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Welcome 2024, I hope this is not how you mean to go on.
Space Station Silicon Valley is an absolute gem of an idea. You're a computer chip on a station full of robot animals. Go forth and become the animals to solve puzzles and platform and complete stages.
Unfortunately, the gem is poorly cut. The platforming is painful and awkward to control, the camera is frankly bad. The puzzles are often so obtuse and so tied to the poor platforming that I was constantly saying "This can't possibly be the solution, right?" and then looking it up and either it absolutely was but it wasn't working properly, or it wasn't but the actual solution was deeply obtuse.
I lost faith and confidence in the game's ability to provide a fair puzzle rapidly, which is a bad thing when your game is mostly puzzle-solving.
On the whole I'd say this is perhaps a third of a great game. It absolutely got worse over time, the game not understanding its own weaknesses and insisting they were strengths. I didn't want to walk away as frustrated by it as I did.
As always, I streamed this and there's archives.
Space Station Silicon Valley is an absolute gem of an idea. You're a computer chip on a station full of robot animals. Go forth and become the animals to solve puzzles and platform and complete stages.
Unfortunately, the gem is poorly cut. The platforming is painful and awkward to control, the camera is frankly bad. The puzzles are often so obtuse and so tied to the poor platforming that I was constantly saying "This can't possibly be the solution, right?" and then looking it up and either it absolutely was but it wasn't working properly, or it wasn't but the actual solution was deeply obtuse.
I lost faith and confidence in the game's ability to provide a fair puzzle rapidly, which is a bad thing when your game is mostly puzzle-solving.
On the whole I'd say this is perhaps a third of a great game. It absolutely got worse over time, the game not understanding its own weaknesses and insisting they were strengths. I didn't want to walk away as frustrated by it as I did.
As always, I streamed this and there's archives.
