Insane

In brief Insane is a Logical remake that's not quite there. Before I get into why I don't recommend Insane I need to talk about Logical. I first played it on the C64 way back in the day. I really liked three things about: it's puzzle nature, the frenetic action and the musc. Time passed and I moved on from my C64 to a PC and played the DOS port of logical. It lost something in translation, the music most notably but also the mouse controls never really felt as good as the C64's weird joystick scheme. Insane, unfortunately, lost something even further in translation. It's by far the prettiest Logical I've seen and the music is servicable (not as memorable as the strange sad upbeat music of the original). But... The problem lies with the controls and the gameplay speed. The locks turn very, very slowly. The Commodore version had exactly one frame of animation on the diagonal. Those locks could be spun fast, literally about 10 to 15 quarter revolutions a second. And it was ne...

Insane is an older game from 2016. It's a venerable 8 years old at the time of this review. It's a easy to learn, difficult to master puzzle game where you're presented with a series of socketed wheels. Marbles roll at you at a set pace (whether you like it or not) and you have to rotate the wheels to populate all of them. In some ways this isn't completely different from the 1980's boardgame/toy, Downfall, where you rotate cogs to try get all your pieces through the system before your opponent on the other side. Okay. But there's more. You need to populate all the wheels with marbles of matching colour, weirdly, so they all explode at the same time. I'm not sure what the exploding is for. To make a hum drum boring concept more exciting? From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there's 3D graphics and even a couple of settings, it's just a fairly static playing board. I mean, the static whee...

Seem to be same as old Amiga version, thumb's up