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Moncage Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET On the face of it, the conceit that lies at the heart of Moncage isn’t a particularly novel one. It’s a puzzle game that’s all about perspective, where changing your view or shifting your position can make the scene in front of you morph into something very different. It’s about reframing – your opinions every bit as much as your view – until, with a little imagination and a touch of trial and error, you realise that you can take those shadows and stony dead-ends and turn them into something else. Something more hopeful. It’s a magical thing, really. Truly brilliant. That said, sometimes it feels like there’s too much going on. Sometimes the scenes in front of you switch so unexpectedly – you’ll know when it happens by a gentle audio cue and a golden glow from the window that’s been updated – that you’ll struggle to keep track of what’s going on no matter how hard you keep on top of it. It’s an on-the-nose metaphor for real life, I guess. While the conceit might not be a unique one, the execution certainly is. Moncage – reportedly a portmanteau of “montage” and “cage”, two terms that can equally be applied to the vehicle through which you play the game – is simple and beautiful and simply beautiful.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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Offering a delightful blend of sleepy storytelling and pleasant puzzling. For the entire experience, you’re in a darkened room – photographs hang in uneven intervals around you – and never leave it. But thanks to the wonder of the cube that sits in the centre of that room, you’ll be whisked off to all manner of curious places; offices and construction sites and a military base, plus a carnival and a lighthouse and a nursery and a young child’s classroom. Each side of the cube – there are only five you can look at, as the bottom face remains concealed from view – offers a different vignette, a deep and curiously personal glimpse into someone’s life. At first, I found myself straining to discover their connections but later, as the story deepens, you realise there aren’t any, really, beyond the faceless, voiceless protagonist your story follows. But though each side of the cage offers ostensibly different views, the sides and corners that touch each other can bleed into and/or affect each other – and that’s where things get really exciting.

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To progress through Moncage’s light-touch story you must look for common themes, shapes, or textures in parallel dioramas to them link together. For instance, one time you might notice that when you turn the cube just so, the striped fabric of an awning in the top scene matches that of the hammock in the square above, or that the industrial pipe lines up oh-so-perfectly beneath a bubbling pot, if only when you zoom into it. If it sounds a little tricky, that’s because it is; some of the solutions are maddeningly opaque, particularly as the super handy highlight feature can be incredibly unhandy at times, stopping you from lining up a complex pattern or even noticing a change in colour. But when you do get it – and you will! – it’s immensely clever, and incredibly satisfying, too. Later, the puzzles get a little more taxing. One requires you to sequentially chain several mini-puzzles together to progress and that took dexterity I rarely possess. Another requires you to manipulate not only the cage but time itself by flicking through the seasons on a wall calendar.Z-Island UNCENSORED

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The trouble with this kind of game, for me anyway, is that the gentle puzzling often solidifies into not-so-gentle frustration, and I’ll admit that sometimes the game’s hands-off telegraphing left me not merely confused but utterly lost, especially when it ushered in new puzzle mechanics without polite introductions. That’s why Moncage’s hint system is so welcomed. Not only does it offer three tiers of clues that incrementally tell you more until, as a last gasp, you can watch a full video tutorial that will flat-out show you what to do, but it’s careful and non-intrusive, and allows you a little time to solve things on your own before coming to your rescue. In fact, everything about Moncage is admirably careful and non-intrusive, and though you might think just watching a small cube might be dull and a tad restrictive – particularly for a game that delivers everything via its visuals – the windows you peer into are packed with colour and detail, and the sound effects, subtle though they are, change depending upon which portal has your attention. Moncage’s biggest faux pax, however, is that its emotive story is essentially told via completely missable collectibles.

