Colorgrid

I just finished the game after slowly picking at it for months and it was definitely interesting. I think that most of the levels are intuitive but there were some that had me stuck for quite some time and a few that made me turn the game off for a while and come back with a fresh pair of eyes to find the solution. The last level seemed impossible to me but instead of taking a break I chose to just stick it out because I wanted to finish. The solution felt like cheating to me but it was the only way that it could be solved as far as I could tell which feels very unsatisfying to me. I liked that every time I got stuck prior to this that it felt like I was racking my brain to find a simple solution to what felt like a complex problem, but the final level feels unwarranted because the solution is never expressed anywhere else in the whole game. I will talk about the specifics below so I'm gonna mark it as a spoiler. [spoiler] In every other level you have to set down all of the pieces on a space. The light turrets, mirrors, and brackets are all forced to be placed [i] somewhere [/i]. In the last level, the only solution is to pick up the extra mirror and hold it while the lasers finish the loop with the immovable mirrors. At first I thought the level was unsolvable until I had been holding the mirror for a few seconds to figure out where to put it and I realized the lasers were still showing so i just rotated the original mirror into place and picked it up again and the level solved. I feel like the devs intended an "Aha!" moment here but it simply feels like an exploit to the system the prior 69 levels set up for you, it would've felt much sweeter if an extremely early level had you do something similar and the final level a callback or if there was an inventory/trashcan system that was introduced but never used, but that isn't the case. If I'm not mistaken(and I could be since i played the game over the course of a few months) other levels don't solve until you put all the pieces down even when you have the solution dialed in. [/spoiler]