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The game didn’t periodically save my progress, nor did it save my progress after completing a puzzle. Meaning I had to play the tedius ferris-wheel and guitar puzzles again. I encountered one serious problem, the crashed and, when I relaunched it, I found myself two puzzles back from where I was when I had started playing. I have no idea how the binary punchcard puzzle is supposed to work - and I used to be a programmer (and used punchcards a long time ago). There is a help manual, where you have to figure out which page to turn to by solving a math problem, but it just gives you the solution.

There are no hints or clues on what you are supposed to do if you get stuck. The puzzles range from easy to practically impossible. The story is weak and pretty much hides in the background. This is a visually intriguing game based on an unusual concept and well-designed. (A few puzzles, like the Spinning House, are really cool.) I also very much appreciated the finishing touches on this game, which are the lovely 2D animated sequences at the start and finish. The difference here is that I plain lost patience with Lumino City’s puzzles: like everything else in this game, they LOOK great, but I found most (not all) of them unoriginal, arbitrary and tedious, and eventually resorted to a walk-through to get past many of them to where Lumino City really shines, which is the visuals and design. Lumino City and Machinarium have fairly similar approaches to the puzzles and are more challenging than Monument Valley. Your mileage may vary.) The obvious comparisons with this game are Machinarium and Monument Valley, which are both extremely accomplished animated stories interrupted by puzzles.

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(Leaving full screen mode worked around my problem. To create the environment, a ten foot high model. Discover gardens in the sky, towers marooned high on an immense waterwheel, and houses dug precariously into cliffs. By exploring the city, and using your ingenuity piece together all sorts of puzzling mechanisms to help the people who live in its unique world.

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I did encounter some performance problems when running full screen on a Windows Pro that’s a few years old. Lumino City - Lumino City is a BAFTA award-winning handmade puzzle adventure game. By any reasonable standard, this game is an amazing accomplishment and is utterly worth experiencing.