Avolteha

This review is solely based on the graphics which are stunning and resemble Machinarium my favorite game ever. So far, this is the messiest, illogical and chaotic adventure puzzle game I’ve ever played. What a lack of sense, what a disconnection between the graphics and the storyline. Could have been a fantastic game.

Avolteah is a beautiful, interesting little game that is ruined by a player that moves like a snail, puzzles that are timed such that an Olympian couldn’t finish them before, guess what? You have a long, laborious task to go recharge your widget. Items in your inventory aren’t labeled so who knows what the cute little drawings are. The rave reviews for this game have to be from the developers relatives. Not fun.

This game could be great but the developer had an attitude with other reviewers so I won’t explain why only 2 stars.

The game idea is great, the idea of having no language, makes it open to more people. But on the i-pad the directions are not always smooth. Lining up items to interact with, clicking on directions to go different ways, some are moving left right up an down, but some you have to move closer to the front of the play area, or closer to the background. For an i-pad, you have to be right on the interactive zone, or your click is not recognized. You also have to be right next to the item you want to

The graphics are fantastic, very creative and thoughtful, however the instructions don’t make sense, and if you don’t do the exact thing you are supposed to do nothing else happens. The physics need to be refined. We wound up accidentally deleting all our progress because the instructions for how to save games locally or to the cloud don’t make sense at all and I was unwilling to start all over again. There is potential here but it wound up being frustrating. Our 7 year old loved the cha