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Despite this, it is a very good, if simple, game that I played through, to completion, in a single sitting. The isometric jump puzzle genre died a long time ago, as far as I’m concerned, and while Lumo is a very well done homage to this, it just brought back the urge to assume the fetal position and rock myself back to sanity. Lumo suffers from some fairly serious shortcomings, but they are shortcomings by design. Thankfully, the puzzles were fairly simple on the whole, and even backtracking to pick up missed pieces didn’t make me ever feel lost, which is saying something, as I can probably manage to get lost trying to get out of bed in the morning. It’s not that it’s inaccurate, but that it separates into 19 or so different sections, it doesn’t start you on the page that you’re on, nor does it have a handy “You are here” pointer to assist you in navigating. There are collectable pages to a map system that only infuriated me to try to use.
LUMO REVIEW TRIAL
When you collect one of these ducks, it will only save when you change rooms, so even if it’s a step in reverse, just go back the way you came, re-enter the room with the duck already collected, and move through the room without fear of having to endure the jump trial again. Lumo is a charming throwback to the isometric arcade adventure games of the 1980s, but is held back. If you are holding jump when you jump onto one of these ducks, you will bounce again, a la Mario jump mechanics, and you will have to, from there, make anywhere from one to five additional jumps, usually with crumbling platforms. Yellow rubber ducks are a collectable in Lumo that can be found floating on the surface of the water in many rooms.
The water means death, if you land in it. Outside of this artificial difficulty spike, the game is fairly simple and forgiving in adventure mode, and while there are extra traps and hazards added to arcade mode, they pale in comparison to the deaths you will rack up collecting all of the rubber duckies. There’s controls to rotate the camera, but you can only rotate about 5 degrees to each direction, providing you very little insight into the distance between platforms nested behind each other, through the perspective, and will undoubtedly lead you to jumping into ‘the drink’ repeatedly, which, in adventure mode, just puts you back at the beginning of the room. Ive got a piece of shocking news Ive converted to a different brand of luggage. Really enjoyed the first halfs goofy tone and puzzle focus, but the latter half asks the player to thread a needle with a blindfold on.
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