![]() ![]() Where Maquette does come alive is in the moments when the last thing on your mind is love, and instead you’re lugging a pink crystal through a corresponding force field, the better to poke a key through a hole in the wall, to be collected, in miniaturised form, and slotted into the lock of a mechanical door. What’s more, the most perplexing mystery-more than the majority of the puzzles-is why Bryce Dallas Howard and Seth Gabel, who voice the two leads, and who happen to be partners in real life, should fail to summon a genuine spark. The first declaration of love is more of a slow drip: “I don’t want you to say something you are not ready to say.” “But I do want to say it.” And anyone who sums up their time with another soul by saying, “Our first year together was epic,” as Michael does, is deserving of nothing but our ire. Their initial encounter feels forced and clumsy-a meet-brute, as it were-as the pair grind through a cloying script (the story was written by director Hanford Lemoore). But the problem with Michael and Kenzie is that I spent most of the time praying for the crumble. To be fair, a crumbling romance isn’t exactly an ill-fitting frame for this soggy clash mechanics and themes have a nasty habit of undermining each other, like an embittered couple at a dinner party. Whatever the case, the narrative soaks awkwardly into play, like coffee into a sketchbook. Or the way our carefully enamelled inner lives can seem like the whole world. Fair enough, but why all the puzzles? The game brims with perspective-based conundrums that have you altering the size of objects-a key, for example-dropping them into a model-village version of reality and ducking as they come clanging down outside, larger than before. Maybe it’s a metaphor for those fights where something small gets blown out of proportion. They meet in a coffee shop, she spills coffee, narrowly missing his sketchbook, they laugh they date, move in together, and go painting in the park they drink wine and drift apart, frictions deepen into fractures, they break up. Maquette tells the story of two lovers, Michael and Kenzie, but I’m not sure why. "Maquette review - ingenious but unfocused recursive puzzling". "Test Maquette : Un jeu d'énigmes plein de charme, offert en mars sur PS5 via le PS Plus". ^ "Maquette Review – Put On Your Shrinking Cap".^ a b "Maquette for PlayStation 5 Reviews".^ "Maquette coming to Xbox Series, Xbox One, and Switch this winter".^ "Pretty perspective-based puzzler Maquette is out now". ![]() "Maquette is the new game from the Annapurna label, and it's basically a fever dream".
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |