#Gorogoa demo walkthrough series#

Zoom out of the Closet Frame and into the painting of the apple.

Rooftop / Boy Frame: Split the Rooftop / Boy Frame so an empty doorway appear.

See how the Empty Door and the Closet match? The boy will leave the closet and step onto the rooftop.

Empty Doorway Frame: Place this tile over the Closet Frame.

You know have a Red Symbol Door and an Empty Doorway Frame. Drag the frame to an empty tile to split the image.

City View Frame: Zoom in on the city until you view a door with the red symbol.

Window View Frame: Zoom out and click right to see the boy in the closet with a bowl.

Drag the city view frame to remove the window frame.

From the offering bowl, zoom out - the frame will split into four tiles.

Click into the bowl until the blue bowl and the five offerings are the only image.

Examine the diagram of the creature -> Click the blue offering bowl under the creature.

It’s just missing a way to truly appreciate the artwork outside of the main narrative, as crucially these are what you will remember most about Gorogoa. The illustrations are truly breath-taking and the way the panels fit together and interact are ingenious. As a puzzle game, it is a unique one that is worthy of the accolades already given to it on iOS. It is not always obvious what is being referred to, and the ambiguous nature of the story offers its own pros and cons. Gorogoa also comes priced at £11.99 which is expensive for the length of the experience you are getting, but it is clear that a lot of love and attention has gone into this game which helps justify the cost a bit better.Īs an experience, Gorogoa offers a melancholic one. There are a couple for speedrunning through things in less than 30 minutes and under 500 moves, and a couple for doing certain things during set-pieces, but overall this is a very easy title to gain completion with. Most of the other achievements in the game are story-related and will be earned just by playing. These drawings are all exceptional, the artist Jason Roberts has an immense talent, so I would love the opportunity to just look through the illustrations without the need to manipulate and move them around. Once you have completed it, there is a chapter select to replay favourite sections, but I think the game really needs a gallery mode to view each individual illustration in its purest form. There is even an achievement for completing the game within 30 minutes which is quite likely to happen on a second playthrough. So, it is disappointing then that even with the vast number of different illustrations to explore, the entire game can be completed with a first playthrough within two hours. Gorogoa features thousands of hand-drawn illustrations some take up a tiny portion of one panel, whilst others take up every space of the four combined. It plays mostly like the start of the game, but towards the end, the demo starts to introduce some of the later game aspects and ideas. It’s interesting to play this after the main game and see where a lot of the ideas originally came from. Included in the Xbox One version of the game is the original 2012 demo too. It isn’t always noticeable and is more often ambient, but when it does kick in, it fits in with what’s going on on-screen and helps the player understand where their attention needs to be. The soundtrack helps keep the immersion going where the hints fail. There are in-game pointers available from the options menu – which are on by default – but using those detracts away from the immersion and ‘puzzle-solving’ aspect. By the third time you will know what is expected of you but you then need to find the object required to manipulate the pictures, and that can take some time. A certain example would be during the fourth chapter where you are required to repeat the same technique three times.

Whilst the puzzles can be tricky, the main difficulty comes from finding the object or view you require. On one side it is enjoyable being able to apply your own narrative to ensure it is more personal to you, but also any sort of direction would have been appreciated.

#Gorogoa demo walkthrough series#

In one instance the boy travels through a series of photos from various war-torn environments that a player may relate more to than another. This was the message I got when playing through the game Gorogoa though contains no speech or text so is purposefully ambiguous in its’ story telling.