Tetragon Reviews

I would recommend this game, but it has several serious flaws. (I'd give it a 55% score in its current state) I believe that the issues would be easily fixable if the devs are receptive to such feedback. It's quite a short game, which you will probably complete in two gaming sessions, so bear that in mind before you buy it. It's a lovely and simple puzzle-game concept, but unfortunately the character movement is abysmal and unresponsive, which is nightmare when it is essentially a platform game in which one false move means instant death. Very frustrating! When you press a key to walk or jump, the character only seems to do the move about 50% of the time, even then the character may not be centred on a square, which the character really should snap-to after a move. The final level changes the whole dynamic of the game into an unforgiving timed level, thereby spoiling the ending of what was an unhurried puzzle game. (To be fair, most puzzle games designers make this same fatal mistake, even classic games like Portal) The movement controls on the final timed level were so critically bad that I gave up in frustration and boredom and quit the game entirely*. The plot of the game made no sense to me whatsoever. Maybe there is an explanatory video after the final level, but I decided that life was too short to make the unequal effort to find out. (*NB: If you feel like commenting that I should just try harder, or "get good"; my answer is NO, I value my time too highly to waste it compensating for flawed game controls and level design.)