WATCH / 透视
Micractive · 2020 · Puzzle Platformer, Platformer, Puzzle, Casual, Indie
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 39
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About WATCH / 透视
This is a platform puzzle game related to our "Perspective" vision.
There are a lot of games about "Vision", such as "Monument Valley", "Fez", or "Superliminal". But I believe that even compared with these famous games, this game "Watch" is still "different".
You might say, it looks like "Fez". Yes, "Fez" is an important source of inspiration for this game, which uses the same "camera rotation mechanism".
But what's significantly different from "Fez" is that it adds "Perspective".
"Perspective" is the soul of this game, and it is also the soul of our eyes. With it, our eyes have the feeling of "Depth". For example, the building in the distance is as high as the tea cup nearby, one hand nearby looks large enough to hold a Boeing 747, and with one jump, we can cross the mountain top in the distance, and so on.
"Perspective" is usual but magical. It makes our life more colorful.
In this game, you will use "Perspective" to overcome various difficulties, such as, jump over a huge pit, or jump up to the top of a building.
You also need to avoid seemingly inescapable obstacles, or avoid lasers that can really kill you at the touch, or step on massive and dangerous robots, and let light travel from here to there ( sometimes you are the light yourself ).
In this game, you will use various tools, which can better assist you to use the " Perspective" to overcome difficulties, such as, "X" that can move the camera horizontally.
There are two other tools I didn't say, and how to use them depends on your intelligence.
In addition to the these tools, you will also need to use some props, such as a wooden box or something like it, you have to push them or take them to the right place.
You will encounter more strange boxes, green buckets that can be picked up and hold water, and fans that can let you fly into the sky. Remember the robot mentioned earlier? It's also a good combination to have it with the box. And, maybe you want try this strange "Hotair-Balloon".
Do you want to fill a bucket with just one drop of water? Or let the sun light a cigarette? All these requires you to find out in the game.
What if perspective and mirror are combined? Say, A mirror from the "Atlantis".
Of course, mirrors don't have to be flat, they can bring more interesting things, such as, conical mirror.
and cylindrical or pyramidal mirrors, which we call "Anamorphsis-Art".
When you solve all these puzzles, you will find that "Perspective" is not only in our real life, but also in our fantastic ideas.
Some puzzles are so hard that you may not be able to solve them at first. But please don't underestimate yourself. You can pass all of the tests and finally come to the house at the beginning of the game to understand the whole story.
The story of the game itself is also a "puzzle", at first it will be confusing, but if you are not in such a hurry, please don't skip it easily.
I wanted to put more GIF animations, but if I put too many, maybe the store page can't be opened, and you can't see this description. So, if you want to know more, please take a look at the 6 videos above.
I hope you enjoy the game. Thank you.
(PS: Please don't ignore the dialogues in the game. Sometimes, it may be the key to solve the puzzle.)
There are a lot of games about "Vision", such as "Monument Valley", "Fez", or "Superliminal". But I believe that even compared with these famous games, this game "Watch" is still "different".
You might say, it looks like "Fez". Yes, "Fez" is an important source of inspiration for this game, which uses the same "camera rotation mechanism".
But what's significantly different from "Fez" is that it adds "Perspective".
"Perspective" is the soul of this game, and it is also the soul of our eyes. With it, our eyes have the feeling of "Depth". For example, the building in the distance is as high as the tea cup nearby, one hand nearby looks large enough to hold a Boeing 747, and with one jump, we can cross the mountain top in the distance, and so on.
"Perspective" is usual but magical. It makes our life more colorful.
In this game, you will use "Perspective" to overcome various difficulties, such as, jump over a huge pit, or jump up to the top of a building.
You also need to avoid seemingly inescapable obstacles, or avoid lasers that can really kill you at the touch, or step on massive and dangerous robots, and let light travel from here to there ( sometimes you are the light yourself ).
In this game, you will use various tools, which can better assist you to use the " Perspective" to overcome difficulties, such as, "X" that can move the camera horizontally.
There are two other tools I didn't say, and how to use them depends on your intelligence.
In addition to the these tools, you will also need to use some props, such as a wooden box or something like it, you have to push them or take them to the right place.
You will encounter more strange boxes, green buckets that can be picked up and hold water, and fans that can let you fly into the sky. Remember the robot mentioned earlier? It's also a good combination to have it with the box. And, maybe you want try this strange "Hotair-Balloon".
Do you want to fill a bucket with just one drop of water? Or let the sun light a cigarette? All these requires you to find out in the game.
What if perspective and mirror are combined? Say, A mirror from the "Atlantis".
Of course, mirrors don't have to be flat, they can bring more interesting things, such as, conical mirror.
and cylindrical or pyramidal mirrors, which we call "Anamorphsis-Art".
When you solve all these puzzles, you will find that "Perspective" is not only in our real life, but also in our fantastic ideas.
Some puzzles are so hard that you may not be able to solve them at first. But please don't underestimate yourself. You can pass all of the tests and finally come to the house at the beginning of the game to understand the whole story.
The story of the game itself is also a "puzzle", at first it will be confusing, but if you are not in such a hurry, please don't skip it easily.
I wanted to put more GIF animations, but if I put too many, maybe the store page can't be opened, and you can't see this description. So, if you want to know more, please take a look at the 6 videos above.
I hope you enjoy the game. Thank you.
(PS: Please don't ignore the dialogues in the game. Sometimes, it may be the key to solve the puzzle.)
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
For gameplay check out the link to the youtube video. https://youtu.be/wtSeVwYb-x8 Overall, I believe this game is worth the $2 price tag. Personally I find the artwork to be beautiful and pairs wonderfully with the music. Personally I am not a huge fan of puzzle games but decided to give this one a go based on the trailer. I put a little over an hour in to the game and enjoyed it a fair bit. Pros: Artwork Music Level Design ( I think, too early to tell for sure) Cons: Bugs (freezing and having to restart the level) A LOT of dialogue to start, not sure if it's consistent with the rest of the game No real "challenge" exists beyond completing the level (except the sprites) Suggestions: Adding checkpoints instead of resetting exactly where you fall off the level. There's no challenge beyond the mental aspect of "figuring out" the level. Make falling off a punishment for terrible puzzle gamers like myself.5 found this helpful
Not a new concept, rotating 3D scenes to align 2D platforms in order to progress, but this is the only bad implementation I've played so far. The main issue is the inconsistency, the fact that I can't ascertain what I can jump onto and what I can't; what will constitute a solid floor and what won't. Contributors are the weak level design, the cheap visuals, and the glitches. Hard to evaluate the extent of the latter, but I've had screens fully made of invisible objects with segments of horizontal black lines here and there. I've been stuck inside zones that weren't how they were supposed to be, as confirmed when coming back from an earlier checkpoint and through cutscenes that hadn't played the first time around. Short story shorter, the game seems quite buggy. Just like the story's translation into Chinglish.2 found this helpful
I was really, really looking forward to this. Love the concept... but there's just so much wrong with this one. Right from the beginning it just feels janky. Everything about it. I wouldn't even recommend this if it was on sale. Huge disappointment.
Interesting idea in platform perspective game play. Worth the $$. The game is relaxing and the design is nicely done. Generally fairly easy with some tricky obstacles. Easy to burn a some time and pick up a bit later. Looking forward to the finished game.
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