Alt254 is a minimalistic game where you play as a single pixel, your goal is to explore this world and find colored keys to open more doors and advance the story. It’s classed as an adventure game but for me, it felt and played more like a puzzle game. I spent more time moving blocks to make pathways or open doors than actually fighting which suited me as fighting is a case of dashing into red blocks and avoiding their attacks, this tool a long time and felt so random it lacked any satisfaction. I was looking forward to this game so much and it after just an hour I felt disappointed as it was not near what I expected, I expected a more interactive world, more combat, and a lot more puzzle variety. What I did get was puzzles and key collecting with a bit of combat. I still love how this game looks and the idea behind it but it needs more content, more variety, and generally just push it forward. I won’t straight-up hate it as every now and then I am more than happy to sit down and play an hour or two of it no problem. Overall I found Alt254 dared to be different, I love its style and presentation but the content became stale and repetitive and never took risks.

À condition de savoir où l'on met les pieds, Alt254 est une aventure singulière, qui pourra offrir quelques heures de véritable réflexion aux joueurs qui préfèrent l'évocation au photo-réalisme. Ce jeu rétro jusqu'au-boutiste parvient malgré sa limitation graphique de 21x26 pixels à donner la sensation d'explorer un univers cohérent, doté de ses propres codes, qu'il faudra malheureusement apprendre à l'ancienne, c'est à dire... à la dure. Ceux qui parviendront à passer par-dessus un début difficile passeront alors quelques sympathiques heures à résoudre les nombreuses énigmes de cette synthèse minimaliste entre Adventure et The Legend of Zelda.

Alt254 es una primera propuesta muy interesante, combina bien dos géneros como son la exploración y los puzzles, pero se pierde un poco queriendo introducir mecánicas de más - hecho que se aprecia cuando los creadores describen el juego como aventura de acción. Funciona mucho mejor como mundo abierto para descubrir e imaginar, enigmático y poco amable, que como juego de acción, donde las limitaciones técnicas (voluntarias) lastran las posibilidades de hacer algo más complejo. Podemos pasar unas horas bastante entretenidas si conseguimos que estas mecánicas no nos molesten, pero quizás requiere más de lo necesario que echemos mano de nuestra voluntad para apartar las carencias y llegar al final.

“I wouldn’t say Alt254 is a bad game, but it definitely is a boring one: Traversing through gigantic areas with no indication of what to do, without save points and surrounded by enemies is not particularly fun with its execution. While a game like Dark Souls, which tells a story through its gameplay, may be able to make this system work, a game like Alt254, with its incredibly shallow combat and mechanics in general, doesn’t. Having minimalistic graphics only makes everything much more underwhelming as well; beating hordes of identical red squares or talking to blue tetrahedrons does nothing for the player’s imagination.”

Za sam kraj priznaću da sam naišao na par puzli koje su mi se svidele i koje su dobro dizajnirane, i da iza obilja problema mogu da se naÄ‘u tragovi dobre igre. MeÄ‘utim, činjenica da su developeri mislili da minimalizam znači ‘’nećemo ništa da objasnimo i magično ćemo dobiti igru sa dubokom i kreativnom pričom’’, i još da je u redu da na nju nalepe cenu od 10€, je prilično suluda. Postoje mnogo bolje i kreativnije puzzle igre koje možete da pronaÄ‘ete na brojnim flash browser game sajtovima, koje su pritom i besplatne.

Recomendaría Alt254 sólo por el gran trabajo realizado para construir una aventura muy sólida partiendo de una base tan minimalista. A base de píxeles y colores construye un videojuego de exploración, divertido y muy interesante. Su único problema es que es demasiado fácil desorientarse y un jugador que no tenga demasiada paciencia puede terminar abandonándolo, como ha sido mi caso.

In summary, Alt254 was/is well worth that chance, and I’d encourage you to have a look for yourself if you want something different and used to squinting at small things.