Drew and the Floating Labyrinth

Thumbs down to Doodles Navigating a Sidewalk: the Videogame! Okay, okay. That was uncalled for. Actually, Drew and the Floating Labyrinth does a few things well, but not enough to recommend it to most people and certainly not for anything approaching the eight dollar asking price. Floating Labyrinth is a puzzle game in which you attempt to navigate a path of floating cubes obscured by various visual tricks. The puzzles are largely well designed with each unique trick having 10 short levels dedicated to it, which - with the exception of a few outliars - increase in difficulty from a tutorial level to a fairly complex challenge that will take your average adult player a few goes to get right. It all comes together in the last approximately 20 levels where all the various visual conundrums are combined to good effect. For the most part, Floating Labyrinth never feels too easy or controller-snappingly difficult, though there were a fair amount that I ended up solving by tricky jum...

Well.... It's a fairly interesting puzzle platform game (yes, platform, not platformer). If you think you would enjoy a puzzle game in which you are trying to use clues to traverse a path of blocks, I do recommend it. I enjoyed it, with the exception of one of the levels which had absolutely no way to "solve" it without simply doing trial-and-error and falling again and again. That brings me to the first complaint I had. The companion Drew has helping her through this puzzle space is very willing to tell you the advice for the current sequence of stages. The first time he says "shadows can tell you something about your surroundings" [slightly paraphrased], it's helpful... the eighth time he says the same thing, I started having flashbacks to Zelda OOT's Navi "Hey Listen!". This could be solved by putting an option to turn off the random "help" in the options, but the option screen is somewhat bare, with no option to turn off the repetitive comments. My second issue: Its length....

This game is very minimal but also very clever. The levels are mazes made of invisible floating platforms. As you try to figure out where the path is you will be mentaly challenged and take a leap of faith with every step. That is the story of this game it is minimal, the graphics are nothing special, and this is the first game of an small development team. Yet if you take a leap of faith with it you will not regret the purchase. It has clever and challenging puzzles, unique mechanics, and an effective story.

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Some of these puzzles make no sense but overall I enjoyed this game. The story itself is sweet and interesting enough to keep you going to the end.

I'm enjoying this. I think it's a clever short puzzle game and the animation is really nice.