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jp's Creaks (PC)
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| [October 4, 2025 06:49:17 PM]
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I felt I was close enough to the end that I might as well see it through. I was also curious about the giant monster!
And so, 6 hours in, I can say I finished the game! (picked up all the trophies along the way as well - which wasn't too hard tbh, but still worth it - you have to pay a lot of attention so as not to miss some of the secret rooms, but since you can go back to any scene, it's not too punishing really. Also, the interactive paintings were a nice change of pace.
As for new things?
Well, there were three new enemy types! A female version of spiky-head (I don't remember what I called in my last post) - this enemy does the opposite of you: if you go left, she goes right, and vice versa (I know they're male/female because there's a puzzle in which you're able to bring to of them together and they embrace and it's romantic with hearts and all). Then there's the goat - that runs away from you to another patch of grass and can also, sometimes, jump up to higher/lower platforms, and the "elephant trunk". The goat turns into a chair you can stand on and the elephant trunk turns into a pipe from which water flows. The trunk comes up to "sniff you out" which is how you get it to change position before turning on a light. The last two aren't used in that many puzzles (good thing, I was starting to get a bit antsy tbh), and the game's ending was interesting..
a. You get a final light crystal that's used to take care of the giant boss 0- this area is deep underground - and you see a flower-headed creature! It's just there, chillin', which was intriguing, but nothing else happens...sort of teasing a future game?
b. There's a lot of cut-scenes at the end, which was a bit tiresome - but the fun part is you basically (by following one of the bird creatures) ride a elevators/platforms all the way back to the top where you started. This is all following routes you can sometimes see on the way down, and it was neat to move past all these puzzles you solved! I enjoyed the trip back only for that!
c. There's really no more puzzles - so, no final "boss puzzle" Which would have been a bad idea? it would have to be real-time? I don't know, I'm glad there wasn't another puzzle to work on...
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| [September 28, 2025 11:47:04 PM]
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I love Amanita Design's games but this one seems like a bit of a departure from the ones I've played before (Samorost and perhaps some of the sequels). Mostly because this one feels much more like a puzzle game and less like an adventure game? As in, the puzzles are much more structured, following rules introduced, contained to specific areas, and so on. Adventure games tend to have more bespoke puzzles with inventory items and such. I'm not saying this as a bad thing - just that it's not what I expected...
And it's fun - I think I'm about 70% done or so? Maybe a bit less - I'm just going on the number of paintings I've discovered... It's, as with most puzzle games, pretty remarkable how much variation and interesting puzzles you can get with just a few rules and an interesting layout. At this point we have the dogs (that turn into nightstands with light), the floating jellyfish (that follow specific paths and turn into map globes), and the spiky heads (that mimic your left/right moves, and turn into coatracks in light), there's also the green switch that turns on/off the lamps with a green indicator, and the floor pressure plates. So far, the entire puzzle part of the game is built around these few elements. I wouldn't be surprised to learn there's one more?
I'm also enjoying the mini-games in the interactive paintings (not all paintings are mini-games, but the ones that are, are cute and fun and short enough). There's a trophy for beating each one - so there's a bit of an incentive to complete them. From looking at my steam record I have 50% of the trophies, which means I've either missed a few (likely)_or that I'm half done with the game? I'm almost four hours in...so I'm hoping I'm more than half done to be honest, I'm enjoying my games short!
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jp's Creaks (PC)
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Current Status: Finished playing
GameLog started on: Saturday 27 September, 2025
GameLog closed on: Saturday 4 October, 2025 |
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