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Funny review:
I am bad at puzzles
Actual review:
Mechanarium is a genius game. Its puzzles are simple at their easiest, and require a good knowledge of logic systems at their worst. Meaning that, even with a brain as stupid and deformed as mine, you can triumph over Machinarium.
The whole game is excellently designed. Both visually and in its gameplay elements. The city of Machinarium is so interesting and grotesque at the same time. It's dirty, rusted, and old. Along with that, it's lively. People going about their day exist everywhere in Mechanarium. You have bums sitting on the street, people going to church, animals frolicking about, etc. There's a lot going on here. The drawn style works wonderfully with the visual themes of the game. I felt like I was looking at the inner workings of some sort of mega-structure. Watching one part of a massive whole.
The puzzles themselves are the main bread and butter of Mechanarium. For as pretty as it looks, it would be nothing without the puzzles. Every bit of progression is done through puzzle solving. All of which require logic based thinking or comparing and memorizing data for later use. In that sense, I felt the way a machine would. Going about my day while following the code that I'm programmed to run on. This really tied the whole experience together. The fun story that went along with it was the cherry on top.
This is a cute game that I highly recommend to anyone to try. Especially if you love puzzles.