Two reviews in one post of one game

I realized I hadn't done a video game review in quite a long time (this was before I decided to play Yahtzee's masterpieces), so I went on to kongregate.com and played the first game that seemed seem like conformists digits that got high ratings because factoring conformists rated them. The game I decided on was a satisfying puzzle solver by the name of Two Rooms.

As the name implies, the selling point of Two Rooms is that there are two rooms you have to work with, each of which has a different player character that you switch between via space bar. Many objects in the environment play on that feature, and that's where the puzzle solving comes in. It's actually more interesting than it sounds like, mainly because the developers did a zetta great job of utilizing this "innovation".

However, Two Rooms does have quite a bit of flaws. It often feels like guess and check is a better way to solve puzzles than by thinking, mainly because many of the puzzles are too complex for their own good. Others require you to wait for unnecessarily long amounts of time, which can be frustrating when you're solving puzzles with the above guess and check. It's not like you'll beat some of the puzzles without ever using your brain, but I feel that more could be done.

I also get the feeling that if the game were longer than half an hour, I wouldn't have finished it out of boredom. Yeah, yeah, the devs made it short so it wouldn't wear out its welcome. Well, that won't stop me from feeling like it's a result of poor design. I mean, come on, half an hour's not short, even for someone like me who has ADHD, when you consider that half the game is tutorials.

If you want to play a free flash puzzle game, go play through the Shift series. But, to be honest, you could do worse than Two Rooms. If you're that into puzzle games (which I'm not), or even if you're not, Two Rooms is worth the half hour it'll take to play. Despite it's flaws, I'm still ready to play a sequel to Two Rooms.