The graphics are weak, with faces poorly animated and terrible voice acting that destroys the mood and tone of the game. Sounds great doesn’t it? But things take a turn for the worse when it comes to the needlessly long and intrusive cutscenes. If the game senses you’ve spent too long on a certain aspect of the puzzle, it’ll allow you to view a hint to guide you on your way, with a maximum of three increasingly clarifying hints per section. This might seem too complex and off-putting, but you’re given a thorough explanation of what to do and how to do it at the very start, plus a hint system is available if you need it. Notably, therefore, there’s an awful lot of experimentation involved in solving each puzzle – whilst the solution is the same each time, limiting the games replayability – you could spend hours immersed in a single puzzle. The 3D mechanical puzzles on display are complicated further by the ability to travel backwards in time to alter your environment in the future, freeing up pathways not visible to you before.
From early on you can tell that it’s not going to be a walk in a park and, after learning the basic controls and concepts of the game, the difficulty curve really ramps up. The game really shines in these puzzle segments. You must use your intuition to navigate each one, using tools you uncover on your way. After testing your puzzle solving abilities, whilst helping you escape from prison, Giacomo becomes his prodigy and must solve a serious of increasingly difficult challenges to help unearth the greatest discovery in human history.Įach puzzle starts when you’re dropped in front of an object, device or contraption with little to no clue on what to do and how to solve it. I’ve sunk hours into the previous game, and plenty similar, on mobile – but the switch to the Switch exacerbates the titles difficulties.Īs you’d have thought, it’s a game where Renaissance puzzle master Leonardo da Vinci takes centre stage.
The 3D mechanical puzzler, the second in the series, follows in its predecessors footsteps by making the move from mobile to Switch. Blue Brain Games’ The House of Da Vinci 2 is my kind of game.
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