▲ Recommended
1 hrs
This is a logic puzzle game in which you arrange the pieces to create a pattern.
✅The game has a lot of content, spanning 200 levels.
✅Low price.
✅Good 3D graphics and lighting effects.
✅Good, relaxing soundtrack.
✅If you like a challenge, this game is for you. You need to think logically.
❌In my opinion, there should be some hints, because some levels can be nerve-wracking :D
❌The game automatically takes screenshots.
✅✅ Verdict: Very Bad , Bad , Decent , Good , Very good (Rating scale for tested games)
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▲ Recommended
3 hrs
Mixed review time.
I've always been in love with puzzle and logic games, since the Flash era, since the '90s, how many months I spent on Dr. Mario, Tetris and I don't know what else..
This game could easily fit on some free Flash website, given its minimalistic approach, but it's still enjoyable.
Though, even if the game store page tells us that the interface is available in something like 30 different languages, at least the Italian translation is way beyond horrible - in fact, as a graduate in historical studies, I had to decipher many of the phrases on the official store.
And Steam rejected my application to translate something EN-IT but it's ok.
I made other reviews translating step by step and in a literal way every word, but for this one I'll stick with the first description:
"Risoluzione di puzzle illimitata Livelli illimitati, belle immagini e musica, prova questo magico gioco di puzzle che effetto educativo!"
This (which is completely wrong in Italian under every grammatical aspect) translates roughly as "Puzzle unlimited resolution Unlimited levels, beautiful pictures and music, try this magical puzzle game what an educational effect!"
Yeah you're allowed to re-read the translation a few times.. that's what's written.
This game is a puzzle one, minimalistic, relaxing. I can't really think of something educational in solving endless connect-the-pieces puzzles, but still..
For what concerns the game itself, its beauty and my positive reviews basically lean on the gameplay and on the relaxing/endless way it's been implemented.
The minimalistic approach is sometimes quite harsh to understand - there are no menus or text information, and you'll be thrown right into the first level without a tutorial. A menu on the right side of the screen will be opened by clicking on the lower right part of it, but it will fade away after some seconds without a chance to keep it on screen and that's not a great thing, especially if you add the fact that the horrible translation is present even there.. so you have to hover your mouse on the icon, read the broken Italian or whatever language the developers did not speak and after you read a line and tried to interpretate it, the menu will have faded.
But the positive thing is that you.. really don't need a menu. It allows you to access leaderboard charts (quite useless for me), restart the puzzle, go to the previous one or open a setting/pause menu (that's pretty hidden too - the settings will open only after you click on pause), which are pretty useless too since they refer to audio and video options. But the game is so minimalistic that I really doubt they will change something for real, so I kept them all at their default.. and on the other side, the third option will be labeled "gioco" (meaning "game") and will let you change the in-game language. I suggest you to change it as soon as possible to English, in order at least to have something grammatically correct.. with such an Italian translation, I highly doubt that the other 30+ translations are all flawless xD
Ok, back to the game, as I was saying its core consists of a connect-the-parts in order to get to a figure in which all the lines are linked, mimicking galaxies and things like that. For every consecutive level (and it's endless, so you can play it casually whenever you want) you'll have some hexagons and have to use the left and right mouse buttons to turn the lines, in order to match them with those encompassed in the neighboring circles.
Of course, after 30 or 40 levels the game will start getting challenging.. but having been made by a single developer, of course, it can also become repetitive - that's why I would have written a mixed/positive review. I really love these games and I played tons of them - albeit not with a galaxy setting I think xD - on Flash websites, and I enjoyed this one.. but it's clear that it has lots of problems and it's an indie casual puzzle game.
Though, it's not an achievement spam game (for some reason, the achievements unlock only after closing the game) and it offers some real (casual) gameplay, with relaxing music and simple graphics.
It will go in progression and save level per level your status, so that instead of a level selection screen you'll rather have a continuous level flow and it will become quite difficult, although never impossible (especially if you played similar games on your mobile phone, or on Kongregate). Someone wrote that it can be not that relaxing for your eyes, and actually the game's a little bit too bright for what concerns the white lines to move (when you click on a hexagon/line it'll get super bright), so just keep an eye on that.
But well, having adjusted some brightness controls, taken as a game that currently sells out as a full price of 0,79€, it really matches its premises. A relaxing and good hexagon/lines connect puzzle game, with random/infinite levels going up in difficulty, that can be boring after some hours but still if you're into this genre it's not to trash away, it surely deserves some time to be played!
▼ Not recommended
11 hrs
The review should be "mixed".
Milky Way Map is a kind of jiggsaw game. The pieces cannot be moved to another place, but can rotate. The pattern is unknown and the player has to figure it out themselves - all lines on jiggsaws have to be connected.
The game is nicely executed, the colors are vivid.
But even if the game looks good at first, there are cons.
On a laptop with lower resolution than 1080p it does not scale properly. The buttons of menu are too big and they are hidden behind the screen.
Secondly, despite Milky Way Map being a small game, it seems it is very demanding for computer. I was able to play The Witcher 3 on the laptop, but it lags on Milky Way. Something is very wrong here.
If the two issues are fixed, the game would be decent.
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