GOROGOA FIRST TRY SERIES

There’s something great about games that just want to be simple joyous fun times and focus entirely on that, and there aren’t as many titles that do that as I wish there were. Yet, that’s exactly what I love about it.

I cannot stress enough how extremely simple it is, being more of a virtual toy, than a game as how we tend to perceive them. It’s somewhat reminiscent of titles like Katamari Damacy or the American McGee’s Grimm in that it’s mostly about going from smaller to bigger coverage with your hole and solving relatively easy puzzles which might prevent you from growing the size of the hole. But otherwise, it’s a rather short game that is absolutely beautiful, has a really good soundtrack and is a joy to experience.ĭonut County is an extremely simplistic, yet very charming and fun title about using a magic hole in the ground to “eat” everything. There are a few sections that could’ve had a little bit more subtle help, something the game is doing really well most of the time, as in few parts I understood what I could do, but didn’t understand what the end goal should be. There are some hitches along the way occasionally, like the fact that sometimes one image can create action in another image and for whatever reason the check for if both images are ready for this sometimes happens very early, leading to unnecessary wait for another cycle of the animation, while in some parts it works very naturally.

It’s actually one of those cases, where watching the trailer is a must to understand just how awesome it all looks in motion. All while being a puzzle game where the main mechanic is about altering perception of objects on a 2×2 grid by looking at them differently or overlaying one of the images with part of the other, forming a new one. Apparently, it was originally envisioned as an interactive novel and in many ways, it still is, telling a simple, but surprisingly effective symbolic and philosophical tale of a spiritual journey through life and time. Gorogoa might be one of the most curious puzzle games I’ve played. But that’s what’s cool about two very different games, Gorogoa and Donut County, that will take you less than 2 hours to complete on the first try, yet still feel like a complete and fun experience.

GOROGOA FIRST TRY SERIES

Even The Room series started as feeling like a really cool first part of something bigger and not as a complete package, even if the game was fun. It’s not a common thing to happen, I’d say, as most titles tend to either aim at a longer gameplay time, or are very short experiments, that don’t feel like a complete experience. There’s something special about the little short games that manage to cram a lot of awesome into just an hour or two.

Gorogoa first try