Lucid Cycle

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Das Spiel war wie ein Traum... Ein Fiebertraum. XD Für 0,99€ Fand ich es ganz OK.

[h1]#tinygamereviews[/h1] Like if you told a talented artist to create a short game experience showing what LSD is like, but then they just based it on the things they heard in middle school about drugs and Alice in Wonderland and called it good. [list] [*][b][u]Overall Score[/u][/b]: 2/5 [/list] [hr][/hr] [h1]Full Review[/h1] [table] [tr] [td]Playability[/td] [td]3/5[/td] [td]All you do is walk and occasionally jump (when it's enabled). Movement is generally pretty slow.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Difficulty[/td] [td]2/5[/td] [td]Super easy. Barely an inconvenience (except some of the jumping, when that's a thing).[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Graphics[/td] [td]4/5[/td] [td]Most of the game is really pretty, though some of the lighting effects are lackluster.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Sound[/td] [td]3/5[/td] [td]It's okay. Fitting for a strange dreamscape.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Story[/td] [td]N/A[/td] [td]There doesn't appear to be one, except what you imagine. No written words.[/td] [/tr] [/table] [i]Lucid Cycle[/i] is a pretty walking simulator that doesn't make sense. It [i]shouldn't[/i]. It's supposed to be a dream. Game-wise, it isn't much. Story-wise, it's almost nothing. Visually, it's gorgeous (though a bit more system-intensive than you'd think...). For a "walking simulator," though, it's kind of lackluster - there's not much to really discover, and the invisible walls everywhere keep you on-rails enough to question the point of exploring a dream in the first place. [table equalcells=1] [tr] [th]BEST[/th] [th]WORST[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td][i]Lucid Cycle[/i] is just really, really pretty.[/td] [td]The inconsistent controls and gameplay. You can't always jump. You can't crouch. You can't really move fast. Invisible walls are everywhere.[/td] [/tr] [/table] [list] [*][b][u]In-Game Purchases[/u][/b]: None [*][b][u]Learning Curve[/u][/b]: Easyish. Though the controls and gameplay change occasionally, it doesn't have to announce anything - for example, you'll [i]know[/i] when jumping is enabled because you [i]have[/i] to jump. [*][b][u]Replayability[/u][/b]: Low [*][b][u]Recommended Purchase Price[/u][/b]: $1 tops. [/list]

[h1] Lucid Cycle [/h1] Atmosferik - Yürüme simülatörü temaları ile tanıdığım Tonguç Bodur'dan farklı bir oyun. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2829569227 Her rüyada bambaşka bir yere gittiğimiz , sabah olunca çizim yaptığımız ve bu rüyaların sonunda çizimi bitirdiğimiz bir oyun. Bulmaca temalı , harika bir atmosferi olan , kısa güzel bir yapım. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2829568897

Close enough. Welcome back LSD Dream Emulator.

Lucid Cycle Positives: + Beautiful graphics + Good sound and great music + Very nice atmosphere + A lot of nice and varied levels + Makes absolutely no sense at all + The puzzles + All the weirdness + No footstep sounds + A piece of art + Lasts a bit longer than other games from TB Negatives: - Not all parts are awesome (but none are bad) - Some levels are way too short - Some parts you cant move or do anything in - Does not last long enough in general, I want more! I have played a lot of TB games, and this game is by far his best work (even better than Bottle: Pilgrim Redux). It shows that he is a great artist. I can understand if someone dislike this game, because its so weird and crazy. But thats what makes it so great. I did not get bored once while playing it. It has a lot of short but beautiful, dreamlike and mysterious levels, and you always wonder whats next. I was sad when it was over, because I wanted more. Please make an even weirder sequel TB! I reccommend this game to every weirdo out there, and art gamers alike. If you want something out of the ordinary, this is the game for you. Total Score: 8.5/10

Wow. I hated this. Lucid Cycle is one of those Steam Sale impulse purchases I really didn't think about. I saw the pictures, didn't look any more into it and added it to my wishlist. But Lucid Cycle was **so** bad that I'm going to start vetting my games a lot more moving forward. I am going to support fewer indie developers as a direct result of this game and I feel really bad about that, but also I don't want to give money to projects that have less than bare minimum effort. So what is Lucid Cycle? Technically speaking, it's a walking simulator through a bunch of asset flips. In terms of the narrative, you play 2-4 dreams (some are walking simulators, some are shooters, some are movement puzzles) and then you wake up and talk to an AI lamp who interprets one of your dreams. Then you go to an art studio, "Press E to Paint" and repeat until the game is over. If that sounds extremely tedious, it is. It really, really is. Lucid Cycle is only 90 minutes and overstays it's runtime by about 45 minutes. Worst of all is that Lucid Cycle is not only boring, but it's buggy and ugly. There's no sound effects in dreams, just music. The animations are whatever barebones were included with the asset flips -- so when you shoot the giant leech it is instantly replaced with a donut without a puff of smoke or confetti or anything that would require slightly more effort than none. Every "effect" in this game is either resizing assets or just turning off collisions and having them move through other objects. It is one of the visually ugliest and lowest effort things I've seen in a Steam game that costs money. On top of that, there are frequent bugs that can softlock you and cause you to return to the main menu. This definitely goes down as my worst gaming experience of the year. I would be embarrassed to publish this, especially when there are so many Steam games that cost as little as $1 and offer a vastly superior experience.