I bought a make-it-yourself stuffed animal toy because I saw an advertisement in the train with a QR code, discovering it was a real Japanese online store.

Neat little game; bought it on a whim. Got more value than a big mac, and a big mac only takes like 10/5minutes to eat kinda slowly.

worth 3 slowly eaten bigmacs at half the price of one combo meal

i just wanna go home

It's difficult to figure out the rules of the game at the start, but once you start playing you'll figure it out quite fast.
-The main rule: Proceed to the next cart without dying.
-The level only increases after you find an anomaly and proceed, but it doesn't reset.... unless you die.
-Some anomalies have very simple but specific rules to proceed.
Some examples are: Red light, green light Don't look Keep looking Hide and Seek Avoid Run Don't turn around Sit.

Tip: The digital displays above the doors may sometimes help you.

The game is relatively easy, same with getting the 3 achievements.

This is one of those "I wish there was a thumbs sideways" games for me. It definitely has some spooky set pieces, and might even make you jump a couple of times. However, I bought this because I'm a fan of the other game in this series, Exit 8, and I feel like this one might have misunderstood what made the first one so tense. In the first game, there was a choice to be made - "is there something wrong here?" - and you had to concentrate hard to make it. This creates paranoia, which then compounds as you either fool yourself into thinking you've seen something when you haven't, miss something, or focus too intensely in the wrong place only to get caught out by an anomaly suddenly appearing elsewhere. It was like a game of spot the difference with consequences for failure. By comparison, this one is more of a haunted house at a fairground - there are some spooky set-pieces but the only choice is to go forward. The anomalies themselves are nicely varied and in some cases more impressive than in the first game, ranging from lighting glitches to full on supernatural assaults, but the paranoia that defined Exit 8 just wasn't there for me. If this game had been the first in the series I'd have given it a thumbs up, but despite the slightly greater spectacle of some of the anomalies I think this one is a step backwards. It's still not a bad experience and very reasonably priced, but I could only recommend it fully if you've not played Exit 8 first.

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Overall I enjoyed the game and would recommend it, though the gameplay differs from other anomaly games in the style of The Exit 8.

There's a lot of interesting anomalies and jump scares throughout the game. Unlike many games in the genre, the player is not looking for subtle anomalies to decide whether to go forward or turn around. The player can only go forward. Instead, the goal is to figure out how to move past the anomalies. Many of the anomalies are simply jump scares or creepy changes to the environment that require nothing more than walking past them. Other anomalies require following directions to get past. Some require the player to figure out what to do to proceed. In all case though, it's simply moving forward.

There are only a few (5?) of the subtle "spot the difference" type anomalies, and in all case there is a notification that one is present and to wait for it to go away before proceeding. This is done by finding it and looking at it for a few seconds, and it will go away.

It's a fun game, but I was expecting Platform 8 to be more like The Exit 8. In The Exit 8, looking for subtle differences that could be present in each room, and knowing that proceeding while missing one will reset the game, drives a sense of paranoia and much more thorough investigation. That, combined with the fact that The Exit 8 has many subtle variations that could be present leads to the player being unsure and second guessing themselves which is part of the fun.

Conversely in the Platform 8, the player can just charge forward until they hit an obvious anomaly. Then it's just a matter of figuring out how to proceed past it. This renders all of the normal train cars as meaningless as there's no reason to spend any time in them as there's no decision to make about which way to go. It's simply getting to the door on the other side and going through it and if there's no obvious anomaly that means the player can just sprint through it. In some cases the anomalies are just cosmetic and there's nothing to do beyond just walking through it.

I don't want to be overly critical as I enjoyed Platform 8. That said, as lazy as it sounds from a developer perspective, I would much rather see future games go back to The Exit 8 model. That's a winning a formula for this style of game. Platform 8, while still good, is a step down from it. I would love to see more explorations of this universe in the style of The Exit 8.

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It's like Exit 8, but your dad told you to confront your fears so you run past them rather than running away like the first game. Very fun

Short and sweet sequel to the first game. It lacks certain instructions though so it may take a while to catch the drift of the game. If you played the first game, your first instinct when seeing an anomaly would be to turn around but that's simply not possible here.
There are also fun new strategies to some anomalies and once again the developer nailed the atmosphere and sound design. Can't wait to see where the next titles will go.