By: Misfits
Attic
Where: PC (Steam), Playstation Vita
Category: Action/Puzzle
Category: Action/Puzzle
“Destroying Tomorrow,
Today!”
So, it’s a
game about a virus, one named TOM apparently. Background check? Sure.So, Mr. Eccentric Scientist here goes about creating a city of the future for this company called Mega-Tech. Robot dogs, sidewalks that take you wherever you want, special tech suits that change your appearance….that kind of thing. Eventually, his eccentric side gets the best of him, and he ends up creating Globotron, a massive robot that “terminates” anyone who doesn’t use his inventions. Needless to say, he gets fired. “‘How is that even profitable’ they said”.
So, as any “normal”
Eccentric Scientist, he decides to
take revenge on Mega-Tech. This is where you come in. You are TOM, a green
funny looking virus created for the sole purpose of giving those idiots at
Mega-Tech a lesson.
Contagious Fun
So, how do
we go about ruining everything? Easy. Get TOM inside those gadgets and have him
turn those circuits into a mess. All you need to do is to spread the infection
(green) to the whole circuit and you’re done! That easy? No.
Ok, so the
primary objective is to spread the infection to the entire circuit. To do this
you have to rotate each piece in a way so that the infection reaches
everywhere. The initial circuits are simple, but as you progress, things get
difficult. Circuits keep getting bigger and more complex, enemies are added,
your time limit (aka Energy) gets lower….in short, a whole bunch of stuff to
make your life harder. Still, all these game mechanics are introduced in
intervals over the campaign, giving you time to get used to each one of them.
Each gadget
is composed of various levels, and from some point up you will start getting
Skips, which you can use to (obviously) skip levels. The level will be
considered solved, and once you really DO solve it, you’ll get your skip back!
Endless TOMfoolery
There is
also a multiplayer campaign with even more complicated puzzles and an
additional game element, this time a barrier, preventing players to cross over
to the other player’s half of the puzzle. Some of these require two pieces to
be rotated at the same time to succeed, so it takes a bit of practice. Additionally,
there is a versus mode where you compete with up to 3 friends (the multiplayer
campaign also supports up to 4 players) in a custom sized circuit where each player
attempts to capture more squares than anyone else. Of course, you can kill
other players and get their squares, turning it into a random pool of death and
robotic laughs. There’s also a tons of achievements, some of which pretty hard
and global score leaderboards (via Steam). It’s such a shame that there’s no
online multiplayer (yes, it’s local, so either you have a couple controllers or
I surely hope your keyboard can have 10 keys pressed at the same time).
So, in
conclusion, if you like a good interactive kind of puzzle and want a good brain
teaser, this might just be what you’re looking for. Difficulty gets pretty
crazy further down the road. Even more so if you grab a couple of friends.
The game
can be found here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/207650/
