However, you will need to ask for a lot of hints, considering how cryptic Summertime Madness feels at times. If you’re playing the game on Explorer mode, where there’s no time limit, that’s not a hassle, but that makes the experience even less fun than it is. Whenever you ask for a hint by looking at a magical clock, you lose fifteen minutes out of your remaining time limit. Here’s the thing: there is a hint system, but just like anything featuring a deal with totally-not-the-Devil-I-swear, there’s a caveat. This is a game all about racing against the clock in order to get to the final puzzle before an arbitrary time limit expires, after all. When you play the game for the first time, it feels like nothing makes sense at all, and I do think this was intentional. You do one thing in order to unlock another completely unrelated thing just so you can unlock a brand new area where you have to do another thing.
#Summertime madness painting prague series
The game is comprised of a series of puzzles that, sadly, feel beyond cryptic at times. Summertime Madness felt like playing a pretty escape the room game set in an open area. The game starts off with an introductory cutscene featuring some excellent voice acting. The problem lies on the execution of said puzzle-solving gameplay loop. The basis for a good puzzle adventure is all featured in here.
Your character also moves insanely fast for a game in said genre, which was a shocking and pleasing revelation. Summertime Madness is a first-person walking sim, first and foremost, but it does feature pretty painting-like visuals and a soothing soundtrack. I even liked the overall presentation and gameplay. I like that, there’s nothing bad with it at all in this regard. Got it, nice premise, digestible reason for the gameplay to exist, stakes at play. He now has a few hours to escape it, or else his soul will get stuck inside this alternate canvas dimension forever. One day, a mysterious man (totally not the Devil, I swear) offers the painter a chance to escape this reality by transporting his soul into one of his paintings. The uglier the war gets, the more he paints. You control a depressed artist who wants to escape the horrors of war. The game is set in Prague during World War II. Summertime Madness starts off with a fully voiced intro cutscene detailing its plot. Not exactly a next-gen title when it comes to visuals, but still pretty.
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