Title: Teslagrad
Developer: Rain Games
Publisher(PS4): Square Enix
Release Date(PS4): April 14th, 2015
Game Engine: Unity
Number of Players: Single
Genre: 2D Retro Side Scroller/Shooter/Speed-Running
Youtube Game Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5mjFeU8Eb4
There’s actually four free games for the PS4 this month. The 4th being a game called “Xeodrifter”. Yet for some reason, it refuses to download itself on my PS4. I had to look for it through my computer, as it wouldn’t show up on my PS4.
Whatever. I did find this game. It’s another “weird but interesting” game. Sony seems to be doing a general theme for the past several months, giving us cheap made side-scrollers.
However, this game isn’t one of them. Especially when it has, for the first time (that I’ve seen) EVER in a PS4 game… the ability to change what buttons do what! Not even GTAV has this option! That’s freakin’ cool!
It’s also a game that never got released to the U.S. until April 14th, 2015.
So anyway, this is a 3D sidescroller, with a lot of puzzle solving. You play as a poor, homeless orphan found by this guy and given to this nice woman. The years go by, and then some mean men show up to get you and the woman that took care of you. You emerge from the house to become a player character. You’re about.. ohh.. 10-12 years old (I’m guessing)? You must run away to.. I have no idea where. I guess to get away from the bad men. Here you’re introduced to the game’s basic climbing mechanics.
Eventually you enter a warehouse where you’re introduced to the game’s main mechanics (the puzzle solving part). You eventually also get what I believe to be a Power Glove. L1 causes the glove to turn Blue, and R1 causes the glove to turn Red.
The puzzle parts are quite confusing. See, blue meets with red, and red meets with blue. But blue needs blue to activate… sometimes. It’s explained to the best of my abilities in the video review (more like, shown). This is what I really love about doing these video reviews. It’s better to see than explain.
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And here I feel is a good time for my final review;
Good;
-Able to bind your controller buttons to different things.
-Puzzles aren’t TOO over-complicated. But watching a walkthrough could help.
Bad;
-No story or plot. Who are you, who are these people, and why do these Russian-looking guys want to catch you? Is this some sort of “the days of WWII” thing?
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Final Verdict: Since I’ve been unable to give a solid opinion of all three PS4 games I’ve reviewed, all I can say is this: use the video and decide for yourself. It’s all I can really tell you.