Into The Light Darkness?

Review by creatingames on Wednesday, April 22nd 2015

MAT DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW VIOLET SKIES IN RETURN

Yes, that's just a deal with mat I made; a review for a review. So he wanted me to review Into The Darkness. So what do we expect guys? A dark game maybe? WRONG. This game has no lighting effects, meaning it is completely light! Good one mat! Anyway, Into the Darkness is the name of a game I'd expect my cat to come up with, I mean, into the Darkness? Okay, I have got an 'Escape the Darkness' I know, but I came up with that when I was in primary school (or whatever you guys call your first school). And the thumbnail is in convincing. It's a bit bland and it makes me think it's some sort of action game, it's actually puzzle. Anyway, the fact that I'm knocking the title and thumbnail when the game has 8,000 views makes me come across a) hypocritical and b) jealous, seeing as my featured game Violet Skies has got 200 views in about two weeks of being featured. I know, I really better think more about my thumbnail and title next time. But has mat got 24k views on any of his games... NO! Waves II has :D Oh wait, I just remembered we collabed on that one.

So Into the Darkness is a puzzle game. The annoying thing is it probably took me about 10 minutes what to do at the start of the game. I was going all over the game thinking, mat, you sure this is possible, but I eventually got there. You see the hardest puzzle of the game was probably at the start, when it really should start off being easier, that's how I see it anyway. What I do like about this puzzle game is it isn't too hard and eventually, you do solve these puzzles. You see, I absolutely bleep at puzzle games, so I quite liked this one because I actually got somewhere for once. I'm making a puzzle game at the minute so hopefully I can take this game on board for some inspiration. What I am going to achieve though is making the puzzles not too hard because as a player I'm sure you'd want to get a decent amount into the game.

Some of the puzzles are really hard to execute. I mean, where's the axe, how am I supposed to chop his head head. Nooooo, not like that, what I mean is just a pain in the bleep to actually complete the puzzle providing you know what to do. There's three situations where this happened, with the yellow switch, jumping on to the green switch and the puzzle where you need to shoot invisible sandblocks with a car especially. I mean, these sort of situations make me want to just... I DON'T KNOW THEY INFURIATE ME AHHHHHH! I'd like to throw a mouse at my screen, but I've broken two computer screens costing me about �80 and probably about 50 mouses, so not doing that again. I expect you're thinking how have those screens survived. Nah, I chuck them at the wall most of the time. Why am I talking about all this? Anyway, generally I did like how the puzzles were made though because if you do fail them the first time round you can just try again, and mat did this well by pretty much giving you endless powerups, because the last thing you want is your mousegun running out or whatever.

Mat also did well to stop you cheating in puzzles. You can't just find a away to sword jump and skip the puzzle or find an alternative way, so that's good, you've got to play the game properly. And I also like how well spread out this game is, not too cramped, it's nicely spread out, just how I like a puzzle game to be. I know I said about some puzzles being too hard, some of them were way to obvious. For instance when you get a life you know you've got to kill yourself with the crusher because otherwise why would the crusher be there on its own? But what is good that it isn't right next to the life, you do have to actually look for it, so it isn't mega obvious. I like the multiple choice places to explore in this map meaning it's not puzzle after puzzle you have to go back through the game really making the map fit together well.

Ratings (Out of five):

So this game deserves a 4/5. Good job, one of my favourite puzzle plats I've played actually seeing as I finally managed to get somewhere in this game. Definitely feature worthy and mat please, please make more games. Thank you. Goodbye everyone!

P.S Mat, don't forget my review in return :P