Score: 7
"Innovative Advertisement"
date: October 22, 2009
The concept is solid, and the visuals are entertaining, with a strong focus on creativity and exploration. You really have to tinker with everything to make your way through the game, and the animations are relatively amusing. It's bright, colorful, and about as mind-expanding as you can get without eating psychotropic berries.
Unfortunately, the gameplay itself, and the mechanisms by which your inquisitive little persona travels about, are not exactly intuitive. You sort of just click and drag everything until you finally muddle through. This isn't rocket science, exactly, but there isn't much in the way of direction, either. What you end up with is a lot of pretty pictures and animations and a lot of random clicking.
Finally, and this is my biggest complaint, it's basically a very well-designed ad. The designers obviously worked rather hard, and I definitely think credit should be given where it's due, but I always cringe a bit when I find that a neat-looking game is really just an elaborate plug for a university or a brand of paper towels.
