![]() It might seem a little steep to pay $14.99 for a game that’s only a couple hours long, but I assure you that this surreal, handcrafted masterpiece is well worth it. Gorogoa is a lavish work of art that masterfully weaves a compelling tale while providing a distinctive puzzle solving experience unlike any other. I strangely didn’t feel cheated by the lack of definitive answers instead I felt enticed to come up with my conclusions on what transpired over the lifetime of this boy. The game is fairly vague with the actual story and leaves a lot of it up to interpretation as you journey with the boy over the course of his life spanning the 20th century. You’ll witness much, from war-torn landscapes to spiritual discoveries. It is a reasonably short game and I would highly recommend that you go through it in one continuous playthrough to get the best sense of the story as you can. To solve the puzzle, the player rearranges tiles on a grid, but each tile is also a window into a different part. Gorogoa is a seamless game with no loading screens or separate chapters. Gorogoa is a lovingly hand-illustrated world suspended inside of a unique puzzle. While this might not sound very grandiose, I found this to be a wise choice so as not to take away from the beauty of the game and instead make a more impactful contribution to the overall experience.ĭiscovering the ways everything links together is enthralling. There is no voice acting in it whatsoever, but instead it relies on real life sounds to give the images depth and a purposefully minimalist musical score. The sound design in Gorogoa is excellent. ![]() The game evolves and makes you think about how the pictures actually relate to each other and fit together I’ll admit that when the game first starts, it feels like a lot of the puzzles are solved by just using trial and error, but after a short time you’ll find that that method doesn’t work anymore. For example, you can zoom in on a shining star in a constellation and drag an image of an empty lantern over it and when the pieces overlap properly, the lantern will light up and cause a moth to fly to it and lead to a chain reaction of events in the other frame. It’s that cool.Gorogoa is entirely illustrated by hand and features a puzzle system in which you have drawings laid out across four panels, which you can then zoom in and out of and drag the panels over to one another in the hopes of connecting them in a shared way. Watch the trailer to get an idea of what I’m talking about, but then head to the App Store and pick it up. If you read the story behind the game, it’s quite inspirational to those of us who try to make things and keep failing. Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game. The artwork, animation, and coding were all done by one guy who had a dream to make this game and succeeded. Jury’s out.Īfter playing until way too late last night, I can’t recommend Gorogoa enough. This could be the way the developer intended it to be played, or it could be a sign that I’m very dumb. It’s also very difficult and I find that I’m getting farther via just experimenting rather than using logic to figure anything out. Impeccably simple, yet satisfyingly complex. It’s an incredibly hard game to describe because I’ve never played anything like it before, and that’s not hyperbole. The gameplay of Gorogoa is wholly original, comprised of lavishly illustrated panels that players arrange and combine in imaginative ways to solve puzzles. You’re not sure what you’re supposed to do, but once you figure out the first little puzzle where a window that was in one image now frames something else in another, you’ll be hooked. ![]() I just reread that paragraph and it sounds like a hot mess, which is kind of what playing Gorogoa feels like. The gameplay of Gorogoa is wholly original, comprised of lavishly illustrated panels. You can zoom in or swipe on individual scenes to change your vantage point and, most importantly, reveal transparent sections of each image that can overlap other images, making something new. The difference in Gorogoa is each of the four panes is a different scene and part of the story you’ve fallen into. It’s like one of those sliding tile puzzles where you need to unjumble the pieces to make an image. ![]() Gorogoa is a puzzle game and the gameplay is simple: there are four squares that you slide about and that’s it. Would Gorogoa sit on a virtual shelf, unplayed, or would the gameplay match the visuals? Gorogoa was released earlier this week and the screenshots are incredible–even the icon is cool as hell–so I immediately jumped on it. I do this with board games all the time, and have shelves of games with gorgeous art that I never play because they’re dull as sin or just not something I could ever introduce to my game group. ![]() Every now and then you’ll see a screenshot for a game and realize you need to buy it even without knowing what the hell the game is about. ![]()
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