Machinarium

**Frogacuda** · 18 Oct 2009, 03:33 AM

This is a lot better than the demo. A lot. It's a creepy Eastern European Neverhood for a new era.

**koda** · 19 Oct 2009, 08:34 PM

I'm not very far along at all (though I'm not sure how long this game is), but I'm really loving it. It's definitely a bit eerie, but at the same time everything is so beautiful.

I think my only complaint so far is that once you have an item from your inventory selected, right-clicking should just deselect it instead of bringing up that stupid Flash menu. I keep doing that, and it's kind of a pain to have to manually put each item back. I don't know if that could've been worked around or not.

The hint system is pretty awesome. I don't typically like to be given hints, though, and I've run into at least one puzzle where it seemed unavoidable. When you're going into the far-left prison cell to get the plunger gun, the lock opens for '4:45'... but how would I have known that if I didn't look at the hint? I didn't see anything in the game to suggest what the correct number would've been. I could've just been missing something, though.

Anyways, big thumbs-up on this.

**Frogacuda** · 19 Oct 2009, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by køda

The hint system is pretty awesome. I don't typically like to be given hints, though, and I've run into at least one puzzle where it seemed unavoidable. When you're going into the far-left prison cell to get the plunger gun, the lock opens for '4:45'... but how would I have known that if I didn't look at the hint? I didn't see anything in the game to suggest what the correct number would've been. I could've just been missing something, though.

In the next room over there's a clock. If you turn the light switch off, you'll see a highlighted time, 4:45.