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RecommendedSteam player

05/25/2014

The Bridge is made from M. C. Escher's nightmares. Normally that would be a bad thing, but in this case, it's very good. The Bridge is a puzzle game with a simple premise: Reach the exit door. Your only tool is control over the direction of gravity though you can only change its direction slowly. You will need to avoid deadly obstacles and obtain keys to unlock doors in order to escape. While a few of the levels require frustrating levels of repetition and precision in order to reach your goal, most of them are very enjoyable. In total there are 24 puzzles and 24 mirror versions which add some elements of difficulty in addition to being reversed. Strangely I found the mirror versions of some of the hardest levels easier than their normal counterparts. Even if you aren't into puzzle games, the Escher-like artwork is worth marveling at. One thing I found missing in the game is music. It seems like a greatly missed opportunity for a unique and strange soundtrack to match the level design. There is some music in the game but it plays rarely and is very quiet. The other major weakness I found is probably not something many players will encounter: The collectibles. Some are absurdly difficult to find, and one even requires you doing something that the game constantly tells you doesn't work for the entire game. When you do locate them all, the reward is extremely anticlimactic. It's annoying but like I said, the majority of players probably won't bother with the collectibles and those that do will most likely use guides so they don't go insane trying to find them all. As a fan of puzzle games, I greatly enjoyed The Bridge. You will too!Show moreShow less

6.5 hours at review168 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

08/26/2014

I see quite a few people picking this up at the very low sale price. Just in case there's anyone else sitting on the fence about this, I thought I should add a note of caution. This is essentially a physics puzzler, which is ostensibly a genre I enjoy. In this case however, I think the the execution fails to live up to the ideas. For me, most of the challenge in the game came not through reasoning through the puzzles (though there were moments), but in wrestling with object momentum that frequently ended up being more frustrating than satisfying. At the sale price of $1 it's hard to argue that it's a waste of money. But I feel that personally for me it ended up being a waste of time. And that's something a low price does nothing to help. I see many good things written elsewhere about this game, so I may be in a minority in feeling this way, but I can't help but feel that there are far better puzzle games out there, despite the compelling visual style that I still find appeals to me even though it also triggers memories of annoying level design.Show moreShow less

5 hours at review265 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

05/23/2014

3.141592651527/3.141592653589 Had to take aspirin after last 3 sessions. Wouldn't play it again, but I'm glad I did.Show moreShow less

16.2 hours at review77 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

12/24/2013

Like a lot of other players, I was immediately sold on The Bridge's concept and art style. Both are certainly very solid: Mind-bending puzzles in a graphite or charcoal sketch style inspired by the works of M.C. Escher. Puzzles work by rotating the level and moving your character, and solutions often require managing gravities that work in several different directions within the same level. There's little not to love with that description, and that is ultimately what sold me on the game. What ultimately comes out of that concept, however, is little beyond an exercise in tedium. There are several details in the game's execution that leave more to be desired. (Full disclosure: I reached about halfway through Chapter 4 before realizing that I was not enjoying myself in the slightest.) First, and most noticeably, is the ambling pace of both the character's movement and that of the level rotation. Many times, I found myself just idly holding a direction for several seconds, waiting for the level to reach the desired orientation while my character impotently shuffled about trying to gain footing on the shifting ground. Or I'd end up dragging my feet along a "twisting" path -- which usually turns out to be ultimately linear -- to my destination, long after having worked out the solution. I appreciate a good, thoughtfully paced puzzle experience, but perhaps the motion of the level and character should actually match that speed of thought. Perhaps more egregious, though, is that the puzzles, while sometimes fairly challenging, never actually feel satisfying to solve. Unlike other more clever puzzle platformers, there were never any "Oh, yeah! THAT'S how I'll do it!" moments while playing The Bridge. Everything seemed to just kind of putt along, and reaching a solution seemed like a given more than an actual achievement. Perhaps it gets more interesting after Chapter 4, but that's the point that I gave up. Other objections could be made of how highly derivative -- downright imitative -- the game is of a certain other time-bending puzzle platformer. One could suggest that shoehorned time reversal mechanic adds absolutely nothing to the game experience other than harking to another better game. Arguments could be made that the narrative and level structures are almost identical to that one game with the timey wimey stuff. One could do all that, if one wasn't enjoying playing Braid so much more. Overall, I wouldn't personally recommend The Bridge, unless you picked it up on sale and don't mind tediously trudging through admittedly very competently illustrated puzzles for a few hours. I commend the developers and wish them the best for their future games, but hopefully next time they won't try to make Braid 2: The Rebraidening.Show moreShow less

1.5 hours at review128 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

07/15/2013

With the many platformers and puzzle games constantly being released, The Bridge changes up the puzzle genre with an extremely unique take on puzzles. This game forces the player to view the game in different ways. The mind-bending puzzles has the player's reevaluate the preconceptions they've had on physics and perspective of the world. "It is Isaac Newton meets M.C. Escher." The puzzles consist of one or many intricate architectures where the player has to manipulate gravity to complete the levels. The levels of the puzzles gradually increase, leaving a sense of accomplishment after completing them. The beginning puzzles start out extremely easy, letting the player finish in a minute or two, but the puzzles towards the end can leave a player stump for days unless they look up a guide or have someone else look at the puzzle (a different set of eyes can look at the puzzle at a different angle). Not only is The Bridge a highly intellectual game, the artwork is something to behold. Many art enthusiasts would enjoy the game, simply for the art. The art style is hand drawn black-and-white lithograph. At first glance, the art did not appeal to me, but after completing the game 100%, I saw how beautiful something so simple can be. With all that said, I dare you, reader, to complete this game 100%. The puzzles can leave you weary and your brain hurting, but the sense of accomplishment is well worth it.Show moreShow less

