Bananadine wrote:

This game looks like it's less about building than Minecraft is. Minecraft makes 3D modeling accessible and fun, but 2D drawing is already accessible. But can you control things indirectly? Can you build machines? Are there wires or switches or automatic doors? It looks like building platforms is an important way to get around but it doesn't seem very fun for its own sake.

Videos make it appear that the view is fully in the third person--that is, that things are lit up only according to how exposed they are to light sources, and NOT according to how exposed they are to your character's line of sight. Is that right? The picture of the dudes in the penis room seems to confirm that. So there's never a time when you break a wall and discover, at exactly that moment, that there's lava behind it (or just a big cool cave)? You see things coming up? That'd be a shame. Exploration is fun. But maybe a static 2D room made of head-sized square blocks just can't be complicated enough to be exciting anyway, unless there are unexpected creatures running around in it or something--whereas in 3D, an automatic world generator doesn't have to be very smart to come up with a huge variety of interesting forms, some of which can seem pretty wonderful when you turn a corner or knock out a block and blunder into them.

I guess this game is more about Mario-type acrobatics, cooperative combat, and item collection?