Plattform Puzzle Februar 2019 erschienen

Ein heftiger Sturm zieht auf und alle Tiere flüchten um sich in Sicherheit zu bringen. Nur die Kaninchennasenbeutler Familie will ihre Heimat nicht verlassen. Sie versuchen sich zu verbarrikadieren und vor dem Hochwasser zu schützen. Leider hilft alles drücken nichts und das Wasser spült die gesamte Familie weg. Mutter Bilby wird von ihren Kindern getrennt und muss hilflos mitansehen wie sie immer weiter weggespült wird. Wie durch ein Wunder überlebt sie und muss unbedingt zu ihren geliebten Kindern zurück an die Oberfläche finden. So beginnt das Abenteuer…

Macrotis ist ein Plattform Rätsel Spiel. Als Bilby müssen wir Etappenweise Rätsel lösen um in den nächsten Abschnitt zu gelangen. So müssen unter anderem Dinge wie Äste und Steine verschoben, gegraben, Wurzeln durchgebissen und der Wasserspiegel erhöht werden. Zwischen den einzelnen Welten gibt es immer gezeichnete Cutscenes die einen weiteren Einblick in die Geschichte versprechen. Die Rätsel werden immer schwieriger und durch neu hinzukommende Techniken müssen wir auch immer mehr beachten. Alle Rätsel werden durch angenehme Musik begleitet. Da man sich unter der Erde befindet gibt es hier auch Spinnen im Hintergrund. Der Entwickler hat an Personen die unter Arachnophobie leiden gedacht und eine Option eingebaut mit der man Spinnen deaktivieren kann.
Ansonst ist die Grafik recht nett anzusehen und die Kaninchennasenbeutler (was für ein Name…) sehen niedlich aus.

Grafik: sieht gut aus für einen 2,5 D Plattformer. Die Level Hintergründe sind gut gemacht und Bilby sieht einfach knuffig aus. Auch nette Animationen sind vorhanden.
Sound: recht angenehm. Die Aktionen sind mit Soundeffekten hinterlegt und die Abschnitte werden mit verschiedenen Musikstücken untermalt
Steuerung: getestet wurde mit einem Xbox One Controller. Funktioniert gut, lediglich Sprünge kommen mir leicht verzögert vor. Man gewöhnt sich aber daran
Spaßfaktor: durch stetig steigender Schwierigkeit bieten die Rätsel Abwechslung und motivieren zum Lösen. Die Grafik und die Story unterstützen den Motivationsfaktor und Spielspaß
Sammelkarten: ✔️
Achievements: ✔️


+ gute Story
+ gute Grafik mit netten hintergründen und Animationen
+ Rätsel bieten Abwechslung und werden immer schwieriger
+ im Laufe des Spiels kommen weitere Techniken dazu die so für Abwechslung sorgen

- Sprünge sind etwas verzögert (aber man gewöhnt sich rasch daran)

Macrotis: A Mother's Journey ist ein netter Puzzle Plattformer mit niedlichen Charakteren, angenehmer Grafik und einer interessanten Story! Die Rätsel sind abwechslungsreich und motivierend. Durch hinzukommende Fähigkeiten und Techniken wird es auch nicht langweilig Empfehlung? Für Plattform Rätsel Fans überaus empfehlenswert!

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Denksport + super Story. Total niedlich und ist mega gut.

Auch mit wenig Budget lässt sich ein Spiel zaubern, das unter die Haut geht, wie Macrotis - A mother's journey beweist.

Wunderschöne Grafik. Ist was zum knobeln. Macht Spaß

I love this game, the story is awesome and the riddles are challenging.

Playing Macrotis: A Mother's Journey has been an absolutely amazing experience for me. It’s a game that ticks all my boxes and it even exceeded my expectations. To put it in simple words: it’s not extremely difficult, yet it poses a certain degree of challenge; it’s emotional and immersive; it’s puzzly and creative; the art and soundtrack are astonishing; it has collectibles that are moderately easy to spot / reach and a secret alternate ending. All in all, it’s a great game, with a solid gameplay and a touching story and if you’re still in doubt whether to buy it / give it a try, then I warmly recommend you to not hesitate any more; it deserves every cent and every minute of your time.

