Comments on: Stretchy Robots: New Machinarium Footage

By: Taillefer

Taillefer — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:33:46 +0000

The disguise bit put a big grin on my face. Awww.
It would almost be enough for this to just be a slideshow. Stunning stuff.

By: Saul

Saul — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:57:39 +0000

Wow. I want to live in Robot City.

By: Kua

Kua — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:21:21 +0000

I can’t tell you how much I wanted to click the play button at the beginning. Adjusting the height of the robot (presumably the protagonist – that’s a word I love using, probably inappropriately here, but still I loved using it) looks like a fun game mechanic. But honestly the music and art is so atmospheric and just so lurvely, that the fact its the slightest bit interactive is just a bonus – if the gameplay is a genuine leap forward then hurrah!

By: esquar

esquar — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:23:21 +0000

Looking delicious! At first I didn’t think I’d like it, thinking back to samorost 1 and 2, which were great, but they were also free webgames.
This game actually looks like it has some fun mechanics, you don’t see too much of that in clickety-click adventures!

By: Igor Hardy

Igor Hardy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:06:40 +0000

Brings Another World to mind. Not only the atmosphere, but the puzzles seem similarly physical in nature.

By: noexes

noexes — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:06:40 +0000

I’m not a big fan of adventure games generally, but this looks like it’s going to have such a strong atmosphere that I’m going to love it anyway.

By: Conquests

Conquests — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:41:28 +0000

Btw this goes to show the importance of actual interaction, that is, how deep is your reasoning, and even the most beautiful looking game, like this, without good puzzles will be a waste.

By: Conquests

Conquests — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:38:58 +0000

@Markoff Chaney: I agree with you, i hope the puzzles are deep, smart and hard enuff to be any fun. Ïf they’re too easy and oriented to random clicking, it’s gonna be a big let-down.

By: Nero

Nero — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:21:48 +0000

Wow, just wow.

By: Jubaal

Jubaal — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:05:31 +0000

Looks very nicely put together. This doesn’t look like my normal kind of game, but Iit would be all kinds of wrong for me to miss out on this one.

By: Pags

Pags — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:48:31 +0000

Such a lovely looking game, for some reason the screens and trailers make me think ‘children’s book’.

By: Candid_Man

Candid_Man — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:04:08 +0000

Some of the scenes have a distinctive Tsutomu Nihei-style of cramped, upward architecture. They remind me of the ruined human sections in the latter part of the BLAME! series.

On a related note, I hope a BLAME! game is in the pipe for the coming decade or something. That manga just screams “videogame” at every available opportunity – that and “Zdzisław Beksiński”.