Faraday Protocol

“The game introduces new mechanics without explaining them, and you are kind of just left to your own devices to figure them out.”

“Some puzzles I solved by accident, one or two were frustrating because of an unexplained mechanic I didn't stumble into after a half-hour of poking at things.”

“The game could benefit from more variety of mechanics.”

“Very often the puzzle's 'difficulty' lies in actually finding the interactible element that lets you progress, and some interactible elements are quite small and/or have quite mild differences between active/inactive states, which makes you have to double-check them as you can't trust the visuals.”

“-striking visuals... that are striking for the first few minutes you've seen them.”

“There are a few that stand out, such as a certain tower or the outside of the first ziqqurat, but beyond that not much aesthetic appeal until much, much later on.”

“Starting off with some puzzles, while most are alright, some throw moments of 'where the balls do I find the button!' They are also quite long and tedious, requiring a lot of going back and forth. Compared to, let's say, the most popular, Portal, I can solve 4-6 chambers during the time it takes to solve one in this game (again, not all puzzles are like this, but some).”

“It's like Portal if Portal wasn't interesting, had no story, had simple yet tedious puzzles, and was completely boring and lifeless.”

“Grindy achievement(s): no.”

“Energy transfer being buggy is bad enough, especially with the weirdly hard timed puzzle (5 seconds? really?).”

“TLDR: buggy and often poorly designed, with most puzzles being either quite easy, or stupidly hard and glitchy.”

“The red fireball energy glitches out in a never-ending loop until intervened!”

“Maybe it’s the different atmosphere and gravity leanings, but it’s really bad regardless.”

“On the bright side, the game does a decent job in puzzles (for me most of them sat right in the middle, not too easy or too hard, except towards the ending, the boss puzzles were way too easy), dialogues are fully voice acted, atmosphere is decently built, movement is fluid enough; that’s it really, just a decent FPS puzzler, give it a try after you finish better ones, like Portal, Talos Principle, Entropy Center, Turing Test, Lightmatter.”

“Somewhat empty rooms, can become a bit monotonous, not too much replay value.”