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Movement is a bit awkward; you don’t walk the world easily. Often you will find yourself fiddling with the camera trying to see where you are going. Or trying to locate the item you are looking for on a shelf or in a corner. It does not make the game unbearable in any way and very soon you will get carried away. It’s just embarrassing. And this is something that will annoy modern gamers.
As with many older games, Anachronox doesn’t hold your hand, which means that sometimes simple things, like using a Time Minder, can take a while. Of course, everyone knows what a Time Minder is, so Ion Storm (developers of Anachronox) didn’t feel the need to offer guidance here.
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Another useful information would have been to mention that you can climb some walls, because they are not walls at all, just paths that go up. The direction of gravity on Anachronox is controlled and city blocks can move like a Rubik’s cube, which is great, but it makes you wish you had a map. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to find your way around such a place without Google Maps? No need to imagine, you can try it in the game.
It would have been a good idea to give your technologically advanced paper plane flight secretary a map. If you don’t want to spend years wandering the streets, listen to people giving you directions. There are many sayings about travel as part of the fun and, at times, more important than the destination. But when you’re wondering for the same gray hallways for a while, you really just want to get to where you’re going.
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