11/11/2023 0 Comments Manifold garden review gamesradarNo, Manifold Garden has plenty of ideas that it introduces slowly and simply, before ramping up the complexity and the difficulty. Manifold Garden has shown its hand, and I’m all in on this unique brand of puzzling.īut it’s not all momentum and terminal velocity – the kind you might get by messing about with the Portal gun. I’m shocked, amazed and a little bit proud of myself. And that’s when I realise… I’m not supposed to jump the gap, I’m supposed to drop, and then edge closer and then approach it again from above as I loop through infinite times. With equal parts curiosity and disregard for life, I plunge off the edge, to realise I’m now in never-ending freefall, with the surroundings repeating themselves every so often like some old-school cartoon background chase scene. I can see a switch across a gap, but with no obvious way to get to it. I’ll admit to being a bit flummoxed initially, looking this way and that for obvious progression. You progress through a few more puzzles before the game literally opens up to a sprawling never-ending vista of repeating areas with a precarious drop in front of you. It also nods to a gravitational element as well, which will become very important before long. It’s intuitive and embeds the idea that each 90-degree rotation is marked by a different colour. It then asks you to push a series of coloured buttons to open doors before introducing coloured blocks that must rest on pads of the same colour. It instructs you how to move around, before introducing you to its key mechanic of being able to rotate the entire world around 90 degrees. Manifold Garden starts off incredibly simply. Out on console (shadow dropped, no less), Manifold Garden will once again showcase its flair, and it’s not to be missed. It messes with your head, but in the best possible way and it’s easy to see why this title garnered so many fans when it originally launched on PC and iOS. Yes, it’s a puzzle title, but there’s lots to like throughout its five hours run time. What I’d just experienced was one of the most unique experiences I’d played in a long time, with its own style and ideas. And when the credits rolled on Manifold Garden I couldn’t help but beam. You know a game has done something special when you’re left smiling after it’s all over.
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