The Fall

[DANGERMAN]

Heard a bit of praise for this so I thought I'd pick it up and give it a go. It's a bit unfortunate it's come out after The Swapper, because it shares the same aesthetic, use of light, and creepy desolate space station vibe.The Fall is more of a point and click with gun combat, you use your gun's light to reveal things you can interact with, then select how to interact, combine with an object or whatever.

The problem with it is that The Fall can get a bit 'try to click on everything while trying to combine everything with everything' pretty quickly, or it did for me at least, especially annoying when I'd worked out a later puzzle but wasn't allowed to solve it yet, so my progress just stopped. I've also encountered a puzzle where you have to inch your way through, solve one bit and the next bit will drop on the floor, do something with that and now there's suddenly another bit on the floor, but it doesn't really tell you it's happening.

The plot is pretty cool, you're the AI of an armoured suit, your human is damaged (non-responsive) and your primary objective is to keep your pilot alive, in any way you can. It's well done so far, and it's got better as it goes along. I suppose it's more like Flashback than anything, seems good so far

[DANGERMAN]

Played a chunk more last night and I'm still unsure what I think of it. Whenever you get to a new area you're basically stuck for ages. It reminds me of the recent Monkey Island sequels, they were basically one long string of puzzles where solving one set off a domino effect, but you'd have to walk the length of the island and talk to everyone before you could solve the first puzzle. That's what The Fall does, it has these massive troughs then you start a rush of puzzle solving

I'm quite near the end I think, and the story is decent. It's episodic which I'm not delighted about, I'm not sure I need another 2 games of this, but it might end really well

[DANGERMAN]

Finished this last night, all in all it's a good game. I had to look up how to end the game as you leave one section unfinished to go and do another set of puzzles, so I didn't know where I was supposed to be going.

When you're in the middle of a set of puzzles it's fun, and the puzzles are well designed, it's just how the puzzles start that's the problem. The story is good and ultimately why you'd probably want to play the game, but even then it's not life changing