akda

[h1]Atrocious physics puzzler, hosting invisible walls and occasionally requiring pixel-sharp solutions[/h1] I admit, I messed up launching this title. It is a conscious decision of mine that I do not purchase or play [i][url=https://store.steampowered.com/developer/snkl_studio]Snkl Studios[/url][/i] titles because they [i]usually[/i] look so bad. Somehow, I've both bought and added it to my playlist anyway. Now I know why I had that rule from first-hand experience. The base idea of [b]akda[/b] is actually workable: you have one or more balls, held by clamps. Releasing the ball, you maneuver girders to correct orientation to guide the balls to their respective baskets. Sometimes girders are breakable or freely moved, and sometimes blocks or boxes move automatically. It is these freely moved or moving girders that cause the most of the issues. [h1]Atrocious level design[/h1] Levels are usually either too easy, or physics nightmares where the freely moving girders have to be precisely in the right position to solve the puzzle. Not only that, the auto-moving blocks make this into a [i]timing task[/i]. And when you have to succeed 2 or 3 times in a row, it frankly sucks. Challenging, yes, but not in the [i]right, intellectually challenging way[/i] - just in the way that trial and error is challenging. Account for that girder orientations reset and you have to re-click them to right orientation each try. Once a ball has been released, the orientation cannot be changed. Both of these design decisions break the flow. In addition, there's sometimes invisible blocks, and the physics does not make sense. E.g. the moving blocks do not give momentum to the balls, instead they just [i]reflect[/i] off them, so the speed of the moving block does not come into it. This all makes for a frustrating experience. [h1]Resounding no[/h1] Thirty (30) levels lasted about 45 minutes for me, but mostly because of the physics-based trial & error: I knew the solution but the physics didn't "let me" perform it. It's a fairly easy game but incredibly annoying at times. Additionally, there's a slight case of achievement spam. Several achievements per level pop up throughout levels 1-10, until that ends and two achievements (for beating levels 20 and 30) remain. I could understand 1 achievement per completed level, but not this atrocity. Only good thing about them is that they could work for profile decoration purposes, since the game is not limited. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9997062/]~Twistorian Curator~[/url]