And yet there is a lot of space for creativity – you will sometimes have to use tips and look at clouds with dialogues from several sides, trying to understand the tangle of thoughts of local heroes and characters.īut the key place in Machinarium is still reserved for the atmosphere – even a quick look at the scenery helps to understand how far the robot universe is from Earth. The whole plot is linear – it is impossible to rewrite history in an unexpected way, accidentally making a mistake – the hero has to go all the way – from the appearance of the Gang to the rescue of his beloved – along a pre-planned route, almost without being distracted by extraneous things. Like its competitors, the puzzle offers to navigate pre-prepared locations, collect items, explore the details of the scenery and interact with the characters added for the sake of clues, additional plot details or challenges.
The Machinarium quest is partly built on the generally accepted ideas and concepts of the Point and Click genre. There are no Free-To-Play items with subscriptions, additional payments or advertising – everything is exactly the same as on MacOS, Windows, PlayStation and Xbox.
The release of the mobile adaptation of the Machinarium puzzle for Android and iOS appeared with a delay of a year – the developers in a short period of time tried to rebuild the system for interacting with the decorations, rewrite some interface elements and open a number of secondary settings for the new audience that add atmosphere (mainly about sound and detail ).ĭespite the support of new platforms, the general concept has not changed – access to the universe of robots opens again after payment (from 179 rubles, depending on the region and the desired version). The science fiction of Machinarium is guessed in every frame – from the start to the finish line. The universe is unique – the city of robots is covered with the scars of recent struggles, revels in the smoke of factories and the noise of rotating machinery.The unexpectedly varied and grandiose tips in Machinarium offer you to solve a bunch of secondary tasks, and at the same time they offer you to choose whether to fully disclose secrets, or half.Need to shrink and squeeze? No problem – this option is also provided. Do you want to climb higher? Legs, arms and body can be easily pulled out of the metal body. Robot Josef is flexible and able to change “physically” depending on the situation.
And only Joseph – the protagonist of the game Machinarium – is forced to intervene in the situation, and even then because of the kidnapped girl, and not because of the accumulated heroism. The situation got out of control long ago, but there is no one to stop the gang – at the sight of insidious representatives of a criminal organization, the townspeople try to hide in their homes or hide in bars and restaurants. Hooligans and crooks are implicated in the theft of a gramophone, and in shooting with a slingshot at local residents, and even in an attack on the mayor, who has recently been infected with black hat parasites. Machinarium is a large-scale, extraordinary and extremely experimental point and click puzzle game centered around the city of robots, where the Black Hats Gang has been rampaging for six months.