![]() ![]() It’s about that moment where it clicks into place. It’s puzzles are never so tricky that they seem unfair. Superliminal’s goal is to make you the player feel smart and clever. “Perception is….”Įven in these early stages, there was always a joy in figuring out the puzzle solutions. But pretty soon, you’ll break beyond the boundaries-both figuratively and literally-and fall ever deeper into this dream state where anything is possible. A tiny wedge of cheese becomes an enormous ramp. ![]() ![]() A large object becomes small enough to pull through a tiny gap. The earliest puzzles are about shifting the size of objects based on how you see them. These tests serve as the building blocks for understanding how Superliminal wants you to think, literally and figuratively altering your perspective in order to solve a number of puzzles. A disembodied and mildly sinister AI voice, very obviously emulating Portal’s GLaDOS, begins guiding you through a series of preliminary tests. Sometimes it’s about sheer execution of concept, and Superliminal thinks outside the box before diving back into the box, and then cloning the box within the box and thinking outside of both of them while firmly within a third you didn’t even realize exists. Not that one needs precision controls in a game like this, but it did make jumping on objects and reaching ledges sometimes more of a hassle than it should have been. My first reaction on loading it up was that it looked and felt a bit “budget.” The visuals are exceptionally simplistic, the controls a bit floaty and imprecise. Cue the console release, where Superliminal’s mind-bending, perception-altering puzzler finally comes to the living room. But being a console gamer, I didn’t bother looking into it much further. At the time, I remember seeing intriguing videos of the game’s signature “size is perspective” mechanic, where players resized objects based on their perspective. Superliminal first released for PC back in November 2019. It is as much within those categorical boxes as it is without. A puzzle game that is about the adventure more than the puzzles, about how the player comes to the solutions more than the solutions themselves, Superliminal exists somewhere between Portal, The Witness, and an MC Escher painting, and yet is wholly unbound to being defined by those limitations. Superliminal is never quite what you think it is, and in that, it’s always exactly what it’s trying to be. Every time I think I’ve got Superliminal pegged, every time I think I’ve figured it out, it takes another left turn and defies my expectations. A smile creeps over my face and I shake my head, grinning. Sorry that there isn't more detail, I'm just going from memory.“Son of a bitch…” I mutter too loudly under my breath for the 20th time. If you ignore that chess piece, you can walk down the rest of that corridor and there's a fire extinguisher and/or fire alarm. One I had missed originally was at the point early on where you pick up a chess piece but actually pull out part of the floor and fall through. In one room in particular in this bit, you can turn around and there's a corridor that you can walk down which is all behind the direction you're supposed to go. Particularly on the part where you pick up/drop a cube and it changes the room you're in. Some of the fire alarms and fire extinguishers I had missed also were towards the end of the game. Most of the ones I had missed on the first and second runs were just from not checking behind me. This was the last one I was missing.įor the fire extinguishers, the only thing I can recommend is to turn around every time you walk through a door. In this room, if you walk all the way down the wall to where the floor would be, there is a fire alarm. There's a cube on the wall but when you get into the right perspective, you fall down the side down to the next part (Sorry, that's the best way from memory I can describe it). The fire alarm I was missing was in the room where you go in from the ceiling and you're walking around one of the walls. The main one I had was Level 7 where I was missing both a fire extinguisher and a fire alarm. From the Level Select screen, levels where you are missing fire extinguishers or fire alarms will have grey icons for whichever you're missing, so that might help you narrow it down.įor me, I had initially missed quite a few on Level 1 and 2 but I think this is just because I was occasionally randomly doing it. ![]()
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