![]() ![]() This is all done subtly and never forced – if you don’t go poking around in some of the game’s environments as I did, some of these messages could have easily gone unnoticed. Occasionally a very GLaDOS sounding voice will reveal how you have “…deviated from the route” or are in a “dream paradox”, and this all helps to add to the sense that something has gone wrong in a very Inception-like way as you build to the game’s climax. ![]() Pillow Castle has done a good job of creating a sense of foreboding too, by using a juxtaposition of a calming piano score against the occasional message you find scrawled on a wall or the various cassette decks that add a simple narrative to your exploits. Puzzles are built up cleverly without being overly repetitive or tiresome, and you are given the time you need to work out what you have to do for yourself without a hint flashing up or a condescending voice mocking you as you sit in your pants wondering what to do next. The game itself doesn’t hold your hand and hit you over the head with solutions. One, in particular, had me scratching my head, but when I finally cracked it the sense of accomplishment was up there with some of the best puzzle experiences I have had in gaming. Although having said that there are a few rooms that do test your patience. ![]() Superliminal has a pretty decent learning curve and it introduces the puzzles in such a way that, although challenging, they never feel stupidly so, and the environment is interesting enough to keep you exploring whenever you get stuck. The whole idea is so simple but works beautifully in its execution. By picking up objects and then positioning them in your field of view so that they either look larger or smaller, you can drop the object for it to take on these new properties that you can then use to access areas that were once out of reach. Using perspective and some clever physics, you have to use a simple but ingenious idea of finding and enlarging objects to escape the many rooms you find yourself in. As you delve deeper, exploring what is essentially your character’s dream, things do take a turn and the game does have fun messing with your head and using various stereotypes about dreaming to do so.Įarly on it is clear that there is something very much akin to Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland about Superliminal, in that things that were big can be small, and small things can be big, just like when Alice experiments with those psychedelic mushrooms after being led astray by that overly happy cat. By placing the game in a dream, developers Pillow Castle have come up with a pretty handy way of explaining the surreal environments you find yourself in, and the puzzles you are faced with in Superliminal are original and challenging. Superliminal starts as you would imagine – with things going belly up pretty quickly. Superliminal is an example of one done well, and although it doesn’t reach the lofty heights of some of its predecessors in the genre, it is a fun and original entry just the same. ![]() As a narrative framing device, it is a tried and tested way of piecing together the various puzzle rooms you encounter as you make your ways from one room to the next, and by now, the whole idea of a science experiment gone wrong as a way to explain why you have to escape a series of interconnected rooms is pretty much a genre all on its own, but for the simple reason that when they are done well, they work. You play a nameless research subject, taking part in an experiment looking at dream research. The premise is one we have seen plenty of times before by this point. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Superliminal is an interesting and original puzzle game that uses the environment and the idea of perception to create some genuinely clever puzzles. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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