CALENDULA Bewertungen

Faszinierend!

WTF-Spiel Man muss Spaß am Experimentieren und Suchen mitbringen. Ist zum Glück nicht sehr lange. Lösung: https://steamcommunity.com/app/427810 Pony Island ist imho viel besser. Für Leute die schon alles gespielt haben.

Calendula jumps on the bandwagon of games like Pony Island. It tries to persuade you of playing a "possessed" game that actually plays with you. This concept worked fine in Pony Island, but the way this concept is used in Calendula it is way to unimaginative to enthrall me. What we have here is an incoherent series of easy lowbrow-puzzles like you know 'em from many smartphone-games like "100 Doors". At the beginning of every puzzle you get a hint that points out what you have to do. You will solve most of the puzzles in less than 30 seconds - some others aren't challenging but just annoying, because you have to **** up your mouse controls to solve 'em (inverted controls etc...), or you have to make graphical changes (brightness / saturation (which are regulated ingame)) that are nothing more than a pain in your eyes. At the end of each puzzle (usually the goal is to acquire a password for a "saved game"), you obtain a small glimpse of first-person-gameplay (which means that you move through a short hallway on tracks without any freedom of movement ... so prepare for just holding "W" in the first person sequences) until you are thrown back into CALENDULAS main menue to solve the next puzzle. That's not really thrilling. CALENDULA tries to be creepy and psychedelic, but in fact it is a simple (and very short!) batch of uncreative puzzles without any kind of considerable atmoshphere, climax, storyline or interesting scenarios. It could have been much more, but the actual game isn't worth the price.