#Darq switch review full#
Thankfully, this complete edition extends the experience with two full DLC packages of puzzles and mysteries.'DARQ' is the award-winning game that tells Lloyd's story, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid nightmare. I finished in under five hours, since there are only six chapters. Your skill level with puzzle games will most likely determine how long it takes you to finish DARQ. It’s cool that I was able to understand the emotion of the game and repetitiveness of Lloyd’s struggles even without obvious indicators of what he’s feeling. However, even without Lloyd explaining his feelings, I did feel bad for him as he went through nightmare after nightmare, and jump-scare after jump-scare without a break. The jump-scares did get me a couple of times, and the suspense builds nicely, but I never found myself genuinely worried or frightened throughout the game. I was also somewhat disappointed that DARQ wasn’t as scary as I hoped it would be. I thought these would give some sort of story or explanation on what’s happening, but I couldn’t find any option to read them. Adding on to that, each level had hidden papers called Dream Journals. There wasn’t any real story, and most of the game was up to your interpretation. While DARQ does have a lot of good qualities, I also found it quite confusing at times. The graphics could have been a bit cleaner, however, as there were a couple times when the monsters looked like they were floating when they were supposed to be walking, and they also could’ve moved more smoothly. Lloyd himself would fit right into any number of Burton’s movies. The monsters you run into (or, more accurately, try to not run into) remind me of Tim Burton’s art style. The puzzles are mostly physics-based, requiring you to play with gravity and rotating rooms to reach your goals. He can walk around and use wheels and levers to change rooms, and it’s quite fascinating to watch.Īnything you can interact with lights up, so you aren’t really able to miss anything, which is helpful. The different chapters each have a new setting, so exploring each different area was fun. Since it is a horror game, the visuals are creepy and interesting to look at, especially because of the way Lloyd gets around. I thought the art style of this game was super cool. I had to use the D-pad after trying multiple times and failing.
For example, in one time-limited maze, the control stick wasn’t very accurate. They’re pretty basic and easy, but I did have trouble with them in some of the puzzles.
Because the game gives you no instructions and no dialogue, it can be confusing at first to get started, but the controls are explained in the settings if you need help figuring them out. As you lay in bed, it looks as if Lloyd’s body ascends into his dream world, which starts out as an empty room. When first starting DARQ, you appear in a house in which your only option is to sleep. These puzzles start off pretty simple, and of course get harder as the game progresses. Your objective is to help him wake up by exploring his dreams and solving puzzles. In the game DARQ, you follow a young boy named Lloyd who seems trapped in a nightmare loop.
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