Obulis review

Game: Obulis
Systems (Win version reviewed): Win
Original release date: March 2009
Developer: IonFX
Publisher: Meridian4

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The good:

Fun, challenging and satisfying
Novel gameplay
Good lifespan
Beautiful art and music
Very cheap


The bad:

No colourblind mode
It feels a little unforgiving at times
Virtually no replay value

Score: Excellent
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About my rating system.

Awful - Admit to liking this game and your friends and loved ones will forsake you. And you'll be arrested.

Bad - Really just a game for series/IP/genre diehards.

Okay - Not bad enough to be bad, not good enough to be good.

Good - Good ideas, good design, good execution. It's good.

Excellent - A very special layer of hell is reserved for people who don't own this game.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• asfm
• indie
• physics
• puzzle
• game
• obulis
• IonFX
• Meridian4
• computer
• video
• review

[MaurogDark]

Wanted to tell you this before, can you somehow increase the audio volume of your videos in general? It's getting ridiculous, I need to crank up both the YouTube volume and the headphones volume to the max, to hear you just below desired volume...

Please make them louder!

[antisocialfatman]

@MaurogDark I don't know what to tell you; I have my speaker volume on 1/4 and that's loud.

I will look into it but I doubt i can make them any louder.

[LiamNeesonsDick]

Great review, though I felt the games audio was a little louder than your voice, just a heads up.

[antisocialfatman]

@LiamNeesonsDick Yeah, I had to do that because there's so much background hum. I just can't get rid of it with this crappy integrated soundcard.

[wtfpantera]

@antisocialfatman did you try Audacity and it's noise removal tool?

[antisocialfatman]

@wtfpantera yes.

[LiamNeesonsDick]

I find it strange that people are complaining about the audio in general.

Everything came through just fine 'ere.

[LLLookAtYouHacker]

@dgmulf

I guess.

[dgmulf]

WOW. Played through about half of Chapter 1 this evening. This game is just way more fun than I expected it to be. One of the few rare games that actually really challenges your intellect and critical thinking skills, as well as involving timing action. I'm going to be really sad when I beat the game. =( LOL.

[dgmulf]

@LLLookAtYouHacker yeah, but you're not supposed to fiddle. you're supposed to think!

[DarkTemplar010]

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[LLLookAtYouHacker]

As I've been playing throughout the various puzzles, a majority of them seem to have a problem... in that if you "fiddle around" enough, you can find the path very quickly.

[LLLookAtYouHacker]

You convinced me to buy it :)

[TheDelta0214]

God damn! That is some hard s**** there!

[fpstomclancy]

good to see you reviewing again

[MaurogDark]

@antisocialfatman It's about the loudness of the video compared to everything else on YouTube. If you listen to this review and then to v=KxTxn0uU3VQ (a random video on the right by some guy), you should see what I mean.

For maximal point across getting, run both videos simultaneously.