What a neat little game.
I came to Pony Island years after playing Mullen's other title Inscryption which I adored. I do wish I played Pony Island first ahead of Inscryption as it is similar in its storytelling style, but you can tell they have honed their craft once they arrived at Inscryption. Their ability to setup interesting player interaction and predict what a player might attempt and meet it with an interesting, cryptic, and weird answer is always a joy to play through.
With that said, Pony island is a mechanically simple game that can be primarily played with just the mouse with a fun interactive story that I don't want to spoil. The game creates a lot of unique and interesting sets of interactions between the player, the game, and developer.
Past that, this game is only two hours and on sale cost me $0.89 CAD, so yeah, spend the less then a dollar for a fun 2 hour experience that will suck the soul out of you :)
I came to Pony Island years after playing Mullen's other title Inscryption which I adored. I do wish I played Pony Island first ahead of Inscryption as it is similar in its storytelling style, but you can tell they have honed their craft once they arrived at Inscryption. Their ability to setup interesting player interaction and predict what a player might attempt and meet it with an interesting, cryptic, and weird answer is always a joy to play through.
With that said, Pony island is a mechanically simple game that can be primarily played with just the mouse with a fun interactive story that I don't want to spoil. The game creates a lot of unique and interesting sets of interactions between the player, the game, and developer.
Past that, this game is only two hours and on sale cost me $0.89 CAD, so yeah, spend the less then a dollar for a fun 2 hour experience that will suck the soul out of you :)
I love how creative Daniel Mullins gets at the moment of playing and breaking the core elements that compile the experience of playing videogames.
Keeping its boundaries clear and small in comparison to Inscription, Pony Island still conveys a really rounded and fresh experience.
This game is also an essay on how game feel and packing can turn simple gameplay ideas in strong experiences.
The "disgusting thing moment" got me.
Keeping its boundaries clear and small in comparison to Inscription, Pony Island still conveys a really rounded and fresh experience.
This game is also an essay on how game feel and packing can turn simple gameplay ideas in strong experiences.
The "disgusting thing moment" got me.
while it was very interesting to see what is clearly a precursor to the masterpiece that is inscryption, this really does feel like a rough draft. inscryption's genius was marrying metanarrative with a genuinely compelling gameplay loop. the puzzles are pretty cool, but the runner sections are pretty lackluster. all that said, i am VERY curious what pony island 2 will look like.
No estoy en condiciones de reseñar este juego, así que simplemente dejo mis impresiones de lo que recuerdo cuando lo jugué, por allá en 2017.
El juego es definitivamente interesante, mas no lo recomiendo a cualquiera. Es algo críptico de descifrar, y si eso es algo que agradecerías tener en un juego, pues adelante, este es el juego indicado.
La nota que le doy es tentativamente 5/10, ya que recuerdo haber disfrutado del juego, cosa que no puedo decir de otros juegos en mi lista, mas es probable que esta nota no sea muy precisa.
El juego es definitivamente interesante, mas no lo recomiendo a cualquiera. Es algo críptico de descifrar, y si eso es algo que agradecerías tener en un juego, pues adelante, este es el juego indicado.
La nota que le doy es tentativamente 5/10, ya que recuerdo haber disfrutado del juego, cosa que no puedo decir de otros juegos en mi lista, mas es probable que esta nota no sea muy precisa.