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The presentation is so wonderful, the puzzles filling themselves in delightfully, subtle and effective animations making things feel lively and interesting, alongside the jubilation of its success screens (Peggle, eat your bloody heart out). But saying that, I'm happy nearly all the time when it's just so damned upbeat. For me - I'm happy when it's at either extreme, rather than the woolly middle-ground. Which type you're after will certainly dictate how much you favour the game. Which is to say, it drifts from one sort of puzzle to another, within the same concept.

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At that point it might as well abandon the limits and just acknowledge it's entered full experimental territory. Then goes too loose again, and then finally finishes with puzzles of such mad complexity that you've got 200 moves and seven minutes. It's a shame, right up until you start the second pack of its puzzles, and it returns to trickiness crafted by limitations, not too much freedom. While Prismatica lends itself a bit more toward experimental moves than some puzzles, that agoraphobia remains. A beautifully designed puzzle doesn't need the number of moves to extend beyond 12, and by the time it does, the player is often left feeling too conscious that they can't be planning ahead any more. It starts giving you a limit of moves in the 30s, and time in the minutes, and you realise it's all become too unwieldy. Ten levels in to the first of four sets of 12, and it makes the mistake too many puzzle games fall into. (The only oddity is that menu buttons produce a discordant guitar pluck, which seems a wasted opportunity for even more aural brightness.)īut then goodness me, it gets tricky. Oh, and more glorious - only do okay in a level, and you'll get a subdued version of the same la-la song! Oh, I'm in love with that. Nor indeed click away from the game to write this, as it stops playing when it's in the background. The only problem is, so much do I enjoy the looping la-la song that I don't want to click to start the next puzzle. Complete it and it's a chorus of delighted 'LA LA LA-LA!'s as stars pop up, symbols crash and fireworks explode.

Except these woods are brightly coloured, with the Polyphonic Spree jumping out from behind trees.ĭuring the levels, charming music plays, the bright colours of the rotating wheels flip about for you to sort, and time and moves count down. Prismatica nails this, starting off with puzzles so simple you can't help but solve them, and then gradually leading you on a trail of breadcrumbs into the woods of trickiness. Although that does rather undersell just how nicely delivered the core concept is too.Ī sign of a well executed puzzle game is having you know what to do without reading screens of text or watching it play itself for you. But goodness me, if I don't want to keep going through its puzzles more for the happiness it exudes. It's essentially a Rubik's Cube concept, although on a far simpler 2D plane. It's not an original concept by a long shot. Ostensibly a game about rotating overlapping hexagons to move coloured tiles around, its real impact comes from the joyful bursts of colour and sound. I'm not sure my pre-8am brain was quite ready for the extraordinary cheerfulness that occupies every moment of Prismatica. As is my wont of an early morning, I like to look through the new puzzle games appearing on Steam, in search of treats to share with you, my bestest internet friends.

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