![]() Six hours is definitely enough, but at the same time, it seems a shame to have this hanging over you when there are so many hidden secrets to uncover, so many collectable extras to seek out. It always seems such a solid idea to establish limits like these, right up until you’ve been playing a game for five hours and fifty-five minutes, and realise you’re about to lose everything. You can look at your pocket watch at any point to see how long remains, and crucially, use this to get hints at the cost of fifteen minutes. You can set that opening timer to six or three hours, depending how rushed you want to feel, and with an update since launch, have no timer at all. The ‘escape by midnight’ opener affords the game it’s perhaps ill-advised gimmick: you can choose to play with a time limit, such that a clock ever ticks down, with the approaching 12am a foreboding game over. And sure, floppy clocks are inevitable, but they here they aren’t draped over branches and rocks. There are nods and tributes to various artists throughout, including a just superb reimagining of a Magritte work – to reference The Son Of Man without including the apple is demonstrative of the intelligence throughout the design. Each contains a bundle of switch-based puzzles, opening and closing gates and doorways, and occasionally discovering little one-off puzzle challenges.įor once, the “painting” conceit isn’t just an excuse for pretty graphics – Summertime Madness (which is a horrible name for a game like this) properly embraces the theme. ![]() As you explore, things begin to materialise around you, including an enormous boat, a lighthouse, and so on. ![]() You start off on some very lovely islands in the water, pootling about to find your first goal. Although given how pretty and interesting it is in there, that doesn’t seem so bad. However, if he’s not found a way out by midnight, he will be trapped in his canvas forever. The tale to excuse this gorgeous wandering through a painterly world has a Prague-based artist, exhausted and living in the ruins of 1945, make Faustian pact that allows him to be transported to the world within his colourful, optimistic paintings.
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