Unlock!

Just played the Third Scenario in Unlock… The Curse on Camelot… I ran into a lot of bugs…the app locked up multiple times requiring a restart and the app required voice recognition that didn’t work throughout the whole scenario. The app has ways to work around it …which makes me think they anticipated voice recognition problems. However one of the last puzzles has no workaround … so we weren’t able to finish it. This unlock box set has had the most bugs yet of all unlock sets. For reference I was playing on an Iphone15. Overall these are good…so I can’t tank the app rating … because of flaws in the most recent boxes that have been released. The bugs unfortunately are causing frustration in the more recent sets making these less enjoyable to play.

I hate saying that this game is just kind of garbage … obviously a lot of love and care went into his. The illustrations are lovely. And someone really has the beginnings of some good ideas. And I spent hard-earned money, so yeah, I’d like this to not be bad. Unfortunately, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. For starters, the whole process of the game is too complex. Or maybe ‘hard to follow’ would be more correct. It seems obvious to me that the designers of this game thought they had a bunch of great ideas; they went nuts pumping it full of stuff that is just too clever by half. I’m not even talking about the actual ‘escape room’ part. Just figuring out which cards get turned over and when is too much. The rules are a logic puzzle in and of themselves, and not the fun kind. We’re going to give this another go tomorrow night. But, if I’m being honest, it sounds more like drudgery than fun. But I spent hard-earned money, so we have to try.

When I first played Unlock! it was kinda hard and didn’t make sense. They wanted you to combine stuff that didn’t make sense together. Also the machines wanted me to do things that I was doing and they didn’t work that well. The last bad thing was that it didn’t tell you that you needed sound so I got stuck on one part because I needed to do it correctly. It was a good bonding experience and a good idea. After I turned my sound on though the sound worked fine. I like that they come in packs of three so you can get another pack before you do all three that you have. I did it on my iPad and had no problems with sound. I think they’re hints are good. Also you can do it whenever. So a good idea but needs work.