This had potential but the execution was rather lackluster. The "puzzles" were generally not intuitive or cohesive beyond the first planet till you get "the recipe." "Fight" at the end was very bland. Disappointed, but it was a quick play so it's alright.

I really tried to like this title and gave it my best despite being a fan of point and clicks and space games, but it was just too frustrating.
Very far fetched puzzles, close to impossible without a guide and due to constant need to back track and slow character motion it was just too much.

Unfortunately, it's a pass for me.

Do not buy. This software doesn't even suffice as a picture book for kids.

Have you have ever heard of someone complain that some FPS games are tedious when they have the player traverse great distances to push button A in order to achieve result B? This game is that, except you do not get to have any real fun doing it, and the puzzles are more meaningless.

"Use bird on cloud, bird is charged, put bird on TV to get juice from ghost"

Yeah...

There are no mechanics to make gameplay enjoyable, the characters move slowly, and since all one is doing is effectively randomly combining junk or using items in nonsensical ways, all of which is separated by great distance, it feeling meaningless.

The game started out being interesting but quickly grew tedious. The puzzles were not intuitive and the plot was not compelling. I liked the idea behind the game but I think it could have been executed better.

Pros: Beautiful game, great animations.

Cons: Stupid puzzles, terrible game flow.

TL;DR: DON'T BUY THIS GAME. EVEN if it's on sale. Pay to NOT play this game.

Cute characters, great art, horrible puzzles.

The "Super Mario Galaxy" of traditional Sierra / LucasArts style adventure games has your characters walking around circular planetoids. Unfortunately, the puzzles they encounter are so illogical that a guide is absolutely required to make progress. Some locations even exist purely to confuse the player, and serve no true purpose. It's a real shame.

I judge games by their gameplay, and Tales of Cosmos fails miserably, falling into all the bad habits of the old adventure genre, with bizarre solutions that no human being could ever guess. Even if you intend to randomly try things for hundreds of hours, sometimes you have to try the "thing" on the "thing" multiple times before you get the desired outcome with no feedback. "Try every object on every object, then try it again" is the marching order, and even then you're unlikely to ever make some of the logical leaps. Out of frustration, you will launch your slow spacecraft for another planet to see if you missed something, and watch your characters shuffle in slow motion, like geriatrics, around this beautiful scenery. For some solutions, you have to do the "thing" at the right time. How likely are you to make that leap? To stand in the same room, doing nothing, waiting for an event to happen? Not likely.

The character movement is extremely slow, and flying between planets takes far too long as well. It feels like planets were placed a fair distance away from each other to artificially extend gameplay. Even the old Sierra adventures had game-speed controls.

I would like to recommend it, because it is extremely cute and contains great art and animations (I love it when the little puppy fogs up his space helmet from panting). These characters deserve a better game. If you want to play through a short, cute adventure using a walkthrough (there is a steam community guide, thank god), go for it, but if you like to solve puzzles on your own, this romp through the cosmos will infuriate you.

The game's got a lovely art style (although it's a bit of a shame that the palette is so dull) and a nice feel to it, but many of the puzzles are quite farfetched and I had to resort to using one of the steam guides to be able to complete it. It's not a bad game, but it lacks variety.