Semblance will reshape your platform-puzzle expectations

Semblance will reshape your platform-puzzle expectations

7 years ago
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https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/25/17610440/semblance-review-windows-pc-nintendo-switch-mac-os-x

Puzzle-platformers like Portal and Limbo are meticulously crafted worlds that pull players through choreographed steps and jumps. Semblance, out now on Mac, Nintendo Switch and Windows PC, makes a genuine effort to subvert this norm, offering up something both liberal with player choice and original in concept.

It stars a blob who inhabits a morph-able world of platforms, pits and puzzles. The blob can run and jump, but its main ability is throwing itself at walls, floors and ceilings, to dent and shape them. The objective is not to traverse an established world, but to shape and create. It’s more about making platforms than besting them.