Dream Machine offer a simple quote from “metropolis” continues a slight hint of Machinarium and ends breaking drama – full width drawn here of gears. It is strange that Dream Machine before its release on iOS not managed to collect an armful of awards in the format puzzles for PC (or PS4, there is love). But the more valuable current, exclusive to mobile made on two heads above, than adopted here.
The little robot stops spinning mechanisms – his write off, but too late: the creature just had an Epiphany and looks at the world through different eyes. Within a dozen chapters driven by childish curiosity (well, and automatic wheel track), the robot learns all the secrets about the society where he lived for many years – and wonder how primitive was his perception.
Despite a wordless narrative, the story in Dream Machine. But much more important is the nested message: the game can be seen as another countercultural statement –down with corporations and totalitarianism! but it is not quite true: it is still more about finding himself in our world. Even if the world (and you) made of iron, steel, gear and infernal mechanisms.
Gently diffuse the metaphor is implemented in the spirit of national Monument Volley game – the robot wanders too elongated on the line of levels that are suspended in the middle of nowhere. Pipe, leading the robot to a new life, cleverly intertwined, and for the second hour Dream Machine resembles (as its inspirer) Marius paintings of Escher – all intertwined, the sea of threads.
But to enjoy (or puzzle, trying to assemble in my head abstract puzzle) once – unlike the heroine of “the Monument”, the local Wally runs himself. Therefore, it is necessary to have time to twirl ingenious mechanisms, while the hero does not run to an unsolved piece and turned back.
Puzzles themselves – a common place for puzzles made by talented people. Spin the lever here, to change the bridge in some places here, twirl platform here. The problem you have if any, will be exclusively in matters of orientation in space – sometimes in Dream Machine really disorientates, forgetting where the floor and the ceiling. Especially if you have not had Affairs with dense geometry and, say, flight art.
Looks like Dream Machine, as you probably know, is fine – screenshots fascinating. But in motion the game even better, the picture evokes even tactile hunger: each cog, each lever, each small miracle of the industrial thoughts I want to touch it, to twist and twirl personally. Rare, actually, property for games with touch controls – usually world on the screen of the smartphone is felt with great difficulty. And here – as a living.
If you’ve read up to this paragraph, it means you at least liked. Well, we have another (final) a reason to buy the Dream Machine – the app costs 75 rubles. In-app purchases, of course not. After the ruble collapsed, such prices in the App Store either disappear altogether, or emerge in the days quite so desperate discounts. So capture the moment – brilliant in all respects puzzle for funny by today’s standards money.
