I did enjoy the fact that there was very little backtracking in the game. The game is anywhere from 3-4 hours long depending on your puzzle-solving skills. There are clues hidden all over the game on how to solve most of the harder puzzles, but not always near to each other, so try to remember everything that looks important. I loved how he would hurl the item back up when he got back to Tommynaut regardless of its size. Beak-Beak will often get to go on his own very short side-excursions to collect (eat) items or learn some backstory. I enjoyed the ones where Tommynaut and Beak-Beak had to work together to solve them.

Most of the puzzles are fairly intuitive while others require a bit of brainpower. My only other complaint with the controls were on the numerous cart ride sequences where your cart managed to snag at EVERY intersection point. The snapping cursor totally ruins these puzzles – something I didn’t figure out until the third puzzle, at which point I switched to a free cursor to complete the puzzle then switched back after. Without a mouse or visual clues to hotspots the snapping cursor is ideally your best bet until you get to any of the half-dozen puzzles that require you to rotate a central wheel to move around sliding tiles into any of four slots.

The first is a free-floating cursor and the other is a cursor that will snap to hotspots on the screen. Sadly, the controls were my only serious issue with the game. It’s pretty standard fare as far as adventure games go where you click to walk around and interact with objects to solve mechanical and environmental puzzles to access new areas. The game would grind to a halt on occasion when a troublesome puzzle blocked my progress, or the irksome controls ruined my flow.Īrmikrog tells the tale of Tommynaut and his blind dog, Beak-Beak as they crash on an alien planet and must explore an ancient temple to find a way off the planet and maybe rescue a baby in the process. The entire experience of playing Armikrog was a bit of a rollercoaster with an exhilarating opening movie that showcased some outstanding Claymation skills before dropping me into a standard 2D side-scrolling adventure game. So how well does a point-n-click adventure game work on a console and gamepad? Not as good as I had hoped, sadly.

Armikrog has been out on the PC for quite some time now but today marks its debut on the PlayStation 4.

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