Myths of Rules

I legitimately wanted to like this game, and I really did my best to play as much of it as I could before I ultimately gave up. The problem starts with the tutorial. It sets up this cool mechanic that's literally never used ever again, and I kind of feel cheated on that front. What you actually get is a game where every level has wildly different mechanics that you need to learn from scratch, which could have been fine. I mean, I was willing to put up with it. But the "choose your own adventure" nature to the game meant that the majority of the endings don't feel rewarding. In fact it often felt like I was being tricked into making mistakes that wasted my time. And don't get me started on the quicktime events. Maybe that's why I'm ultimately salty. Solving the puzzles didn't make me feel accomplished; it just made me feel like I avoided punishment. And I can't abide by that.

At first I was interested in this game because it seemed to be an interesting story exploration. I played the tutorial and the first proper level. Playing the first level took a little more time than playing the tutorial and after that I was told that there are 7 endings for the first level. I managed to get 4 which are easy and then just tried getting different endings for about 20 minutes but all I did in the end is replay the level with the same outcome. It's like 'sing me a song but if you fail a note I won't tell you which one it was so keep trying'. Secrets in other games are hidden on a map where you can search for them without punishment if you fail. You walk by you can come back. In this game it feels like secrets are hidden in time which sounds cool but if you miss it you have to redo the entire sequence. The first time on the proper level I got to a garden and vaguely remembered how I started the level but I could never get back to it. UI is fine, controls are fine, concept is interesting but the content just didn't work for me.

Myth of rules is a clever little game that is somewhere halfway between a visual novel and an oldschool 8-bit adventure game. The focus is on narrative and ambiance, and the usage of diagrams for everything manages to instillate an interesting mood to the game all the while presenting a novelty aspect for the gameplay side. The different episodes all offer several endings that you have to discover through manipulations. It's not really about solving an adventure, but more about discovering fates, more like a literary exploration if you want. There are good and bad endings but there is no real advantage of ones over the others. I'd say this is a nice mix between narrativism and gameism. The manipulations require restarting the story several times, and trying different combinations, but this isn't as tedious as it sounds, in fact not tedious at all, and you can abuse the save function to create checkpoints. It's better not to try to unlock all of the conclusions unless you're really a completionist and have a lot of patience. I overflew the episodes without digging too much except for a couple. The episodes are unequal, most are okay but 'pacific square' is confusing and messy, prob…

very fun word play puzzle game.. some issues with translations for getting acheivements but It's very unique

While I'd be willing to give a bit of a free pass for a small developer when it comes to getting the very latest levels translated, you can run into untranslated text as early as the second (non-tutorial) level. I'm not sure you can meaningfully consider the game to be available in English because of that.

A fun anthology of compact little horror puzzles