Minute of Islands would have benefited from better gameplay, or from ditching the platforming to play more like a point and click adventure.Minute of Islands places players on a strange and beautiful archipelago. However, the problem is that most of the game is spent in confusion navigating unclear platforms, which is not particularly compelling. Minute of Islands is worth playing to experience some very unique elements: beautiful hand-drawn graphics combined with an eerie soundtrack, an original sea-faring world in decay, and a mature story carried by a fantastic narration.
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Still, I am glad that I pushed through the 5-6 hours of content, because the destination elevates the journey. If all you have is a keyboard, be aware that the control scheme isn’t very practical (arrow keys rather than WASD) and the keys are not rebindable. My only enjoyment from the game mechanics was that my controller was vibrating whenever I was fixing power sources, which conveyed directly to me the magnitude of the power that was released, as well as the effort that was required from Mo. The nightmare world segments were easier to navigate and visually quirky, but their mechanics were ultimately repetitive despite the strong potential for innovation. Since all caves looked the same and had three boxes to push, they felt like a tedious routine and I wish they had been shorter and more straightforward since they did not add much to the experience and only managed to make me sigh and hope to get past them as quickly as possible. The puzzles were not too difficult, mostly standard levers and switches or boxes to push.
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Entering a cave was the worst, as it didn’t feature the glorious mess left on the surface, nor the weird sights of the nightmare world.
#MINUTE OF ISLANDS TRIAL#
It was never clear whether I could jump up or down most surfaces, and simply walking felt like unappealing trial and error! Is this the background or the foreground? Should I drop down from this platform on its left side, or should I walk to its right side? Can I jump from here or do I need to go all the way over there? Is this too high, even though it is lower than the other platform that I can climb? At least some areas are marked with some sort of white guano to show that Mo can grab a ledge.
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From cavernous mazes to tricky cliffs, I was constantly struggling with navigating Minute of Islands’ platforms, which made admiring the art on display all the less satisfying. For Mo, the burden of saving the world is tainted by the sour taste of loneliness and depression.Ī burden to Mo, it felt like a chore to me. The whole adventure is a chilling experience, and unlike in many other video games, I was sometimes dreading to find out what awaited me at my next destination. As if to put more emphasis on the distance between Mo and everyone else, the few dialogues present in the game are told through the omnipresent narrator, with a voice sometimes as cold as a blade. She is alienated from her family, spending her time hidden in the bowels of underground bio-mechanical constructions in service of the giants. Our main character, Mo, is also not a poster child for joy. Despite the straight lines and bright colors out of an animated cartoon for children, this is a world reeking of death, overtrodden with decay. A fungus has extinguished almost all living things and threatens to deal with what little of life there is left, if the giants do not quickly get back to turning the wheels of the machines that purify the air. However, Minute of Islands’ world is of boats, beached whales with their guts spilled, and spores.
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When picturing a post-apocalyptic world, the desolation of sand and the roar of diesel engines quickly comes to mind.