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Though I got better at spotting them towards the end and mostly padded out the conclusion of the storyline, I missed a good half dozen through my initial playthrough, which meant I didn’t fully understand what happened to our protagonist in their formative years. Yes, you can complete the game in just three or four hours, and that makes collectible hunting much more palatable, but it’s such a glaring misstep given there’s no other way to understand why the cube is taking us to these seemingly disparate settings. It’s just as well, really, that Moncage’s puzzles are gratifying enough even if you’re unable to fully follow the story. I wish I could tell you I knew right off the bat that the title Moncage is a portmanteau of “montage” and “cage,” but it took me longer than it should have. (I was thinking maybe “monkey cage,” but the game is decidedly free of furry simians.) I fared a little better with the name of the developer: Optillusion. It’s not that the game designers just happen to be really into wordplay. It’s that their unique debut offering is about forming similar connections, only based on shape, color, and perspective rather than linguistics.NICKELODEON KART RACERS 3: SLIME SPEEDWAY

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As you rotate a box containing lovely cel-shaded 3D vignettes, you’ll shift the viewpoint to create a visual continuity between otherwise dissimilar objects in different scenes, and by doing so you advance a wordless story of father and son. With so much emphasis on the innovative puzzle mechanics, the characters and their tale seem to fade into the background, especially if you miss the optional content, but there’s still a lot of enjoyment to be found in the spectacle. As the game opens, you see before you a glass box sitting on a table beneath a spotlight in an otherwise dimly lit room. The view zooms in on it, within which sits a camera. This box, as it turns out, contains the entire game, and the focus never cuts away for the duration of play. During some very brief tutorializing, you’re asked to make your first connection: through one face of the cube you see a suitcase containing multiple children’s books and playthings, including a toy car. As you click and drag to rotate to an adjacent side, you discover the exterior of some kind of factory, in front of which sits a truck connected to a trailer.

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When you rotate the box so that both scenes are in view, you can line up the front of the car to the back of the trailer, forming a dump truck that then backs up and drives towards the factory, transitioning you to the next scene. If you’ve tried the Buried Signal game Gorogoa, Moncage plays with similar ideas of manipulating multiple scenes to make connections, but adds a new dimension—literally. As you click and drag to rotate the box, each of the four sides and the top serve as windows into a different 3D tableau, sometimes set in the same general location, but often scattered across time and space, representing some important place in the characters’ lives: a lighthouse, a military camp, and an amusement park, to name a few. Progression through these scenes involves visually connecting two (or more) objects, buildings, or even landscapes, each from a different scene. Doing so creates an implied physical link, opening up new possibilities. A sliding metal door on the floor may be blocked by boxes in one scene, but combining it with a broken bridge in another location allows it to move freely, giving you access to what’s underneath and helpfully reconnecting the bridge in the process.

I’d like to think that it’s not particularly contestable these days to say that a game can be remarkable even if you don’t lose yourself in it. Case in point: I only rarely and intermittently entered a flow state as I shuffled through the new puzzle game, “Moncage.” But even when I was gripped with frustration because I was stuck on a puzzle, a sense of fascination never left me on account of the game’s dazzling design. “Moncage” is an artful, perspective-shifting puzzle game that reminded me of “Gorogoa.” But where the latter involves sliding around panels to merge scenes from different times and places to advance its narrative, in “Moncage” a similar feat is accomplished by manipulating a cube composed of one overhead and four side faces. Using a gamepad controller, players can rotate the cube with the right thumbstick and move a cursor with the left. With the press of a button, players can click on interactive elements, zooming in on an environmental detail like a desk or a control panel, or pulling on a lever. Each of the five panes of the cube looks onto different scenes that run the gamut from industrial and domestic settings to war-torn landscapes.

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Players are invited to gaze upon these dioramas and search for patterned correspondences that link the disparate environments. By turning the cube just so, scenes can be fused together allowing for, say, a rose on a notebook lying on a desk to merge with the top of a tombstone, creating a new scene where the rose on the tombstone falls to the ground which transforms into a street where the rose is run over by a car. That example constitutes one of the more straightforward solutions in a game that abounds with much stranger puzzles. For example, at one point players are required to light a lamp in one panel by training their attention on an adjacent panel that shows a ruined church, with an exposed roof, flooded by the light of the moon. Solving the puzzle requires zooming in on the altar in the church so that the moon isn’t visible, then rotating the cube to the other panel to align the lamp with a now-visible moon. Solutions like this one struck me as a tad odd … but interesting. Fortunately, “Moncage” features a built-in hint system that can be brought up in the pause menu. It offers three incrementally more specific clues followed by a video walk-through for each puzzle. Although I wish more games would incorporate such a feature.Potionomics

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