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Though cute with some nice ideas, I wish this game explored its mechanics more. The first half of levels aren't really puzzles, forcing you to do the solution. Throughout the entire game, lots of level elements are introduced before the previous ones are actually capitalised on too, creating a game with a lot of potential that doesn't really start harnessing any of it. Despite this, the final level has some well designed twists and turns, including multiple different approaches that can be eliminated using some foresight and logic from what the game had taught you so far. The art style is nice and achievement system is also a fun additions, kudos for the extra effort that went into those!
Masterpiece, fitting the ideas needed in the full solution into 5 different levels would be hard on its own, but this is truly something special. You even discover concepts in the order they would be taught by a more linear game, and it's certainly by design. And it even has incorrect pathways that are wrong due to principles of normal Sokoban (won't spoil)? This is insane!
bounce a ball on bob ross painting idubbztv whos painting bob ross etc comments · Replied to Zwoolk in bounce a ball on bob ross painting idubbztv whos painting bob ross etc comments
Had to use a small hint, and I'm a little mixed. On the one hand, the mechanic used is very interesting, and not touched upon in SSR. But on the other hand, the block not falling is softly breaking what felt like a very fundamental rule. Maybe the puzzle, using one-turn movements, could have used an enemy as a timer with you setting the blocks up beforehand?
Ok I've returned to this game after 2 years after beating what are considered to be the hardest puzzle games in the market and "around the corner" is STILL trumping me. I've seen simple puzzles with seemingly impossible setups countless times, but god damnit this is getting ridiculous. Good game btw
As much as I enjoy this game, I feel that the mechanics are not fleshed out and combined to the extent they could have, rather each "world" gets three core ideas/levels before the game introduces yet another mechanic. This is especially true because of the metroidvania style the progression uses as well as the secret bonus levels scattered throughout the game, allowing for a lot more freedom in levels depending on what your "moveset" is at the time. If this ever gets a full release, I'd love to see more levels in each world with their own creative ideas, rather than a bunch of worlds with many more half-developed elements. Despite this, this is definitely one of the best free puzzlers on itch.io and I had a lot of fun with it
Though it has around three times fewer levels than the first safe robber, this game not only has far greater QoL and technical quality, but its duel-safe manipulation and the new addition of multi-push allows for tougher, more airtight and more thoughtfully designed puzzles. Though I prefer the field hubworld, the aesthetic improvements cannot be ignored either. This combined with nice touches, such as settings/quit buttons, the puzzles looking like real houses, ambient music, not being able to see the edge of the map and many bug fixes puts this over the first game by a large margin. Good game!
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Ok it is kinda hard to discuss through itch comments but on the subject of a tutorial: I really like how you want to make the tutorial tricky, and how you gradually introduce mechanics. But I think you should have doubled down on that and made it a bit more of a slower and more silent tutorial. Starting on the map is a little intimidating too. The first level should just be purely movement based, no rabbits, no option wheels, just showing how you can't go over pits and slide around instead of stepping. It would be won by just sliding offscreen. Then you would do level one but you activate it from behind to make it more clear what's happening. You would then do a variant where you need to actively turn it and then turn it again, a small leap from the previous level. Then it introduces touch triggering but with the first level of the current model. Then would come a seemingly obvious level that has a fakeout solution where you twist the knob backwards, so not only are you taught that you can turn them back but it would make for a neat puzzle. To go more in depth I couldn't really continue through itch, sry. Also, this is just my first idea, so take it with a grain of salt