The Panel Remake

Fun little escape game

I wound up getting a refund on this one. In about 20 minutes I would estimate I was ~ 1/3 of the way through. It just isn't fun - I was still at the point of turning valves randomly to see whether anything would happen and never got to the point of intentionally accomplishing anything. I stopped when I had to enter a 4-digit code that I had no clues for because I realize I didn't care enough to go back and search again to see whether I had missed anything. One of the oddest things is something that's a cross between a diary and a solution manual -- it spell out in great detail what you have done as you advance in the game -- but you can't use it as a hint because it only completes after you solve things, but it's not narratively interesting either as it's pretty much a mechanical description of the solution you just did. I'm sure what the purpose of that is actually. But as I said, the game never grabbed enough to be overly curious. Yes, it's cheap. No, it's not worth it.

Short and sweet puzzle game. Definitely a hidden gem, worth the 99¢ (or more, considering that the developers remade the game from scratch a few years ago). I had no trouble with the English translation. There is one minor bug: [list] [*]When going to main menu, quitting the game, or finishing the game, it gets stuck on a black screen. I had to force quit and reopen the game whenever this happened. [/list] Check out my guide if you're hunting for your last achievements!

1rst review: 2019-07-04 2nd review: 2019-11-10 [b]In Options menu:[/b] [list] [*] Fullscreen checkbox and dropdown arrow style are not in a pixelated style while the rest of the game is. I would change those to stay consistent. 2019-11-10 Fixed [*] If you click new game and go inside the options menu, the new game name panel is on top of the menu. Going in a different menu should hide the new game name panel. 2019-11-10 Fixed [/list] [b] Main menu:[/b] [list] [*] I'm not too sure about the saturated red and green color button when you enter your game name. I think it kinda clashes a bit with the other color on that screen? 2019-11-10 Changed Has been changed to orange-brown, but now I'm not sure it is 100% better. Maybe the best would be to have an orange-brown with a small tint of green/red? because the green and red does indicate to the player red = cancel and green = validate. [*] You can actually make 2 games with the same name? There was no confirmation of anyt...

It's a nice little puzzle game. Some of the hints are a bit hard to get or notice, I got stuck in 2 places. Overall quite enjoyable, but there isn't much replay value except for achievements.