Unfold: Victim of the Pyramid

 

Saw this on a special offer at Alley Cat Games with another Unfold product plus the Demo game and things got off to a terrible start with the Demo....bring a torch and a magnifying glass is all I will say about that.

This one is the proper full-sized product -- although it's not big, maybe hovering between A5 and A6 -- and it's one of those products I can admire the execution and design and be left totally cold by the narrative and the puzzling experience itself.

The concept is you basically unfold the thing, each two page spread having some text and a puzzle, ostensibly telling a story of you doing something -- in this case, breaking into a pyramid to free your loved one who is destined to be sacrificed. The puzzles sometimes involve items tucked into the product, I did enjoy building a little pyramid, I liked the bead puzzle (although it was terribly easy), I hated the amulet puzzle (which was terribly unintuitive and didn't make sense as to what to do even with the hint used) (to me anyway).

So puzzle-wise it was ok, I found it quite dark (in terms of colour rather than theme) and small writing (to pack everything into a small package) and a bit eye straining (but this could of course be because I AM OLD AND THINGS ARE FALLING APART).

What is very unusual for me is ... I just stopped. I don't do that, even if I'm finding something to be a chore I usually trudge on to the end, even it's ridiculous, I carry on - this time...it just bored me too much.

I have the other one to do -- Unfold: Dark Story -- but I don't know if I actually can be bothered to do it.