Valley of the Architects is a beautiful-looking puzzler that guarantees elevator-based conundrums that make you suppose, alongside bringing a fascinating narrative. That is a difficult pairing to drag off, so we handed the sport over to our App Military to see in the event that they imagine it achieved this lofty objective.
Here is what they stated:
Torbjörn Kämblad
When trying on the screenshots for Valley of the Architects, I acquired the impression of a puzzler akin to Monument Valley. This was, nevertheless, removed from the reality as soon as I acquired to play the sport. The Valley of the Architects is mainly an elevator puzzler the place you progress the protagonist from level A to level B. Positive, there are lots of obstacles in the way in which, comparable to stoppers, and elevators not shifting on the similar tempo. Nonetheless, it’s not too removed from one other elevator puzzle sport I acquired to strive not too way back – Going Up. And Going Up is a extra centered expertise, in my view.
As puzzlers go, The Valley will not be unhealthy and has nice presentation and fairly an elaborate story in comparison with most within the style. It bends the thoughts and forces lots of trial and error. One factor value mentioning is that I benefit from the choice to play in both panorama or portrait orientation.
Jim Linford
From what I’ve performed, I favored the look of the degrees. I wasn’t positive what to anticipate, however I came upon it was an elevator puzzler. On my telephone, the graphics look nice, and the sport has lots of care given to it. I’m not so good with logic puzzles or puzzles normally. I needed to do a little bit of trial and error. Sadly, haven’t had time to dive in additional.
Mark Abukoff
A pleasant, difficult elevator puzzler with a number of totally different choices and obstacles. The story is nice, however what I particularly take pleasure in is how actual the buildings feel and appear. Additionally, the power to reset, repair your error, and take a look at once more. As is all the time the case, as you progress, the instruments/obstacles ramp up the problem, but it surely’s undoubtedly a logic/engineering puzzler that I loved. Controls labored fairly nicely. I favored having the ability to zoom out and in, and it’s all the time good when you possibly can swap from portrait to panorama mode. General, an excellent sport. Straightforward advice.
Oksana Ryan
That is an elevator puzzler that units out to problem you from the start. The concept is to maneuver Liz by way of her journey to seek out the misplaced secret of the architect. The gameplay is easy, and there’s a good tutorial to get you began. The target is to make your approach throughout the display screen to the exit by utilizing elevators and blocking or permitting them to cease them on the proper place to attain your objective, which I discovered difficult at instances however not insurmountable. Nonetheless, even if there was a journey to be travelled, after some time, the challenges started to really feel a little bit repetitive. Nonetheless, on the entire, I’d advocate it for puzzle lovers.
Robert Maines
The Valley of the Architects is a puzzle sport whose story centres on Liz’s journey in Africa to uncover the secrets and techniques of a Misplaced Architect. The story progresses by fixing a sequence of puzzles that include elevators that must be organized so Liz can stroll to the exit. You don’t have any management over Liz when you hit the Go button, get it improper, and you have to reset and take a look at once more. Issues begin off easy sufficient, however as directional blockers and teleports are launched, the problem ramps up.
The graphics and sound do the job with out being excellent. The tutorials are an awesome assist, and I used to be quickly engrossed in fixing the degrees. I want the assistance system was much less restricted, however I nonetheless loved taking part in this puzzler.
Bruno Ramalho
I began to play this sport on an iPad in panorama mode, and I favored it very a lot, the place you possibly can see the panorama across the buildings (and relying in your {hardware}, you possibly can go into settings and improve your graphics settings to max to make it look even higher). However then I switched to my iPhone, the place the panorama mode makes every part look so very small that I went for portrait mode, and actually like what the builders did right here, they zoom into the constructing itself, and every part appears to be like fairly large and detailed, very consumer pleasant (you possibly can alter the zoom together with your fingers in case you like).
Now, in regards to the sport, this can be a very handsome puzzler, with a fascinating story accompanying it, being narrated by our character in her pursuit of understanding this well-known architect, who was in some way a delusion and a thriller. On this sport, you’ve these buildings with lots of elevators and flooring, and you have to transfer an individual from level A to level B. For this, you have to sync the motion of the elevators and alter some extra components on display screen (like stoppers and others) in order that every part is in sync and your character walks proper to the tip with out going in opposition to a wall.
That is primarily a counting numbers sport, the place you really want to depend the variety of strikes an elevator makes so you possibly can sync it with the motion of the participant and the opposite elevators. The tutorial may be very nicely made and explains every part fairly nicely with easy challenges.
After which it slowly presents you with stoppers and different totally different components with totally different mechanics, and also you perceive that there are a number of individuals to succeed in a particular colored door, and even the identical door, which makes it much more difficult. There may be an choice in settings that permits you to allow the variety of strikes for every elevator, which is sort of useful. All in all, a really good sport that acquired me hooked, making an attempt to resolve problem after problem.
Sangeet Shukla
The Valley of the Architects will not be your common puzzle sport, even at stage 1, I discovered it to make glorious use of my mind. There are ray-tracing vibes on the telephone display screen because of graphics. The stoppers, elevators, and varied gaps and totally different buildings of every elevator wall should all be timed accurately. To grasp how every merchandise in a given stage works and end the extent, we are able to velocity issues up and down. All in all, it is an especially difficult puzzler.
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