Selenitic age is beautiful and probably the best looking age but that fucking underground tunnel puzzle made me pull out my hair. Sucks because the first puzzle is the best one in the game
As someone who loves many unconventional gaming experiences that other players hate, like Shenmue, for example, I want to love this and admire it for its artistic originality. But I can't shake the perception that it's boring, dull, time-consuming, unrewarding, and needlessly difficult. Maybe I'm too dumb to appreciate it, but I don't enjoy it atmospherically, I don't like any of the puzzles, and it's just frustrating and unpleasant.
It can be a little difficult at times. On my first playthrough back in 2016 (when I was 15), I didn't realize that the noises that the maglev in Selenitic makes hint where you're supposed to go, so I constructed a map on graph paper showing every possible path to find the exit. Things like that are definitely more a staple of early PC adventure games that haven't held up well in the modern era but this is still one of my favorite games ever due to its atmosphere. I even recreated one of the 1993 posters in Photoshop to print out and hang on my wall.
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