Unnatural and even a little uncomfortable. Couldn’t there have beenĬonversations on how to complete the next puzzle or why they are choosing to continue? The narrator makes the entire experience seem Literally standing right next to each other.

They are, after all, working together and This form of story presentation is awkward at best and can’t helpīut wonder how different the experience would have been if the two charactersĪctually spoke to one another. The entire experience, designed to create some type of back story and incentive However, there is a narrator thatĪnnounces the happenings and plot at random points and feels shoehorned into The screenshots look great but the twisting and turning ofĬolor in motion is always appealing. On the plus side, this is a vibrant lookingĭownloadable game. Combine this with the character’s floaty jumps, loose marionette animations,Īnd the need to collect a bagillion scarves, this co-op puzzle platformer grows Instead, they just sit there and wait for Hoping the AI would kick in and essentially demonstration what to do.

There were many times I had no clue how to solve a puzzle, When playing solo, the shoulder buttons switch betweenĬharacters and can activate a follow command.įor the most part, the AI will follow but will rarely, if ever, assist Where one player controls each character, it is obvious that the single playerĮxperience will suffer. Since the entire game is built around co-op play, The player, and often requires pixel perfection to the point of annoyance. The biggest problem with this is the constant blue/orange barrier onĬontrol of the player, making the success of most puzzles seem random, goes against Rime can push a snowball to reach new heights,Īnd so on. The heat coming from Ember can ignite lights

Water whereas Rime will walk on top of it by instantly creating ice. To touch one another, the screen twists and turns from hot to cold depending onĮntire game is based around this one gameplay element for better and Playing as two protagonists simultaneously, EmberĬontrols heat and fire whereas Rime is the master of ice and cold. Unfortunately, many of the environmental hazards are over designed, causing tedium and frustration instead of fun and entertainment. Not an enemy in sight, the meat of gameplay revolves around solving one environmental puzzle after the other. With whimsical visual splendor and gameplay built for co-op, Degrees of Separation has its heart and soul in the right place.

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