Review anarchistica 2/5 · Nov 11, 2018
Fall flat
Flat Kingdom has a nice little shapeshifting mechanic that should have been used just for puzzles but unfortunately was used for combat as well. The puzzles work, the combat is rather tedious. You walk up to an enemy and press the appropriate button.
What kills the game are the details. I honestly got stuck early on because i couldn't jump …
Flat Kingdom has a nice little shapeshifting mechanic that should have been used just for puzzles but unfortunately was used for combat as well. The puzzles work, the combat is rather tedious. You walk up to an enemy and press the appropriate button.
What kills the game are the details. I honestly got stuck early on because i couldn't jump on a plan and i thought there had to be some other solution. Turns out, the jump simply doesn't make sense and only works some of the time. Another problem is that shapeshifting isn't instant, so i got hurt a couple of times because of the delay. Combined with the combat it really slows the game down. Also, who makes a menu in which you have to confirm selections with Space? And why can't you bring up the menu while playing the game? Are you supposed to always use Alt+F4? Huh?
