TAL: Arctic 3 Reviews

Fun little maze game.

Whoa. The innovation. The innovation! They've really changed things up with this one. Not only does the exit move around a bit - where it was once stubbornly fixed to the bottom right-hand corner - but we also have a [i]new mechanic[/i] that occasionally limits your vision to a small circle of fire or ice...actually making the series remotely [i]challenging[/i] for the first time ever! Basically, you can't always see your path to the exit clearly delineated within seconds of the screen loading up...which means [i]trial-and-error[/i] on an unprecedented scale! As a bonus, the footprints they made visible in the last game now have meaning...as you can clearly spot where you've been, eliminating the need for pointless backtracking (which would have been frankly intolerable, considering the patience that's required to conquer these games in the first place)! Some of the levels also have [i]time limits[/i]! Sometimes combined with the aforementioned visually-constraining circles! Heck, I even "died" a couple of times when I ran out of time!! So that's an easy five to ten minutes of extra game right there, for all you clock-watching "value" obsessives. There's also some of the biggest mazes we've ever witnessed, right near the end. Mazes so large that the screen has to tilt up and down a tad, again meaning that you can't just plot your path before you begin walking. The challenge! THE CHALLENGE! So okay, it's still not gonna please the "hardcore" gamers out there; but at least there's a bit more of that ever-elusive "gameplay" on offer here. Guess I'll have to up the verdict slightly from the first two TAL: Arctic games to reflect this. I'd probably still favour TAL: Jungle on the whole, though (but good to see the franchise getting better with every game). Consider me a "fan", if only just, and mostly in a morbidly curious kinda way... Verdict: 6/10. (PS If you enjoyed this review, feel free to check out my two Curator pages: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9284586-ReviewsJustfortheHELLofit/ http://store.steampowered.com/curator/10868048-Truly-Horrible-Horror-Games/?appid=398210 Cheers!)

Only recommend if you get it on sale or part of a bundle. They made a few improvements on this one compared to Tal: Artic 1 & 2. There are still no enemies and the mazes are still very easy. They did at least add in some obstacles to make the game a little more interesting - some levels are in the dark (small circle of light around you), some levels have a timer, and some levels are both in the dark and with a timer.

[h1]The Yeti Mazerunner in darkness & under time pressure[/h1] TAL:Arctic is a cheap buildt series of maze games in which a Yeti like character tries to find the exit in 60 different levels.If you compare it to the aMaze Series these labrinths are a no-brainer. Sometimes you have to play dark levels and even combined with a very mean timer. It happened to me that I really passed in the last second the mazes. Lots of strees but not really an improvement.