Yerba Buena

The demo is amazing. the full game however runs like doodoo. missing dialogue, broken puzzles and collectibles that don't trigger anything. I'm constantly wondering if I haven't found a solution or if i need to restart the game again and that's not a great feeling playing a puzzle game. had really high hopes. awesome concept though, hoping they fix the game.

It gets more painful the further you get. I honestly really want to recommend this game. It starts out REALLY WELL. The mechanics are cool, and the concept is great. But the further I got, the less polished the levels got - e.g. with the fairground level, you have rollercoasters appearing out of nowhere. This is fine, until you get to e.g. the pinball machine, where the ball acts differently upon running the same setup multiple times. The ball can also not fall through the hole properly, and get stuck inside the machine, and so not respawn. These sorts of problems start to rack up the futher you get. Unfortunately, if that was the extent of the issues, that would be fine. Some of the levels (e.g. tower take #2) the game has you solving puzzles with a strict time-limit. If you fail, it kills you. And this is in a level where you're searching for what objects you have to use to solve the problem. Think Portal, but Glados drops the floor out from under you if you haven't solved the test in 30s. It's a puzzle game. You're supposed to have a bit of time to think about what you need to do, and find the tools for you to do it. Instead, you get stuck in a death-loop getting more…

This game is awful, the promise sounds good, but the story is awful, most puzzle are just plain easy, the voice acting moves between decent to who let this person have a mic And it dragsss, you feel like the tower would end it, but nooo you need the god awful sticky power which makes the puzzles just even more boring and the "tutorial" on that is sooo longgg with awful puzzles The pinball part completely broke me Don't get me wrong, there are some good puzzles, but they are far and between, the prison part is the strongest, but even with it a lot of it is just boring busy work, in the end of the tower for some reason for example there are lasers that makes you return to the checkpoints once in a while, but you get checkpojt everysecond and somtimes it just misses so it makes no sense, everything that

i wish there was a MIXED review type at times i had a lot of fun with this game, but there are so many flaws that it definitely deserves the mixed overall rating it currently has Pros first: - this game screams with passion, its clear that lot of the people working on this cared - clever spin on the "this game knows its a game" trope (will not elaborate, go play the demo, there is more ideas about that premise in the full game) - a lot of art in this game has very painting-like style to it and i generally liked the look of most areas - the main mechanic of the game (the oscillator) feels somewhat fresh and unique - music often slaps and slaps hard (in an ambient way) yummy tasty - the [spoiler] corporate office [/spoiler] area had a lot of genuinely funny gmod-like slapstick things to wreck - i really enjoyed one specific scene where [spoiler] there were hand shadows puppets telling a story [/spoiler] and now the Cons: - sometimes the level design is so badly designed that you dont even notice things you can interact with to be there, even with a mechanic that highlights such objects (they are hidden behind a corner or they appear only at specific moments) - the game put me few…

In its best moments, Yerba Buena can be a lot of fun. You can really tell there was a lot of passion in this project. unfortunately though, the lack of polish can be extremely distracting. My biggest gripe is that the puzzle elements often blend into the environment. The scanning button does a decent job of making up for this, but I really hate spamming it just to get a grip of what i'm looking at. Also the more open ended puzzles were some of the least fun that this game had to offer. Despite all this, I wanted to leave a positive review because I think this game deservers more attention then its getting. Maybe wait for a sale though.

Good