Pacing, ultimately, is The Spectrum Retreat’s undoing. By the end, the picture of what took place before your time at The Spectrum Retreat is as clear as it is placid.Īn intriguing, almost touching story ultimately falls into place, and the orchestra score that accompanies the game is a melancholy delight to the greater whole. The emotional drive at the beginning of the game, those hints of something touching on the edge of perception, give way as the puzzles become more elongated. The Spectrum Retreat’s warm welcome soon fizzles out This holds especially true for the final, lengthy puzzle. Regardless, focus shifts heavily in favor of the puzzles. Little scenes hidden within the puzzles do add to the overall narrative in their own way.
Unfortunately, as the puzzles become more complicated and bigger, the narrative begins to grow thin. Nothing overstays its welcome in this regard. New techniques refresh each floor as well, with each new thing keeping the old formula feeling new. Difficulty between puzzles is very organic as well, requesting a little bit more prowess and investigation with each new puzzle as you learn more other puzzle developers aren’t so Johnny on the spot about this. The concepts are simple: hold or apply the correct color to help you get past an obstacle. It’s the first couple floors that benefit from this, as hints of your past–your family, work, and life–start to paint a picture of who you were.Ībove all else, the thing that The Spectrum Retreat does absolutely right is how it delivers the puzzle rooms. They don’t keep you from progressing, but they don’t pass by without some thought. Once you find the code, you step into a series of puzzles, where you manipulate colored blocks to open up new sections or walk through colored walls.Įarly on, the puzzles have a complicated simplicity to them. You search around for what’s different to find your way into specific rooms locked behind a passcode. Hints of your old life appear randomly in the repetitive hallways in the form of blurred images on the wall.
In the beginning, nothing stands in the way of what feels like a beautiful, glorious slow burn. There are even points where the polite automatons strike fear while fulfilling their tasks. Vividly detailed rooms give an eerie, clean sense of emptiness and unease. Tensions are high early on in The Spectrum Retreat.
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