{"id":21232,"date":"2021-05-24T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21232"},"modified":"2021-05-24T00:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T00:33:12","slug":"relicta-switch-ps4-xbox-one-stadia-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/24\/relicta-switch-ps4-xbox-one-stadia-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Relicta (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Stadia, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A few centuries in the future and we\u2019ve got terraforming biome bases on the moon.\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m assuming it\u2019s the moon, they call it \u201cLuna\u201d in the game so it could be a moon on another fictional planet.\u00a0 Anyway, in Relicta you play as a scientist on one of these bases, and she\u2019s testing a new pair of gloves that have the power to manipulate gravity and magnetism on nearby objects.\u00a0 When her daughter comes to visit and a freak accident puts her and other members of the crew in danger, it\u2019s up to the scientist to use the special gloves to solve puzzles to save the day.\u00a0 Relicta is a 3-D first person puzzler available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

You view the action in a first person perspective, and can see both gloved hands at all times, as well as a reticule in the center of the screen.\u00a0 You\u2019ll move around with the L stick, and point in the direction you want to face with the R stick.\u00a0 Explore the many doors and shuttles in the space station to find your next destination, which is usually a biome where you\u2019ll solve a few puzzles.\u00a0 These biomes replicate natural settings like forests, snowy mountains, etc.\u00a0 The puzzles you\u2019ll solve involve picking up blocks with the anti-gravity gloves, and placing them on switches so you can open force fields to move onto the next puzzle.\u00a0 Sometimes you can place blocks on stations and be able to teleport them to other locations.\u00a0 Aside from picking up boxes, you can press the L and R trigger buttons to change the blocks\u2019 polarity, and the L and R shoulder buttons will cause the blocks to not be affected by gravity.\u00a0 You\u2019ll use all these skills in tandem to do things like repel blocks and send them far away without friction getting in the way.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit like Portal, except without the witty humor and storytelling.<\/p>\n

The graphics in the game are amazing, but then, I don\u2019t play too many realistic looking games, but mostly cartoony ones, so maybe the visuals aren\u2019t as good as what I think they are.\u00a0 But I do think they look great.\u00a0 Only problem is the difficulty ramps up super quick, and there is no hint system or anything.\u00a0 They give you some instructions on how things work, but there are some things I think they could\u2019ve done better explaining.\u00a0 Like they tell you that blocks are red or blue depending on their magnetic polarity, but they don\u2019t tell you that the center of the blocks spin around when set with anti-gravity, nor do they tell you the blocks revert their status when you pick them up.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a bad game, it\u2019s just that the difficulty spike kept me from staying interested.\u00a0 But if you like Portal style puzzlers and want more of a challenge, you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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Relicta is rated M for Mature with ESRB descriptors of Drug Reference and Strong Language.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really notice any drug references, but boy these scientists in the game talk like sailors!\u00a0 They toss the f-bomb around every other sentence!\u00a0 I know that when you are out in space and in danger, you\u2019re not going to say, \u201cOh golly gee wilikers, I\u2019m running out of oxygen and that shucky-darn asteroid is going to hit us!\u201d\u00a0 But I think all that cursing in the game is really unnecessary.\u00a0 If they cut it out of the game, I bet it would\u2019ve gotten a lower ESRB rating.\u00a0 I just don\u2019t like it when people curse a lot.\u00a0 Because of this and the high challenge level, this game is best for older players.\u00a0 It definitely has a more \u201cmature PC game\u201d feel to it.\u00a0 I bet it would make a good VR title, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few centuries in the future and we\u2019ve got terraforming biome bases on the moon.\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m assuming it\u2019s the moon, they call it \u201cLuna\u201d in the game so it could be a moon on another fictional planet.\u00a0 Anyway, in Relicta you play as a scientist on one of these bases, and she\u2019s testing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21297,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21232\/revisions\/21297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}