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Cradle #1032620
09/16/15 05:47 PM
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I have been trying to like this game for a month now. It shouldn't be that difficult. The oddly colored and simply weird locale and its strange characters are exactly what I want in a game. The uniqueness of the few characters is wonderful. I think I will even like the plot if I ever complete the game and find out what it means. However, it's a technical disaster. How sad and disappointing to be unable to accomplish something, even when I know what I need to do, because the controls are poorly designed and overly sensitive. Has anyone else found problems with Cradle? Am I perhaps simply whining due to my own ineptitude? cry

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Re: Cradle [Re: The Haze] #1032622
09/16/15 05:52 PM
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If this is the game, I don't think it's just your own ineptitude.

A quote from the linked review:

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Imagine a McDonalds PlayPlace designed by B.F. Skinner. Each room contains several levels of multicolored cubes, all of which can be picked up, thrown around, or busted through a la Minecraft. Your goal is to toss a certain kind of cube into an uprising stream at the center of the room, 30 times. Easy enough, in theory. But you are pursued relentlessly by a demonic jack-o-lantern that blows up several cubes at a time or traps you in a concrete cube-box, and it’s all too easy to fall through a hole in the cube-platform and into the water below, which sets you back 3 points every time. The controls and physics are sluggish and imprecise; you never know how far a jump will take you or whether a tossed cube will make it home. It feels like playing basketball inside Jello.


Re: Cradle [Re: The Haze] #1032625
09/16/15 06:17 PM
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That's the game. in fact, I read the review here on "Boomers" and stupidly hoped it was wrong. It wasn't. Actually, the review points out an interesting feature of the mini-games which makes them easy to handle...and the game is still a mess.


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