MACHINARIUM PS4 UPDATE
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If you have any familiarity with genre classics like The Secret of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle or even recent Telltale efforts like Back to the Future, you should have a basic understanding of how the gameplay works. Machinarium is a hyper stylized point and click adventure game. Released: Octo(PC, Mac, Linux), Septem(PS3), Ma(PS Vita) Machinarium (PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, PS3, PS Vita, iOS, Android)

MACHINARIUM PS4 UPDATE

Much to my surprise, I’m now reviewing Machinarium years after its debut because of its new PC update (available today), which developer Amanita Design has dubbed the “Definitive Edition.” Seeing as how I’ve almost committed the game to memory, I think I have a good understanding of why this title is so enjoyable and how this new PC version really does feel like the best way to enjoy it. Somehow, it has become my comfort food for when I’m down and need something familiar and charming to play.

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I gave it a shot after it was free on PlayStation Plus and then grabbed it in a Humble Bundle before acquiring the PS4 copy last year. This review is for the PlayStation 3 version of the game.Machinarium is a game I’ve somehow managed to play through numerous times. For more info on our review policy click here. I’m sure they’ll offer helpful advice even if they watch you play it.Ī copy of this game was provided by the publisher for review purposes. It won’t convince people who aren’t fans of this style of game to dive right in, but they might just find themselves unable to take their eyes off it either way. Machinarium is certainly not for everybody, but those who find themselves inexorably drawn to Adventure Games will find that there’s a lot to love in it. They occasionally frustrate, but when you solve them its absolutely fantastic. These moments in Machinarium are relatively few and far between though, with the actual brain teasers taking up the vast majority of the gameplay. The game can’t escape some of the trappings of the genre though, and you can expect to carry around a bunch of items in your inventory, and when worst comes to worst, attempt to combine every single one of them in hopes of finding the answer to a particularly taxing puzzle. While you will find yourself traversing the game’s world with a point and click interface, you’ll find yourself playing a game of Tic Tac Toe, solving shape based puzzles, and even playing a low-fi version of space invaders on your travels. Gameplay-wise, Machinarium is more akin to a mixture of Professor Layton and Monkey Island than a traditional adventure game. With the right sound system behind it, Machinarium provides an eerily soothing soundscape. The sound is equally wonderful, with a beautiful score and various environmental effects serving to enhance the game to an exceptional degree. The game really is beautiful in motion, with every nook and cranny of the city drawn impeccably and filled with life, so to speak. The occasional thought balloon will appear showing Josef’s feelings a the time, but Machinarium does a lot of exposition through its environment and wonderfully expressive characters. The plot is wonderfully simple and told without any dialogue at all, the game’s exposition preferring to be shown rather than spoken. Once you’ve reassembled yourself, you set off for the city to rescue your robot girlfriend, and perhaps save the whole city in the process. Playing as a robot called Josef, you find yourself dumped on a scrapheap with little but a seemingly Mary Poppins-esque stomach to carry your items in. But, if you’re willing to overlook the game’s familiar genre trappings, you’ll find an experience in Machinarium that you soon won’t forget. Its puzzles are long and often obtuse, its point and click gameplay ill suited to a controller, and it sometimes devolves into a pixel hunt. Posted by Ben on September 23rd, 2012 | 5 Comments | Tags: MachinariumĪt first glance, Machinarium is everything that people who hate adventure games criticise about the genre.

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