Aura: Fate of the Ages

<아우라: 시대의 운명> 이 조작감을 버텨낼 수 있는 인내심을 가진 사람이 있다면 결혼 배우자로 고려해 볼 것. 난 35분 만에 하차. Quern 비슷해서 구매한건데 20년전 게임은 할 게 못 된다.

Classic Myst-Style graphical adventure game! It's got immensely satisfying puzzles, moody music, and although the storyline is a bit silly it's still got a unique feel to the sweeping and dreamlike environments.

If you enjoy early 2000 point & click adventures and this is on sale, just dive in. It's from an era which expected you to have a notepad and pen handy while you played, so it's a treasure from a dead era. The negative reviews don't quite do Aura justice. It does have some rough edges, the story really is shallow, and there are a few moments which will make you say "why did they put this here?!". You will be sweeping your mouse around to find hotspots and fiddling around to find the travel markers. But when Aura shines, it's really worth it. There's no moon logic. Sometimes you need to take a step back and view things a different way. Sometimes you need to look around for clues. Sometimes for items. Sometimes you missed something. But there is always a reasonable and satisfying answer to every puzzle. Finally, some important, spoiler-free tips. - The Esc key skips travel cutscenes (take your time and enjoy them, but after you've gone up and down the same staircase a few times, respect your time and skip them) - Save often, after every puzzle or breakthrough. This is an old game: there are no autosaves, and there is at least one point where you may crash. - When you're stuck, take a break from trying to break the puzzle and look around. There will be routes you overlooked and items you may have missed. - Pace yourself. If you try to finish this in one sitting, you'll frustrate yourself and give up. Tomorrow you'll see something you didn't before. - Take notes, play detective. Either get yourself a notepad and pen or use the Steam notepad in the shift-tab overlay. It's absolutely vital for some parts of the game to keep track of the solution you're building. You'll also have a fun document to read over again to see your thought process. I'll leave you with just one experience I've had with Aura so far. At one point, I spent 10 minutes taking notes of how a machine was behaving, trying to figure out if it had any patterns. It looked random, no matter what I tried. Exhausted, I flicked through my notes to see if there was another puzzle I could solve to take a break. And there it was - a puzzle I had spent 15 minutes on the day before. Putting my notes together, I solved both of them instantly. Take notes!