Tulpa

好玩

Tulpa is a mixture between a 2D platformer and a point-and-click adventure, with a heavy focus on puzzle solving. Basically, you play as 2 characters, and you can swap control at any time. One of them is physical, and can push and pull things, and the other is ghostly, so he floats and interacts with far objects using the mouse. It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t think the 2 genres blend well. Switching from a more standard platforming to a point and click style, where you need to search for the interactable objects isn’t smooth. But since this is more focused on the puzzle elements, it’s not a big deal. Just a bit awkward. There’s a lot of variety in the puzzles, but some of them are unintuitive and frustrating, because a lot of times you are supposed to figure out how the puzzle is supposed to work. A lot of times I progressed through trial and error or by clicking on stuff by accident. And that isn’t a sign of good design, like here are the rules, now solve the stuff. It has a lot of out-of-box thinking, but mostly not in a good way. Still, it’s a short and enjoyable experience, if you can get it for cheap.

謎解きと覚えゲー。クリアまで2時間弱。 急に物が落ちてきたり、少し離れ離れになるだけですぐ粉々になってしまう。 わかりにくい謎も多いし、結局よくわからない雰囲気が漂う世界。 実績は条件さえわかれば楽に解除できます。

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I love this game, the music is amazing and the puzzles are very very clever!

This game feels more like a passion project rather than a marketable game. There is nothing wrong with it per se, but a lot of things are feeling off. From the rather unnerving atmosphere, the shortage of music, the eeriness of sound design, the "floaty" controls (which is ironic given that, you know, one of the characters you control literally floats), short run time, even to the fact that the devs made up an alphabet from scratch for just three-four occurences in-game, it feels rather unpolished, but made with the sole purposed of not being enjoyable, but to try and get to know the feeling of grief (at least their abstract version of it). All in all, this is a game about pain and loss, which is a short journey, but maybe not in the way you expect it to be.

7/10