Mu Complex, The Wolf Among Us
I need to talk about this "puzzle" game, Mu Complex, that Kongregate thinks I needed to play today. The premise is that you are a random hacker who has gained access to a server in an 50-year-old abandoned facility and get guided through by some unknown (obviously rogue A.I.) source. The puzzles, as they are, are very easy, and the plotline is so basic as to be almost completely ridiculous. Oh word? An A.I. managed to gain sentience in the early 1960's, a couple of years before the idea of intergrated circuits was even common? I totally believe this! Man the camera equipment at this abandoned lab sure is sophisticated. Pretty incredible that they had infrared digital cameras several decades before they were commercially available!
ANYWAY, the puzzles in this game are insultingly easy. A good fourth of the puzzles were simple number-to-letter transposition, 1=A, etc, and even then they gave numerous hints to make sure we "got" it. Also a couple of Bible verse puzzles, because those are impossible to solve on the Internet. Frankly the hardest part was typing in the commands to solve the puzzle exactly as they wanted, and they gave several helpful menus to work our way through the puzzles. Myst was goddamn harder than this, because at least that required trial and error. I will not be playing Chapter 2, is what I'm saying.
I also played through the first chapter of The Wolf Among Us, because I heard it was pretty good and...it was perfectly fine. I really enjoyed the world and the character building was pretty great. Do you want to know EXACTLY what happens? Well then, you need to click a button, son...