Separate review
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What is it? Stylish and challenging top-down invisible puzzle game.
Expect to pay 15 USD/13 GBP
Developer Ape tribe game
Publisher sold out
Review date AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia GeForce 2080 Super, 32 GB RAM
multiplayer game? No!
Associate Official website
A sleek and determined invisible puzzle game, separation is to divide cells through the Miami Hotline. Assuming three different roles, you must travel through a series of fast-paced, well-designed levels, slide through the ever-changing cone of maze, and try to uncover a typical tortuous cyberpunk conspiracy in the near future. Disjunction has the style of spades, and its well-designed sneaky scenes can be solved satisfactorily. But it can also be infuriating. The game does not always exert its power, and occasionally seems to actively enjoy the wrong footsteps.
Disjunction begins as a cold detective story. Cybernetically enhanced detective Frank Monroe investigates the possible case of a local community leader who was framed for the murder of a policeman. As with any good cyberpunk story, this simple case will soon develop into something bigger. Two other player characters are introduced-an underground boxer nicknamed Lockjaw, who investigated the cause of his daughter’s death a few weeks ago, and a female hacker named Spider who was reluctant after Lockjaw asked her to crack an encrypted tablet Was involved in the case.
This is a derivative recent science fiction novel, but the story of Disjunction is sharp and fascinating. Developer Ape Tribe Games successfully imitated the calm and detached dialogue of writers such as Gibson, and the mystery it weaves is convincing. In addition, since Disjunction is not the main narrative game, its storytelling system is very powerful. Text UI and branch dialogues are both elegant and responsive, and most dialogues have a range of options, some of which can have a significant impact on the overall outcome of the story.
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From a general presentation point of view, Disjunction performs very well. I’m usually not a fan of pixel art, but it’s hard to complain about Disjunction’s clearly drawn characters and vivid drawing environment. The loading screen-depicting a monorail train traveling along the broken jaw line of a skyscraper, illuminated from behind by a cloud of cream-is particularly gorgeous. At the same time, levels and dialogue scenes are accompanied by a pulsating, buzzing synthetic soundtrack, which perfectly matches the style and tone of the game.
All of these serve as a framework for a neat series of stealth challenges. Your overall goal is always to sneak (or shoot) through a safe place, either to retrieve some evidence, or to talk to an important figure in the New York underworld. It can be a warehouse or penthouse, a clinic or a laboratory. The important thing is that when I say “safe”, I mean it. Every level is tightly locked by patrol guards, surveillance cameras and a series of robotic sentries, from crawling spider robots to exploding Roomba.
Disjunction is not immediately as serious as Hotline Miami, giving you several (relatively) mediated levels to relax yourself. But soon, the mission will fill up enough cones to make Solid Snake tremble in his cardboard box. Most enemies will find you within one second of entering their sight. At this time, you have two choices, either fight or die.
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Separation does not strictly require its invisibility. If you want, you can kick the door and start spitting lead, whether it’s from the spider’s Uzi or Lockjaw’s shotgun, you will enjoy a relatively satisfying time. The weapon has a real impact, and the enemy splashes and smashes in a sufficiently satisfactory way. In other words, this game is obviously a stealth experience.Arrange enemy patrols so that you can only If you are This Precise moment, or use That Specific capabilities.
Disjunction lacks originality, but it makes up for speed and, to a lesser extent, the challenge.
Speaking of this, each character has a series of skills to help them navigate the strict security measures of the level. For example, the spider’s holographic projector can distract the enemy, or Monroe’s smoke bomb can let him pass through an invisible area. . They are all useful abilities, but nothing is particularly radical or creative. In terms of enemy or environmental manipulation, don’t expect Deus Ex’s hit the wall or Dishonored 2’s Domino.
Disjunction lacks originality, but it makes up for speed and, to a lesser extent, the challenge. Invisibility is tightly entangled, requiring precise movements and quick responses. Failure is often sudden and complete. You will often return to the game before the last running character dies. Compared to most stealth games that tend to emphasize planning and caution, this is a refreshing change in rhythm. After playing Disjunction for a few hours, you will find yourself moving in the level instinctively. Your instinct will tell you what to hide behind, when to get the key card or rush towards the door.
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This kind of fast stealth is undoubtedly the most powerful place of Disjunction. Unfortunately, this is not always the case with games. One of the biggest problems in Disjunction is the camera, which is fixed at a low altitude above the character, preventing you from seeing the wider layout of the level. Most of my failures were not because of misjudgment of my actions, but because I couldn’t see the other side of the room at all, so I couldn’t determine the current location of other sentries.
In addition to this, there are other issues that will unnecessarily frustrate the sports shoes of the game. Most rooms on the first floor are separated by short corridors, which seem to be designed as a breathing point for you to plan your next move. But the guard frustum often strays into these spaces, forcing you to move to the next room before you are ready. The checkpoint preservation system is also inconsistent. In some levels, the rhythm of the checkpoints is uniform, while other levels force you to complete lengthy sneak sequences, which are not fun to repeat.
Finally, sometimes Disjunction just likes to fuck with you. In a level, you need to sneak into the mafia leader’s luxurious penthouse. One of the rooms is guarded by two spider robots. Each spider robot has four cones that rotate around its central axis. After cursing robots like Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse for 20 minutes, I finally got rid of them, but was immediately scorched by the rotating laser turret hidden on the other side of the door. Had it not been for me to be busy summoning Neptune from the depths and watery revenge on the man who put the damn laser turret there, I might have been impressed by its boldness.
Unfortunately, Disjunction occasionally changes from challenge to unfair, lacking a certain degree of clarity about the rules of the world, because otherwise it is a cleverly designed and beneficial invisible puzzle game. It is not a particularly ambitious or exciting original, but it is still a respectable debut by developer Ape Tribe Games.
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