review on the PS5. The way that everything seems to be structured in an impossible yet beautifully
I feel like I’ve never playedĪnything quite like it – not necessarily from a gameplay perspective, but in Uncovering the secrets of its wonderful world. Manifold Garden challenges players to explore anĪrray of insane environments, all whilst solving puzzles, defying gravity, and
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