Whirlpool

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I'm honestly not sure whether to recommend this game or not. I enjoyed cracking the codes. They require some thinking outside of the typical puzzle RPG box. However, some of them have obscure enough elements that a lot of people probably wouldn't even think of or know about. I enjoyed uncovering the story. The pieces reveal themselves at a good pace and you can start to see how they might fit together. However, the game promises an explanation at the climax but never actually delivers one. I actually couldn't believe it when the credits rolled. It was just so unexpected. For this reason alone, I chose to not recommend this game. Overall, the game has a very unpolished feel. - There are several bugs that allow you to re-access previously cleared areas. Doing so often breaks the game. - Spelling and grammar errors are prolific. - There's not a lot of life in the dialogue and text. Interacting with the world and NPCs (outside of cracking the codes) often feels pointless. - Map design is terrible. Entrances and exits aren't always obvious. Pretty much all the maps are needlessly large, repetitive and tedious to traverse (especially given that exploring is almost completely unnec…

RPG Maker strikes again! "Whirlpool" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. Notably, the "developer" couldn't work out how to use RPG Maker to make a JRPG (the only thing it can do, and it's terrible at it). Instead, we have a crappy e-book/adventure game hybrid... there's some really, really badly done puzzles, but mostly this is just incredibly cringe high school anime club dropout fan-fiction writing riddled with errors and spelling mistakes (it's not that hard to use a spell checker before burning $100 on Steam Direct to publish garbage nobody wants, is it? I guess it is!) . As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the i…

They warned me to save often. I did not.

Игра "Whirlpool" - это неожиданно глубокий и медитативный пазл. С первого взгляда простые механики затягивают в водоворот сложной геометрии и пространственного мышления. Цель - вращать плитки, чтобы создать непрерывный поток энергии, и хотя это звучит несложно, игра быстро бросает вызов вашему воображению. Что действительно выделяет "Whirlpool", так это её минималистичный дизайн и расслабляющая атмосфера. Спокойная музыка и плавные переходы создают идеальный фон для решения головоломок, позволяя полностью погрузиться в процесс. Игра не торопит, а наоборот, поощряет вдумчивый подход к каждой задаче. Сложность головоломок постепенно нарастает, обучая новым стратегиям и приёмам без излишних подсказок. Это ощущение открытия, когда внезапно находишь элегантное решение сложной задачи, приносит огромное удовлетворение. "Whirlpool" - это игра, которая тренирует ум и успокаивает нервы одновременно. Рекомендую всем, кто любит сложные, но при этом расслабляющие головоломки.

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