The story of Almost – Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales Review

Pros: Great concept, graphics, story, animations, mechanics, and wonderful use of characters put into an experience that makes sense. -The game is a lot of fun for about a week. Cons: -Progression severely slows down by the end of chapter 2…which isn’t far. —It slows down because you can’t level your characters fast enough and the game runs out of reasons to pick it up. You’ll progress one level per day at most. —You can play through the portal, play the club boss, play the HNL levels, and then you’re stuck in the story. But there isn’t anything to do in the meantime. You can’t go back and play levels, spar, or even something more passive like an “arcade/horde mode” where you simply play against waves of enemies at your leisure to help level up your characters for even tiny amounts of rewards. Which means you’ll only spend about 15 minutes playing the game per day at most. -Character abilities are oddly locked from player view on almost every screen. —For every game of this type where there are character abilities you unlock the higher level the character is, the user can see what those abilities are to decide if that character is worth leveling up or not. This game does not allow that unless you view the catalog which is not in the normal flow of the game at all. You do not know what abilities characters unlock on the actual character detail screen until you reach their respective levels, then it will reveal what that ability is or you spend a lot of time going through the catalog which doesn’t make sense to piece meal the characters abilities through the UX. —Purchasing characters in the store is a complete guessing game unless you spend a lot of time going back and forth in the catalog. Because they did not build the UX/UI to tell you what each character’s stats or abilities are in the store, you have to spend time unnecessarily going back and forth. -Leveling up items is a painful task. —You do not know the abilities of each item you would consume to level up another from the level up screen, it simply expects you to know.
Review by Spyder1212 on Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales.