This is a game that cannot be aptly described but one that needs to be experienced.
The good thing is that there’s a demo to give you a taste if the game is really suited for your liking. Possibly plenty of broken keyboards along the way however. If tough isn’t a word in your vocabulary, Cubetractor is the ideal game for you. No fancy graphics here but it all works and serves no distractions to the player when there’s so much happening on screen. Definitely a game for the Dark Souls crowd.Ĭomplementing Cubetractor’s gameplay would be well designed visuals and sound design which comes together pretty well. And in order to do so you’d have to clear the level fast, pick up all collectibles and not get hit. Certified Geek Geek Spotlight Game Guides Geek Culture Awards Meet The Team. However, when it all comes together and completing a level with 3 stars, the sense of satisfaction is immense. To describe Cubetractor would require me to use a term that games are rarely labelled - mindnumbling challenging. Seeing how all these buttons are all in close proximity to each other and Cubetractor requires you to be mobile most of the time, I’m unable to envision how the average individual would be able to pull it all off consistently. Build stuff by pulling individual blocks together. Movement is executed with WASD, Space to pull and X to delete. With Cubetractor, controls are very much critical when you are dodging bullets, pulling cubes (which hurt you if you stand in their way) and building structures in specific locations. In Super Meat Boy, which was insanely hard as well, the controls in Team Meat‘s game was tight and precise. Not sure if game design was meant to be that way, the difficultly in Cubetractor hits you like a truck. It grew quite frustrating for me to control and move all in one hand. But what happens is that on top of each new element would be plenty of other obstacles in the way to punish the undexterous.Ĭubetractor is in need of tighter controls and a remapping feature. The game does well by teaching players a new element progressively in each tutorial level incrementally.
All things considered, you could half ass your way through the game but that’s not the point considering you’d want to 3 star rating every level for that sense of achievement. At its essence, Cubetractor is a puzzle game but throw in elements that require much precision and dexterity, Cubetractor becomes a genre all on its own.īy the time one hits the fourth tutorial level, you would have plenty of obstacles thrown your way that it comes more top down flight actioner than puzzle builder. Rank: 11413: Achievements: 5131 (3770. It seems that only indie developers these days are able to churn out games that require so much finesse. To describe Cubetractor would require me to use a term that games are rarely labelled – mindnumbling challenging.
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