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If you ever wondered what BuzzFeed quizzes would like as a video game then perhaps bright side riddles and puzzles wold be not too far short from the mark. In bright side riddles and puzzles you’re playing various different video quizzes that are narrated by a narrator that gets that they’re doing the same thing over again and leans into it for a joke, but presents you a one to four player multiple choice quiz format. Each video ranges from 8 to about 13 minute in length and can see it in the menu you and judge your time accordingly so that you can then see who scores the most points.

The quizzes range from a who is lying to who’s the person that’s most likely to survive
who’s most stupid
who’s the richest family
who’s the poorest family spotting the odd one out things like that.

They’re very simple to understand what it is that you’re meant to do, but sometimes some of the quiz questions are up for debate so some of them require like real world logic such. As which of these supposedly deadly animals would you rather sit in a room with and it would turn out that one of them actually isn’t bothered about humans and you just need to know that in order to get the right answers to survive. Other ones are things like observational quizzes because this is all in a video format, so it’ll be like someone stole your wedding ring and them you’ll be able to spot that one of the people that you’re being that you’re being that you’re accusing has gloves on so that’s kind of going to push you for your options there.

Other are a bit more subjective where someone’s put on supposed logic into a question to give them the answers. And so you’d kind of go okay, or it might be trying to spot something where the buildup to the question actually informs the answer. So an example of this would be you’re trapped inside an ice castle and you’ve got three deadly exits to het out of and one of them is a water ih like River full of piranhas. But then because you’re in an ice castle the outside will be icy too so you can just step on the ice and get out, and it’s those kind of things that trip you up and then you make the wrong answer and then you’re thinking: What uh and some things are a little bit confusing from that perspective.

It’s about paying attention visually and audibly to what the Preamble is quite often before you then make your choice. The choices get quicker and quicker in some quizzes um it’s very easy if you’ve plugged in your own controllers for each person to very quickly just press up down left or right todo their own thing. There are some questions, where actually choosing nothing is the right answer and that frows you off because you always feel like you’re being forced into a choice. And yeah it’s an interesting concept I think it leans into the fact that it repeats and recycles the same thing over an over again and the narrator kind of makes a joke of it, and when you see this on sale.

I actually think it’s a nice friendly silly bright and uh jovial quiz game to play. Just don’t expect too much replay-ability because the answers obviously will always stay the same.

Sometimes I call myself directionality challenge or directionality intelligent depending. On if I’m having a glass half empty or glass half full day and that’s because games occasionally come along that are really simple, but they totally defeat my brain they’re often spatial puzzles and this is kind of one. But it really highlighted my inability to do graphic designe the pain puzzle is all about trying to layer on different geometric colors and shapes in arranging them in a way.

So that they can match the pane of uh design that is underneath where it says level and then there’s little small hexagon there you’re layering from the 20 different shapes and colors that are available underneath onto the big hexagon Pane and what you need to try and understand in to emulate and replicate what’s been given to you is:

A- What order the colors and shapes need to be added on and then.
B- what orientation.

And I was fine with working out the colors and shapes and being able to flip Them around and so on so forth when it was three or four layers but towards the end of The 100 puzzle layouts it was starting to become a five six and seven layer puzzle an nothing fundamentally changed and quite often I could see where I needed to get to but my brain just could not cope with being able to select was going around and orientating them the right way and there was realy tiny nuances is where I’d bring something to a nearly done perspective and then be like.

Ah now I am stuck thankfully the controls are very simple to get to grasp with it’s literally just clicking with the mouse and deciding with the different icons which way you want to flip or rotate each layer around and you can click on the hexagon in the main again to take off layers too so it’s nice to kind of go back and forth and work out. What you’re doing the game also has a really generous hint system to the point where you can just hint your way through the entire game and get a 100% steam Achievement Award so clap clap clap if you’re going to do that.

But if you don’t use that hint system actually there’s a couple of hours of decent gameplay here as you slowly solve the different puzzles and feel good about yourself and hopefully much better. Than I did my only negative comment about the pain puzzle is this game separate out its levels into tow sets of 50 but it’s the same 20 shapes both times around. That are being used to create all of the different pains and I think this game wold have been better had have been different set of 20 shapes each of the 50 level splits, because what I found was that you start to see certain patterns of uh level designs popping up again and again and you start to hone in on.

Oh I’ve made what shape before I’ll pull that forward and do it again and actually it does lend you somewhere towards the right answer and so yeah. I Just think there would have been a little bit more variety had have used different shapes for the different levels but what’s here is great and for 220 I’m not complaining the pain puzzle is out now