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This is a game about a nightmare. If it's hard to beat or hard to understand, deal with it. It's not meant to be logical.
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u know that little black furry thing u keepseeing and dissapears when u look at it? well yea he gave me nightmares for weeks sometimes i think i see him in real life!
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Great style but this game suffers from what a lot of point and click games suffer from and that is the thinking is to far out of the box. When you're expected to figure out where things are, what they do, and how they work together there needs to be a heavy emphasis on logic. Early on, you get a screwdriver, this implies unscrewing something, yet you combine it with cloth to make a torch, something NO ONE would do logically. Whats aggrivating is that this is a simple fix. Make it a stick instead of a screwdriver. Also, I like the line drawing style but the simplicity if offers means one item looks just like another piece of background art, maybe subtle color differences, or even flickering colors to make things that are pick-up-able stand out.
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Quinn's Review: Daymare Town has a really interesting black-and-white line-drawing style which I've not seen in a point-and-click before. It makes the game very immersive and visually very gripping, especially when characters stick their heads around corners and catch you by surprise. Unfortunately the style of drawing makes some items all but impossible to find without a large helping of luck. Add to that the puzzles which often require you to combine items in nonsensical ways and uses you could never figure out logically (the dwarves in the hole stand out for me) and you have a game which invites you in but then doesn't deliver all it promises. This is still worth a look, but you'll almost certainly need a walkthrough, and that sucks some of the fun out of it. Daymare Town does look fantastic, though.
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It wasn't too tedious until after about six items in. But I'm a Monkey Island child and love point and click games. I think the black and white style is really nice and wouldn't recommend color, there are more subtle ways to emphasize a point.
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requires specific places to be looking at. Like color hints to have a better chance of finding items them wasting a long time .
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It's comforting to know that, no matter how abstract and tedious a game is - relying on hovering your mouse on areas of the screen that give no indication you should be hovering on them, or just trying any dumb combination of items on every object that hasn't been used yet - somebody will always be there to smugly defend it as "a game that requires an IQ."
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I love this game, but I can never find the last chinese puzzle block, the one that just looks like a plain square. Anyone know where it is?
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Have to agree with "DarkLordKhaos" here. This game isn't "challenging" so much as it is one of the many (horrible) "how many pixels can you comb over" games. Who the heck found the "hook" without combing pixels?!
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There is a huge difference between challenging difficult and annoyingly difficult. Having to comb over every pixel in the game falls under the annoying catagory.
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Too much pixelhunting (the key behind the rock by the well?!?), you're given no purpose. I love the Submachine games and I thought this would be good, but it isn't.
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I admit I had to use the walkthrough to find all the birds. Very good game, but definitely the most difficult one, in my opinion a bit overdone the way the sleeping birds are hidden.
4/5