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Reviews for "Snow Yourself"
i just dont give 5 stars cause im not a puzzle fan but the idea of the game is perfect
i will eat the snow
Cool idea, but the amount of precision needed for some solutions is ridiculous
Hmm, I think it's a pretty unique and creative concept, but unfortunately maybe it was a bit too unique for me as I just couldn't wrap my head around it and found the controls to be very unintuitive and clunky.
It started out pretty strong with the first few puzzles: I had some minor issues understanding the controls and grappling with the camera, but for the most part it was ok as I enjoyed shaping myself around and thought there were some interesting tricks like shaping myself within the slanted pit to form the shape since doing it on flat ground wasn't feasible. I did feel like the aspect of finding of the snowballs to be able to actually start to create the target shape was unnecessary filler/busywork, but I guess without it the game might be too easy? It almost felt like finding the snowballs was the hard part while building it was the easy part, when it should be the opposite.
Later on, tho, it just got more and more weird: I solved a lot of puzzles through some ways that I felt were not the intended way, like exploiting physics by chucking snowballs, but I just didn't know what else to do since I still found many aspects, like the whole remote controlling of snow based on your circle of influence, to be very unwieldly and difficult to parse. Eventually I got stuck at the puzzle where you get some gray outlined snowballs: I imagine they had some sort of property that I needed to utilize, but for me, they just felt very frustrating to manipulate as they'd get stuck on things and eventually glitched through the floor for me. I also found it weird that, when you get into an unwinnable situation like dropping your snowball down a bit, the game doesn't automatically reset.
Again, I think its a unique concept that has merit, but overall the game just felt very janky and difficult to control and understand, and that got in the way of what could've been some enjoyable brainteasers.