In terms of gameplay, Macrotis: A Mother's Journey is an emotional 2.5D side scroller puzzle platformer with a touching story centered on a mother rabbit-bandicoot (which is the alternate name for the macrotis / bilbies species) who was separated from her children during a terrible flood. While they were able to grab onto a log and save themselves, the mother was dragged underground by the running waters and is now trying to find a way out of the maze of subterranean caves. In her journey, she is aided by a good wizard who lends her his magical powers so that they can stop the rain together and reunite the bilby family.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1649348079

The magician progressively bestows upon mother bilby new magic abilities, therefore every chapter of the game introduces new puzzle elements and mechanics: in addition to digging, gnawing ropes or pushing / pulling stone cubes, she receives the power to summon her spirit form which has the same abilities as her normal form but in addition to that it can pass through walls, at the expense of decreasing the range of movement; later in the game, mother bilby will be able to build walls that can help her or her spirit form climb further up or block projectiles, with the restriction of having a maximum of three walls active at the same time. The puzzles are well-crafted and their general difficulty isn't very high, but Macrotis can sometimes make you think for a while and try different approaches until you find the right solution.

In regards to the difficulty of the platforming aspect, I would say that Macrotis targets moderately experienced players. In the whole game there are only two long and challenging platforming sequences which require a certain level of precision or timing from the player. You’ll end up trying them several times until you get them right or until your muscle memory is formed, but that’s expected from any good platformer game. To help with that, there is always a checkpoint before a puzzle and occasionally there are additional ones, mid-platforming sequence. This helps retrying / resetting a puzzle very quickly and also prevents the frustration of trying one of the longer sequences over and over again.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1650075684

The peaceful and calming ambiental music matches the gameplay very well. Macrotis: A Mother's Journey isn't overall a fast paced game. Most of the time will be spent in thinking about solving the next puzzle, therefore having a relaxing and non-intrusive soundtrack is very important and the game does an exceptional job with that.

Overall, Macrotis is a love-and-gentless infused puzzle platformer, with an astonishing visual presentation, light paced gameplay and a captivating story.

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Sehr schönes Jump'n'Run in Bezug auf Grafik und Musik. Aber es ist mir zu schwer und fühlt sich für mich nach Arbeit an anstatt Erholung.

Macrotis: A Mother's Journey is a delightful journey of a mother Bilby trying to return to her 3 children after being separated from them during a massive flood. It is a fine first effort by Turkish Developers Proud Dinosaurs and has deservedly won some awards.
The raging waters carried Mrs Bilby deep underground and during her journey she meets a wizard who is willing to help her return home. However, they have to stop the rain first. Through supernatural powers endowed to her, she is able to leave her body and move through walls with her spirit self. It makes for interesting gameplay. She is able to push stones, eat roots, dig through walls and create walls.....aside from being an acrobatic jumper.
Gameplay is fairly simply, but you have to be pretty nimble at times to get through a couple of long obstacle courses pretty fast. I found the first 2 chapters much harder in the platforming area than the latter part of the game. The water course was particularly challenging. The latter part of the game was puzzle heavy where you had to use strategies to go from A to B. My brain really ached at times!
Graphics are bright and beautiful and the music creates a lovely peaceful ambience. Puzzles were very creative and although not overly hard, required some thinking. There was a backstory of an ancient race of little people which was interesting. I never got bored. I personally found the voiceovers quite good, but others didn't like them.
Experienced platformers will sail through this. I got all the achievements, but had to replay some chapters to find two missing ones which I discovered through a guide.
Some players may find this emotional as it highlights the love of a mother for her children and she will move mountains to find them again. Be sure to watch all the credits (which are short) as the story continues afterwards. I had no glitches with this game.
I look forward to another game from this developer. Strongly recommend for people who like non violent games and a heartwarming story. 8.5/10

I'm going to start this off by saying that I normally don't play platformer/puzzle games.
That being said, I absolutely loved this game. I've tried other platformers, and none managed to capture my interest like this game did. From the art style, to the games story, to the gameplay itself, I have nothing but love for this game.
It's a somewhat short game. I finished it in roughly 5 hours, but that was more or less going fast and not exploring as much as some would.
I cannot recommend this game enough, though. For $10, this game is an absolute steal.
The game's story can very easily suck you in, as well as possibly make you shed a few tears because of how emotional it is. Definitely give this game a play through, be it with an Xbox controller, or just your keyboard. Both feel wonderful once you learn what does what.

