Most importantly, it's a warm - though otherworldly - locale that you'll just want to spend time pottering about in.
In some ways, the hopeless, crumbling facade of Machinarium makes for a rather grim backdrop, but the robots you meet and the events that unfold - all drawn and animated with care - give this microadventure a true sense of character.Īll in all, Machinarium presents a plausible land of automata, and not just a series of inter-connected, puzzle-filled screens. It's drenched in muted colours and dilapidated mess. There are dogs made of cogs, dancing wrenches, and elderly church-goers. It's two parts steam punk, one part dystopia. The city itself is a scrappy and arcane metropolis, laced with pipes and tubes over Victorian tiles and wallpaper. He needs to sneak back in, avoid playground bullies, save his girlfriend from robo-slavery, and defuse a bomb.įittingly, its humour is delivered in silent slapstick with over the top expressions and cute set-ups. You play as a stretchy robot boy who's been tossed into the scrapheap outside city limits. Without dialogue, Machinarium's narrative is necessarily subtle and understated.
Thoughts, feelings, and desires are instead shown as doodley animations in pop-up thought bubbles, and the backstory to Machinarium's quirky city is revealed in its inhabitants, objects, colours, and mechanisms. Outside 'Save' and 'Load', there isn't a word of dialogue throughout the entire adventure.
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It urges would-be movie makers to reveal facts about the world and its characters through actions, rather than boring exposition and endless voice over.Ĭzech point-and-clicker Machinarium from Amanita design is all about the power of showing over telling.Įverything you need to know about the game, from the steampunk cityscape to the bullies who preside over it, from your hero's love for a tin can girl-bot to a woman's worry for her lost robodog, is portrayed through sounds, sights, and gorgeous hand-drawn art. There's an old adage passed down by screenwriters - "Show, don't tell".
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