Once I’d finished swearing, the rest of the level clicked into place. On one of the game’s later levels, there was a 25 minute period where I was certain I’d solved a particular part of a puzzle when it transpired I didn’t walk through a doorway in the correct way. They then work themselves up to you having to carry out a complicated set of actions. Again, they start relatively simply such as finding a pad on the floor.
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You’ll also need to work out how to trigger the pillars. They hold clues, such as a combination to a door or a random pattern that you’ll need to memorise. The environments you traverse also form part of the problem solving. The drawback with these, is that the types of puzzles are limited and can be repetitive despite the rising difficulty. They start off simple, the first one has you completing a line of coloured squares, but they soon progress to path finding and repeating multiple sequences.
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Puzzles are presented in an electronic grid full of squares. This premise might sound simple but as the game progresses, the problems get harder and activating pillars becomes more elaborate. These pillars then have different types of problems attached to them which need solving in order to progress. Set in a first person view, you have to explore the environments to find triggers to activate pillars. What sets this apart from other puzzle games is that it is styled after the escape room format. It’s great when the title of the video game explains what you have to do. – Platinum trophy pings half way through the gameĪs the name suggests The Pillar: Puzzle Escape is a puzzler that puts you in a strange world in which you have to escape.
+ Pleasant environments & ambient music that’s not intrusive
Developer, Paper Bunker have tried to replicate this feeling with The Pillar: Puzzle Escape albeit minus the zombie apocalypse. Over the last year, no matter how much you pay your spouse to lock you in the bathroom, there’s nothing like the feeling of achievement of breaking out of a room themed around the zombie apocalypse. You know the ones you pay a stranger to be locked in a room for an hour and you have to solve obscure puzzles in order to get out. One of my favourite pastimes was visiting escape rooms. Remember the days of leaving the house? I do. 13 January, 2021 - 9:14 am by Joe Whitfield
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