#THE PILLAR PUZZLE ESCAPE CRACK#

At no point did I get lost or bored with any part of this game, which is testament to the structural design of the sandbox giving you focussed freedom to roam about without distraction. The environments set the scene, and give you ample space to work in whilst keeping you focused on the objectives ahead of you at all times. The game spans seven main stages with nods to more enigmatic places, most notably letting you run around a Stone Henge and Castle fortresses, with a chilled art-style reminiscent of RIME or a simplified Wind Waker. It's basic but effective.

The reason these mechanics exist is that they're visceral and engaging, but I feel that TPPE is missing any complex dimensionality and had there been a mechanic for jumping perhaps the singular plane of exploration could have been expanded to incorporate more intricate vertical riddles. From moving around cubes Portal-style to jumping through portals Portal-style, there is a definite romanticism shared for the pioneering games that brought this very genre into being. Jumping in, I immediately felt that perhaps this game could have benefitted from a PSVR mode to really bump up the immersion. There are plentiful puzzles per level with the latter stages offering multiple pillars and other side puzzles such as switch sequences and four-digit tumble locks, across multiple environments and with gradually increasing complexity.Ĭontrolling yourself in-game uses rudimentary FPS walking controls. These 'slide' puzzles range from simply joining two colours together across a path while ensuring the entire grid is coloured in, colouring in an entire grid in one continuous line, to remembering and duplicating Nokia-style snake-like patterns across the grids to complete the Simon-like memory game. The main puzzle types are fairly limited in all honesty, with just four main variants of slide puzzles forming the main components of this game, but with increasing complexity and scale making each proceeding challenge slightly more involved than the last as you progress.

#THE PILLAR PUZZLE ESCAPE CRACK#

Once you have bossed each of the four puzzles, the pillar lets off an almighty crack of thunder and something else in the environment is unveiled as your next focal point, and the pillar then grows upwards and reveals yet another tetralogy of problems. The Pillar, in this instance, is an obelisk-like purple crystal that protrudes the soil and on each of its four sides is effectively a screen with a visual conundrum to negotiate. of this title, with each of the seven main levels heavily involving them throughout. You're trapped in a lucid dreamlike world of perplexing monoliths and you need to observe, react and overcome this world in order to escape the mythical maze!Īs the name implies, pillars are the core. The Pillar: Puzzle Escape does exactly this and transports you into a mildly cel-shaded world for you to unravel a mystery. The reality it grounds you in makes it all the more playable and, if it's a believable world, it focuses you down into the important elements without distraction. The combination of a first-person perspective and puzzle elements is a match made in heaven.

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