Myst 3 ps2 review cracked#

I've cried out for more Nintendo-style whimsy on PC in the past, but unlike a Nintendo game, there's no clever, coherent world building. I don't mind that it rejects newfangled things like 'lighting' and 'textures'-visual simplicity is an asset where precision jumping is required-and I don't mind how cheerful and cute it is. I had few technical problems outside of occasional frame dropping in windowed mode, and that it refused to save my resolution setting, but I never fell in love with Lovely Planet's lovely planet. My glowing praise for Lovely Planet only dims for its presentation. ShapelandД«eating a level in that autonomic trance feels amazing, and I even enjoyed the cruelest stages, sore wrists and all. The enemies always behave the same and the physics never surprises me, and that predictability makes Lovely Planet solvable by bashing my head against it until conscious thought is replaced with pure eye-hand mastery. The mechanics are all so simple that I can practically see the code as a homing cube closes in on me, languidly halving its distance, and then again until it smacks into my face.

Myst 3 ps2 review cracked#

Later, I'll bound across jump pads blasting three or four projectiles out of the air in milliseconds, feeling roughly like I've cracked the Matrix.

I learn the first jump-using Lovely Planet's total air control to strafe and spin mid-leap-and then I can repeat it, and then I move on to the next problem. And then, through brute force repetition, I do it.

There is no damn way it is seriously asking me to hit a damn jump pad, spin around, shoot a damn apple, turn back, shoot the damn blob on the next platform, and nail the next damn jump.

The five areas gently introduce new concepts, then escalate to challenges I sometimes thought were mistakes.