The Pillar was a very pleasant surprise indeed. It may not challenge the brightest minds too much and it may borrow heavily from other games but it stitches it all together nicely. If you think of The Pillar Puzzle Escape as a starter puzzle game, I can’t find anything wrong with it at all. Some of the lighting and visual design is lovely. I didn’t mind that too much as the game is short but priced appropriately. This can mean that some puzzles feel harder than others whilst being in the same world, making the difficulty a bit of a rollercoaster rather than a line. As it is quite a focused game, each world brings in a new mechanic and adds it to the mix. It gave me great satisfaction to clear an area and seeing the pillar shining brightly and opening the next door was a rewarding goal to achieve. What I liked about The Pillar was that most puzzles could be solved by narrowing down options and being methodical. It took me about five hours to get through the main campaign but I’d imagine brainier players can zip through in just over three. The Pillar: Puzzle Escape - Walkthrough & Platinum Trophy Guide (Trophy & Achievement Guide) rus199410 PS4 The Pillar: Puzzle Escape - 100 Full Platinu. I love puzzle games, although I’m slow at them. Controls work well and the low poly vibe means that graphics are clean and easy to understand. Nothing ever feels really obtuse either although some of the visual puzzles that require you to see through windows or line up ceilings to reveal numbers may require a bit of fiddling to get all the info you need. The fun of The Pillar is that puzzles are short and often revealed in groups of 4 so if you have a mental block on one of them, you can come back to it after a doing some others. These laser beam reflectors need some aiming. It is a simple mechanic that is used in lots of different ways. The podium Once done, head up the tunnel. The Pillar also switches this up, having the line move around quickly and asks you to repeat it, drawing patterns you’ll have spotted on walls and so on. The first panel set will consist of three very simple puzzles: a 4x4 maze, a dot puzzle, and a slightly larger maze. This mobile game has been around for ages but placed into a wider grander puzzle game here. By line puzzles I mean you’ll have a grid full of matching dot colours and you’ll need to join them u without breaking the lines. Each time is rises it then unveils small, short line based puzzles on it to be completed. Anyway, the Goron will then walk on mid-air in escape. Environmental puzzles such as triggering switches, jumping through portals and unlocking codes from visual clues will allow the pillar to rise higher. Ride the tall pillar up to the second floor and head east a room. The Pillar is a small scaled low poly puzzle game where each area has a rising pillar out of the ground. The joy of line puzzles is strong in this one. If you enjoyed The Witness but found the puzzles perhaps too tricky and wanted a gentler and more immediately accessible entry to line, laser and line of sight puzzle games – The Pillar Puzzle Escape might be just what you are looking for.
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