Funky little puzzle game about a moth person doing… Something?
Not sure, really, this game is one of those ones with literally zero dialogue, zero setup (other than you pop out of a weird cyber cocoon), and zero answers. You kinda just go through the areas presented to you and figure out puzzles to advance.
Until you find a weird cyber-y panel on the floor, interact with it, and suddenly fly into the sky.
So far into the sky that you leave the world entirely, and end up in a new one.
And the world you were just in is nothing but this tiny orange orb, and you can carry it around? Uh oh…
Anyway, it seems something happened and someone just flew into this orange orb, so I suppose all you can do is find your way back inside and chase them down. And then suddenly crystal magic. Turns out this orange orb is a lot more than just a craggy plateau in a box, but that the crystals can affect the world around the sphere too.
Wait, is that, a green sphere! There are two of them!?
Hold on
Is this Patricks Parabox???
Well this just got interesting.
The game has a few very interesting (and slightly icky) biomes as you adventure through and solve puzzles by using the abilities of one world to affect the others. The game does a good job at railroading you to prevent softlocks. If a platform disappears behind you, it means that you do not need to go back. Kinda sucks if you miss one of the optional collectables, but the “Load Game” system will take you to any previous checkpoint where you think you missed something.
The player character is also swift enough that it makes traversal and hauling thine orbs back and forth not feel like a drag on the gameplay, and defeating the games various bosses and discovering the abilities of the orbs and how you can control them and make them interact with eachother is very charming to me. All in all a solid little puzzle game that takes about 3 hours to complete.
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1497440 £19.99
Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/cocoon £19.99
Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/COCOON-2451056.html £20.99
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