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In the world, anything that goes against universal morality will certainly not bring a good ending. There have been many works born from imagination mentioning remedies, ways to make people live forever, never get old, stay young forever, get rid of the sufferings of the cycle of birth, life and birth. Destruction, but it is the desire to own those things that are always the grave for not only those who are greedy for life and fear of death, those who desire power but also sow calamity for the whole civilization.
The happiness rate of its people determines the survival of a civilization, but perhaps for the people of Ez’rat Qin, happiness alone is not everything. The rulers in the land of Ez’rat Qin have found a herb that can reverse death, cure all diseases and help the country develop more and more prosperous. However, the price to pay after that happened.
That’s the setting of Aporia: Beyond the Valley – an adventure/puzzle title from the development team Investigate North, which gained attention with its heavy documentary/detective work Cloud Chamber in 2014. Other With Cloud Chamber, Aporia: Beyond the Valley chooses a more accessible direction for exploring the adventure/puzzle-oriented genre, which is a genre that is “started” by many independent developers.
Following a character who wakes up from a slumber of hundreds of years, join Biareview to Aporia: Beyond the Valley to discover the mysteries behind the demise of a great civilization called Ez’rat Qin.
Right from the first minutes of awakening, Aporia: Beyond the Valley has given players a familiar experience similar to The Witness or the famous Myst monument with a first-person perspective, vague about a world mysteries surround me.
Aporia: Beyond the Valley has successfully created a great Ez’rat Qin of the past with massive works. Top of the glory, fallen into oblivion, buried by the curse due to the mistakes made by this civilization. Ez’rat Quin appears majestically, full of the impression of antiquity but still interwoven with a strange stillness, like carrying a melancholy waiting for players to discover.
The art of light art in the graphics of Aporia: Beyond the Valley is fully utilized by the game makers at Investigate North, providing enchanting frames that are easy for gamers to explore reluctant to embark on the journey. The array of light and dark paintings is harmoniously combined. It leads players to take the first steps when facing the fear ahead; just overcome it; there will always be beautiful things waiting for you to play.
How to build the world in Aporia: Beyond the Valley is divided into two very clear stages. The first phase is quite linear, but it is an important step for the player to shape his role in the adventure. While the second phase gives the player greater freedom to explore, that is what makes this journey so memorable. Ez’rat Qin always has many cleverly hidden secrets in that land, but each time it discovers something, it always makes the writer feel surprised by the close connection. Ez’rat Qin’s cultural and meaningful relationships are also clearly depicted.
It is that ingenious connection that the player’s journey is sometimes linear, sometimes free. Still, the writer has never lost his direction despite the illusoriness in the increasingly high context, more and more mysteries. And the deadly charm from invisible curses like pressing on the player an indescribable pressure. That’s when the horror of Aporia: Beyond the Valley is portrayed interestingly, no exaggeration; it is slightly better than the horror games on the market today.
The fear surrounding players in Aporia: Beyond the Valley is not permanent like a true horror game; it haunts players through messages, gentle “reminders” of “something” around here, while you can’t back down. Combined with a beautiful, charming but chilling spooky environment, somewhere emitting sighs to howling sometimes makes players dumbfounded in a certain sequence. That fear does not necessarily make us jump, startle, but it gradually ingrains in the player’s mind that: “I know it’s you, you are following me, step by step, but what is your purpose? ?” It all has its reasons, which are messages that the end of the game players will surely not be surprised when “enlightened.”
For many people, the horror element of Aporia: Beyond the Valley can be a bit shallow because it doesn’t exist much, mainly playing the role of creating an environment. But overall, the horror element of the game is fully conveyed, enough to highlight and make players pay more attention to what they will discover in the next stage.
The core thing that makes a puzzle game attractive, of course, must be tough puzzles. Compared to many puzzle games simplified today, Aporia: Beyond the Valley continues to make the writer smile in satisfaction when faced with its interesting dilemmas.
The puzzles in Aporia: Beyond the Valley are not too many, in sufficient quantity, but the quality is careful. Unlike The Witness with only one puzzle type, the puzzles in Aporia: Beyond the Valley have a wealth of applied knowledge spread across many different fields and are also very historical: from astrology and astronomical skills, dexterity in steps, the ability to observe closely and explore collecting, or requires a good memory for a short time to take cues from the environment.
Many are quite familiar to players among those puzzles because it was originally a lesson in elementary school. Still, even senior heads can’t be solved when shown in the game if you’re in a hurry. Patience, perseverance, and thoroughness in recognition are the factors highlighted in Aporia: Beyond the Valley. If you do not master that, you will still complete Aporia: Beyond the Valley but lose 50% of the fun it contains.
Not exactly a puzzle, the plot of Aporia: Beyond the Valley can be seen as a real puzzle because its meaning and development also need to be observed and pondered a bit.
Aporia: Beyond the Valley chooses to show the plot nicely when it doesn’t use any leading words or lines; it depends on the player’s observance during the adventure and patience when standing in front of a big door. Every happening is conveyed like a puppet play full of vitality and nostalgia. Do not miss any part because the plot of Aporia: Beyond the Valley will gradually be revealed until the end; it can touch your emotions. We can only see the truth when we understand how it started!
Admittedly, the graphics of Aporia: Beyond the Valley are very cleverly “charmed” through the use of light effects in all angles, both spectacular and mysterious. The developer has also taken advantage of a lot of lighting effects to hide the flaws in the graphics of Aporia: Beyond the Valley, but many things try to hide the more obvious it becomes.
It is not difficult to assess the level of detail and the quality of the graphics of Aporia: Beyond the Valley in the outdated category. In the far-sighted scenes, the land of Ez’rat Qin is very beautiful, but when it comes to certain things, that beauty is created from patchwork, lack of care, and a bit behind age. The surface texture used on the objects is not uniform; some places are too detailed, some areas are too thin, causing them to stretch, crumble very difficult to see. Expensive effects are often used in the far perspective, while the close-up view has a small effect, revealing crudeness in the less polygonal model of the environment. Throughout the journey in Aporia:
- Beyond the Valley of the writer, two opposing opinions about the beauty and the bad in the game’s graphics.
- It is not in sync.
- There is much sloppiness, although overall, it is still quite good.
Although somewhat outdated, Aporia: Beyond the Valley still proved to be quite heavy, part of the game was built on CryEngine, so it is understandable for this not-so-smooth performance. The game’s frame is unstable, sometimes falling to a very low level (below 10FPS) even though the scene that the system has to handle is essentially nothing. Although it has released up to two patches mainly for the game’s performance, it does not seem to have a significant improvement. Anyway, with a puzzle adventure game, the frame factor is not so important; for some gamers, it will sometimes make them feel tired because of the low frame rate of the game.
The minus point is graphics and frame rate. Specifically, the gameplay of Aporia: Beyond the Valley has elements of interaction with the environment. Still, they are shown at a rather superficial level and do not play an important role. Typically, pulling a rope to move a ladder or ferry is quite cumbersome and does not bring anything interesting.
Puzzles in Aporia: Beyond the Valley are mostly interesting; some mysteries seem trivial even when you get close to the end of the game. The variety in the puzzle series is quite great, but the consistency between them is not high; there is no meaningful connection but “puzzle.”
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