8.4 hours at review74 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

12/29/2014

Let me start by saying that The Bridge is not a bad game. For an indie game the developers should be proud of what they've accomplished. If there were a somewhere-between-thumbs-up-and-thumbs-down button this is the game I would most want to use it for. I leaned on the side of not recommending it though, for several reasons. This game is inevitably compared to Braid because it has an artsy style, time manipulation, and puzzles. But it's nowhere near the level of those other puzzle games I love, including Braid or Limbo or even Master Reboot. The reason is mostly depth and story. There simply isn't that much here. And what does exist is far too obscure and limited to be moving. Beyond that, the puzzles range from straightforward to extremely frustrasting. The difficulty never really flattened out: I either had a level figured out in the first minute, or could stare at it forever with limited success. A few puzzles required some split second timing, which given the controls and precision in this game (they're laggy and your character can't move fast at all) made them very annoying. It was essentially just repeat forever until you happen to squeeze by. The black and white art might have actually hurt the game more than helped, as it could be hard to tell the difference between some things that were only separated by shades of gray. As for the music, I hardly noticed it, so it didn't leave much of an impact. My final complaint is performance. This is a 2D game with limited effects, but even on an absurdly powerful machine it got extremely choppy at points. It was somewhere down near 1 frame per 2 seconds while I was in freefall. That's just not acceptable, even for an indie game. So overall if you're itching for a puzzle game and don't mind the lack of story, and can look past the game's other flaws, then you can pick up The Bridge and it will give you what you want for a few hours. But personally, I won't be coming back to it any time soon.Show moreShow less

10.6 hours at review41 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

04/10/2014

If You like puzzles, it's a must. M.C. Escher paintings, gone wild as a game of mind bending 4D puzzles. Seemingly Simple, Yet so complex! It is a level-iteration of what you'd expect Fez to have been, puzzle-wise. You will get frustrated, you will get stuck. Take a break, a nap, try it later and it will be like "oh, that's simple! Introduces mechanics over time, slowly, they mix well, and the art is as good as it gets. If you hate puzzles, avoid. Simple as that.Show moreShow less

4.3 hours at review73 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

02/17/2015

the bridge is a fancy but ultimately fairly unimpressive puzzle game that ends up putting too much stuff in your way that stops you from fully getting around to mastering its mechanics. walking is more like crawling, the camera twist is very sluggish as well and the low level count makes it so that you never quite get around to be comfortable with one mechanic by the time the game throws a new one at you it's frustrating and not very much enjoyable for that reason and a waste of a very striking visual designShow moreShow less

4.9 hours at review31 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

01/01/2020

Hi mates! The first thing what I can mind about this game is: I won't lie, it is the most difficult logical game what you will play with. Although you could have play 100 and 100 logical and/or indie games, you may NOT know what the real challange is. Until now. Here you won't know where the up and down is, what the lef and right is. You have to forget what you learn about physic, gravity and dinamic in the classrooms. PROs: -masterfully designed and varied maps, -nice story, -matching music and effects, -simple navigation. KONTRA: - no any clue in the game about the Collector achievement. There are no any things related to the locations of the hidden wisps. - Or just I wasn,t pretty wise to find it. :) Well, GOOD LUCK! (I know you smile now, but if you liked it, please, rather mark this review as useful, not funny. :) Thank you.)Show moreShow less

12.2 hours at review61 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

05/27/2017

Controls are made for a controller and though it's simple the puzzles are often made to be frustrating for no real reason. It's not that figuring out the puzzles is hard and you may know how to finish them instantly, but the controls limit your ability to do them. Also your character moves at a snails pace and you'll often be doing anything and everything to speed yourself up. Many of the puzzles 'difficulty' come from the sheer amount of time it'll take you to move the main character from a to b. There are a few puzzles that are satisfying to solve, but not satisfying to complete. - This game was from a humble bundle ages ago and I basically paid nothing for it. Money holds no context when giving this review. I would not recommend purchasing this, but if it's somehow free you may give it a try if you're really out of options otherwise the experience isn't worth the time you'd spend playing it. They somehow managed to suck the fun out of any and all of their puzzles by simply not making them enjoyable to complete. -Also it asked me to review it when launching the game the second time, so it does that as well. -Reviews are 'Very Positive', but looking at the achievements only 3.9% have completed it. -I did get 100% completion and achievements. If you're looking for an easy 100% achievement wise it is doable, though some may need a bit of guide assistance. Some of the hidden wisps are quite hidden. -The art style of the game was pretty nice and I enjoyed it. -The story had a good draw, but no real conclusion or meat to it. It would have been nice if a bit more had been put into the ending or the written parts a bit more fleshed out. It was very open to interpretation, so if you like that sort of ending/story then you'll like it for what it is.Show moreShow less

6.2 hours at review17 people found this helpful

The Bridge

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