Supraland: Video Game Overview

You can imagine that some puzzle game like Portal, The Witness or The Talos Principle disguised as a colorful RPG in the spirit The Legend of Zelda? But the authors Supraland not only presented, but also created such an unusual adventure.

Real sandbox

IN Supraland We act as a sort of toy soldier. The fact is that all the huge territory is actually nine square meters of a children’s playground, where we put some kind of guy with a violent fantasy. The environment is the appropriate – toy houses and waterfalls, huge erasers as stairs and pencils instead of pillars. And the boy, the one, actually, the king, demiurg and the god of this game sandbox, does something periodically, hangs, looks at us, noise. And if you look at the sky, you can see his huge curious face. Looks and stylish and unusual and funny.

So, it turns out that the red and blue men live in this children’s world, who have their own cities and territories. Naturally, they are somehow entitled. And when it turns out that blue for some reason spoil the red water pipe, it is their son, that is us, the king sends to negotiations with the king of blue.

Everything is sold … or is

We grab our faithful wooden sword and run to the territory of the blue. Then you stop, inspect and see that on the roof, the gold coins are shrouded in the roof. And here the windows are boarded so that they are clearly broken. We break, jump, and there is a secret zone, a chest with gold and one big coin, on which it is written: “+5 to the damn sword”.

This is useful because at once the city gates at the hero are attacked by some skeletons. But along the road leading to the city of blue, not the dead stand, and other red men who literally lure us, as at the fair: “Hey, if you can jump here, you will find treasure!”. “Go here, a gold barrel is hidden behind the doors, try to get!”And the Golden Barrel is very good, because the enon number of such barrels brought by the merchant turn into a powerful improvement for our hero.Obstacles here can be the most unexpected.
In the same place, the merchant, for coins you need to buy other upgrades – an increase in speed, general health or the effectiveness of its regeneration, a bonus for a damage, double and triple jump. Even the opportunity to see the display of the health level of enemies or get a chance to collect LUT from their carcasses you need to buy from merchants or find in the chests.

Who is looking for, he will find

In general, quickly run by signs to our blue goal is not just not happening – you really don’t want to do it immediately, here and now. And I want to completely fully (as far as it is at the moment and with these abilities it is possible) to explore the territory, herald all the corners of the courses, collect all the coins, find all the secrets and chests with upgrades.

If something failed to find immediately, then it will be possible to return to the already passing locations. And sometimes a very fun way – in some places there are springboard, which literally torpest us, like a circuit of cannons. And we fly back with joyful screams back, looking at the top of the neighborhood and even noticing that there is there, on top of, hidden by some kind of key.

As you already guessed, in the process of research, we will mostly have to still not fight, but to overcome obstacles and decide how to get to the woven golden / chest / lever / buttons operating the door, and so on.Even the maximum size of the wallet must be pumped.

Tsar guns

At first, everything looks quite easily and understandable, and the main tool when solving such tasks become arms and legs. To many seats will get to get, only if you run quickly, as well as use a double and triple jump. That is, you first need to accumulate on these upgrades and learn how to jump so much, and then the hands are also correctly used during jumping, having labby and changing direction right in the air.

In addition, the great help becomes the ability to create a large purple cube in the right place. The theory and practice of its application cost without special surprises: as a rule, we materialize the cube on the pressure platforms or right under your feet to use as a stand for jumping upstairs. You can also put such an object as an obstacle on the way of the leaving platform to delay it, as a counterweight, raising a large board on the principle of swing. Or, for example, with it, it is closed with a hole in the pipe, which rolling the next gold barrel.

But then everything becomes much more interesting and more difficult. The gun appears, which is at the same time on the enemies of the palette, and by the buttons activating them. Gradually its functions expand. She begins to shoot a laser and some balls, to carry, like magnetized, heavy cores for them so that they rolled and stood on the right platform.

And then another cannon appears, which turns almost in a hook-cat – we can fasten with a laser beam from a gun to surfaces and pull up or swing on the beam. Or even spend such a laser line between the roofs and go through it like a rope. And it also opens the ability to take off and soar, being near metallic surfaces.Red berries with cacti slightly heal wounds.

Think and shoot!

In general, mysteries, obstacles and tools for their overcoming mass. At the same time it is sometimes difficult to immediately understand what they want from us and how to get to the goal. But the authors themselves admit that puzzles in Supraland Creative, and the ability to solve them are so universal that they are many options for use. That is, all this encourages experiments, to unite the skills (or return, when they appear) to find creative and not always obvious, but in fact it is a logical decision.

IN Supraland Fully interesting and unusual puzzles, many of which involve and run, and jumping, and reaction. Create a purple cube on the push platform, then quickly shry the ball into the pipe, wait for it to crash through it, clicks the button, the button will crush, depart and press another button, and to start jumping in the direction of the door, which opens a maximum of a couple of seconds- this is very typical of this game the situation.

The importance of research, search and accumulation is not at the same time. Because enemies get bigger, they are fixed and crowned, activate impenetrable shields and prevent us in every way to think about how to solve another puzzle. Even huge “bosses” appear – with their tactics and powerful skills. Therefore, weapons need to pump, and health, and regeneration.

Walter, well, it’s still a playground!
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In general, in Supraland Such different mechanics of role-playing adventures and puzzle are quite logical and harmoniously interrelated. Although connoisseurs of clean work of the brain may have been better without battles (although they were here and so less than puzzles). But in this case, it would be just another good puzzle game in the spirit Portal. Now, of such an unusual mixture of French with Nizhny Novgorod, a real masterpiece turned out, about which they already say – they say, it should look like that Portal 3. I completely agree. Is that a funny interlocutor lacking. On the other hand, in Supraland also enough reasons to smile. Well, where else will you meet the toy Walter White, which in the kitchen boils blue crystals, but assures that nothing is cooking there? Or find on the roof next to the pipe corpse of the toy Santa Claus, which poisoned by carbon black gas. I say, miracle, not a game. Definitely, while this is the best indie speech of the year.

Pros: Very fascinating gameplay at the junction of puzzle, RPG and metriculum;Many secrets and upgrades;a lot of interesting and difficult puzzles and obstacles;Pleasant eye picture.

Minuses: I want additives;The plot is too background.