Kuddos Proud Dinosaurs, on creating what is now one of my favourite games!

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(n) macrotis A genus of bandicoots of the family Peramelidæ, having long pointed ears like those of a rabbit, proportionally longer hind limbs than the typical bandicoots, the hallux wanting, the tail long and hairy, and the pouch opening forward. M. lagotis is called the native rabbit in Australia, from its size and general appearance.
~from http://www.finedictionary.com/Macrotis.html

Macrotis: A Mother's Journey is a series of 2D platforming puzzles strung together with some really fantastic artwork and textures and a reasonably put-together story. It is not too long overall, as I completed the whole game in just under 6 hours with almost all of the achievements. But the nature of the puzzles are designed well and the gradual integration of more complexity with progression makes the player feel never too overwhelmed.

I consider myself okay at solving puzzles and using my brain, and there were some puzzles that gave me a good deal of difficulty. I played this game on and off over the course of several days, in sporadic sittings. I would get stuck on a puzzle and then quit after a couple of botched attempts, go do something, and still be thinking about the puzzle, come up with a different approach, then relaunch the game and try again.

The puzzles do not get progressively harder. There are 4 chapters total, each with some easy and some more difficult puzzles. Especially after a new mechanic is introduced, you get a series of rather simple puzzles involving the new mechanic to get you used to it, before things become more complex. This kind of gentle hand-holding is often appreciated. Even though you have to complete the puzzles in sequence and you can get stuck. As long as you are not in a hurry and must finish the game right away, you can always think about the puzzles while you are not playing, like what happened with me. Though for me, I couldn't help myself, my brain would just automatically wander back to the puzzles even if I had been doing something else.

The game automatically saves after each puzzle completion, so you never have to worry bout progress. My biggest issue with the save system is that there is only one save slot. And when you go to relaunch the game, the default cursor is on "New Game" instead of "Continue." This really should get changed because if you accidentally start a new game, your old save gets erased. Of course I clicked this a bunch of times in my impatience to restart the game from time to time. Fortunately the game gave me a warning every time I did, and thus tragedy struck not upon my save file while I progressed in this intermittent nature.

There are 27 achievements total, and 18 of them are progression based. As long as you finish the game once, you will get those, and likely some of the others. I only played through once, and I was careful to gather all of the collectible (books) in the game, I ended up with 24/27 in one go. The biggest downfall for most platforming puzzles is the lack of replay value. Once you figure out a puzzle, it's not at all challenging to go through it a second time. So even though I know I should be able to go back and gather the last 3 achievements, I am not sure if I really want to do it, but focus my time and efforts elsewhere instead.

Here's my first attempt at this game. It was after a long work day and my brain was probably functioning at 20% and snoozing when I tried to record:
https://youtu.be/SNnq_r_OvnE

I played with a controller, and it worked perfectly

2D puzzles set in with 3D textures, the attention to detail was amazing in this game.

The music is all right, nothing fancy, but nice and soothing in the background. The English voice-acting is decent.

Definitely worthwhile for people who like puzzle platformers to check out the game. There are some timed-elements in there that are not too difficult. But I also know some people who play puzzle games don't like to do anything against a timer. So if that sounds like you, stay away.

Base price of $9.99 USD is a reasonable price for a game that clearly took a lot of time, dedication in order to put together. The price you pay is not for the length of the game, or the number of puzzles, but for the overall experience, and it's worth it.

1. That starting menu needs to have the cursor default to "Continue" instead of "New Game."
2. The Extras section seems to be missing some artwork
3. The wall jumping mechanic/animation takes a bit to much time, in my opinion, and could be improved upon to allow the player not to have to wait after jump and grabbing onto a wall. The smoother transition between jumps would be appreciated. Of course this is not game breaking in any way, it just gave to a slightly slowed down pace while engaging in the platforming parts of the game.

Macrotis: A Mother's Journey is a puzzle-platformer that is well-designed and fun to play. Despite its short nature and lack of replay value, I would still highly recommend this game.

I received the product for free. I did not receive any compensation to write this review. The opinions represented here are entirely my own and were not influenced in any way.