To select the proper block, you have to rotate Endroi and then tap Z. The companion cube would never let you treat it this way.Ĭubes can be pulled only once and only in straight lines. Enemies range from relatively benign, brainless wanderers to stationary turrets that flood your screen with bullets and homing projectiles. Even without fusing, though, pulled cubes can block enemy attacks, eliminate obstacles, or destroy baddies. These blocks can also be combined to form things like barriers and offensive turrets. From those two simple ideas come a mind-boggling number of complex scenarios.Įach cube has certain properties some are useful for offense, and others for defense. Your set of tools remains limited throughout your only methods of interacting with the world are movement and the ability to pull certain objects toward you. The first few missions consist of deceptively simple tutorials, but the timing, precision, and forethought necessary to be successful scales up exponentially.
Unfortunately for you, Endroi's world is anything but friendly. Instead, Endroi's motivations amount to little more than the joy of exploration. He has been built with the ability to target and pull specific kinds of cubes, and his motivations aren't loaded down with the weight of excessive postmodernity or even the classic "rescue the princess" narrative. You play as Endroi, a robotic drone who seems to take strange delight in completing puzzles and frustrating the plans of his creators in a comically overblown fashion. Sometimes, you must destroy the things you love.Ĭubetractor's core is based on attracting cubes, and the subtleties and technical execution challenges that surround the strange premise are the meat of this adventure. Cubetractor fits nicely under the label of modern games designed with sentimentality in mind, but with that pining focus the game brings creative mechanics and difficult puzzles that are hidden behind a veneer of unassuming innocence. Super Meat Boy, Fez, and even Braid focus on the kinds of tropes and mechanics common in the days of Sonic and Mario. I look forward to future titles they might have in the works and I recommend this title for people who like fast-paced puzzles.During the past few years, developers have twisted the conventions of classic games to make unique, exciting new games. This is a nice initial offering from the duo at Ludo Games. In terms of cons, the graphics options are non-existent, the music is not to my taste, and if you hit a block from behind while following it you will take damage. The mechanics are fun and some of the puzzles really get your pulse pumping as you have to dodge not only the cubes that you send in motion, but also bullets from enemy towers, physical enemies who will aggro you if you get too close, and obstacles like water and mountains. In terms of pros, the story is everything in this game.
The game is all about creating towers and striking enemies with moving cubes as you progress down the path toward freedom. When not part of a tower, they will regenerate after a few seconds. Once in motion, the blocks continue until they strike something causing damage, merge with another moving block to form a tower, or leave the screen. You move your robot around the board and use the space bar to attract blocks toward your position. Meanwhile, the robots who built you have no choice but to sit back and hope that you accidentally hit yourself in the face with a cube. You move your robot The story on this one is a blast! Cubetractor is an 8-bit inspired puzzle game where you play as a rogue robot who makes a break for freedom during the course of taking your "exams". The story on this one is a blast! Cubetractor is an 8-bit inspired puzzle game where you play as a rogue robot who makes a break for freedom during the course of taking your "exams".
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