Splice Game Review

FurTalk's Wolfin takes a gander at Splice, available on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/209790/

Overall game rating: 9/10
Estimated game value: $5

Hey there. It's Jeffrey Wolfin Core with FurTalk.com.
Here to monologue and teach you about a new

game, like the Processor That Could.

Today we are talking about a game called Splice.
It's relatively new. It's made by Cipher Prime.

You might have heard of them before if you've
played a game called Auditorium or Audiotorium.

I guess that sounds same, so we'll go with
Audiotorium.

It was a little online game that turned into
an offline game you get for Steam. Originally,

I believe in Steam too, it's a flash game.

Cipher Prime went on to make a few other less
known things and then they get with Splice

which actually looks really, really awesome.
We're seeing some of the initial game play

for it here now. It looks decent. You can't
really go wrong with glowy spheres and a user

interface that moves around with your mouse.
It is actually very, I guess the correct word

would be, trippin'.

It's kind of weird when you move your mouse,
the entire view changes with you.

Basically, it's a puzzle game. It's different
than Audorium. I cannot say the name of the

other game. As I continue to murder it, just
know what I am talking about.

The other cool thing here is you can actually
rewind and fast-forward through time with

your mouse wheel. If you make an error, you
don't have to go back and start from scratch.

You just do a little scrolling action and
there you go. You see the music twitters a

bit, the screen shows a little bit of a VCR-kind
of lines through it to show that you are actually

moving things back and forth. You can go back
to where you were when you last made your

mistake. It's kind of neat feature there,
a little bit of a novelty, but still neat,

especially when you get to the larger levels
and you end up having dozens of splices and

you really appreciate that feature.

The idea is that you get to create your strand
to match the pattern. There's an existing

pattern, it's outlined and you do some clicking
and clacking and create the pattern that's

there.

Overall, it's really fun, actually … a bit
of a struggle by times to get through some

of these. I had to do some cheat look-up on
one of them, by cheat, I mean check other

people on YouTube and find the answer. Past
that it became more and more apparent.

Part of the reason was actually I had to look
it up because there was a new element, a new

bead or jelly bean, whatever they're calling
these little strands. One of the items had

a new feature on it that I didn't recognize
and they provide no in-game tutorial which

tells you what these things do. It's better
to battle it out and figure it out yourself

and I didn't. I had to go and check. Once
I realized what that was doing, not a problem.

The graphics in this game, I have to give
them a 10 out of 10, because they are just

really awesome. You can't argue with the graphics.

The music … let's just listen to some of
the music they have here just for the sake

of argument.

Not too shabby there. It's a bit repetitive
by times. I believe that some of the tracks

are reused from Audiotorium. I know that menu
track I've heard before, which is somewhat

annoying. You'd think they would have had
all new scores for this game. Because of that,

just because they used it before, I am going
to deduct a point. I am going to call it a

9 of 10, aside from that, the music is really
good. It gets you in the mood for the game.

It matches the mood well. The sound effects
are not overwhelming, but when they are there,

you actually do need them.

Controls … it's pretty hard to go wrong
with a mouse. 10 out of 10 for this particular

style of game.

Game play … this is where things get weird
for me because there was no good documentation

and moving through this is a struggle to figure
out what the heck you're doing. We are going

to go with a 7 out of 10 for that.

Replay-ability on a game like this ends up
going through the floor, just because it's

like those rings you buy and you figure out
how to get the rings apart and once you've

done it once, it always stays with you. Then
the rings are no longer fun. The only fun

you have is to try to pawn them off on a friend
and try and watch and laugh while they can't

figure it out.

This game's like that. Once you play it once
you're probably not going to go back to it.

The replay-ability score, I am going to say
a 3 out of 10. You'll probably never play

it again, which is sad. This does have Steam
achievements, though, so you can always try

to get all of those to extend the experience
very slightly. Most of the achievements are

just you've beaten this series or extended
this sequence. Yeah, there's not a lot of

achievements you have to go back for to add
any additional replay value.

As far as value goes, knowing this particular
developer and knowing what they did to Audiotorium,

which was not much, I would not expect you
to ever see an update or expansion pack or

anything for this game. There's really no
additional value beyond when you originally

buy it.

The asking price is $10 on Steam or $13 for
the soundtrack. It's also part of the Humble

Bundle for Android IV on HumbleBundle.com.
Of course, by the time you see this video,

it's probably going to be over with. Steam
pricing will be likely what you'll have to

pay and that is $10 for the game, $13 for
the game and soundtrack. If you like the soundtrack,

it is probably a good value at that.

I realize I am clicking a lot. I shouldn't
be doing that while recording this thing,

should I?

Anyways … not really worth the $10 for the
game itself, in my opinion. You can also get

this game for your iPad. On the iPad, it is
$4, which honestly I would think would be

an excellent bang on value for this game because
it really does feel like a mobile game that

was created for the PC first. It probably
deserves a mobile game price. If you catch

this for, I am going to say $5 to be kind,
$5 or less, you should grab it. It's great

The graphics themselves look really great.
It's neat to try to concentrate a bit through

fun.

puzzles… But for the full $10, I wouldn't
brake for it.

Hey, I am still Wolfin. Go to FurTalk.com
to catch more of these things if you are into

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time.