An extremely strange game. It has a really stylish noir setting, and really fascinating visuals. The story is fairly nonsensical with lots of science terms around. Essentially, the entities that make up the universe are noir figures and due to an act of cheating, Miss Mass gets shot at by Golden Boy (causing the Big Bang) and No Man is trying to save her. It’s a very abstract game.
The game is described as a “point and click adventure” but is more of a visual novel, most of the game is pushing random buttons or walking to the right. There are three sections where you have to hold A and spin the analogue stick for around 2 minutes, times where you just have to tap A constantly to make things progress. The “point and click” sections (which are literally just point and click, with two sections where you use the only items you have on something) could do with better controls on a controller – Using the right stick and trigger would feel more natural than using the left stick and A button.
It felt like there were two actual puzzles in the game. One of them has you do random things until you figure out the trick, then repeat that trick. The other one has you setting dials based on instructions, then introduces unknown quantities so you just mess with them until it works.
The visuals and music are magnificent, but the gameplay mostly amounts to “tap random buttons until the game proceeds”.
Poor
