I use quotation marks because this really is a game in the loosest sense of the word.
Sure, I appreciated the gorgeous artwork, but it felt like something I’d enjoy much more by simply watching it unfold rather than “playing” it myself. There are a limited number of areas that can be interacted with, which makes it very easy to stumble across solutions without needing to give the game much thought.įor me, that’s pretty much all my experience with the game was: clicking around some images for an hour or so.
#Gorogoa review trial
Nothing stumped me for more than a couple of minutes, and pretty much everything can be solved with a bit of trial and error and clicking around. Gorogoa lasts around 90 minutes give or take, depending how much trouble you have with the puzzles. It’s very clever… but it’s not particularly fun to play. For instance, the image of a doorway can be picked up and placed on top of another image to allow that doorway to lead somewhere new. To find them, puzzles need to be solved to allow characters within the images to move between frames. The basic premise of the game involves finding five “fruits”, each representing a different element. The gamification comes in the form of interacting with the images. It’s really quite ingenious how it works. Images in each of those squares can be interacted with, zoomed into and moved around to combine with others or to make completely new images. You see, Gorogoa is presented as a grid made up of four squares. But it’s how the drawings are put together that makes it really stand out.
Completely hand-drawn, Gorogoa is at very least an impressive showcase of artistic ability. There are some gameplay conventions, sure, in the form of puzzles to solve, but Gorogoa would be best described as an interactive piece of art.Īnd as an interactive piece of art, it’s quite something. In fact, it’s probably unfair to call it a “game” at all.
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