The initial frustration is always made up for by the enhanced understanding and satisfaction of working it out on your own. Instead, the Pedestrian then gives you plenty of opportunities to explore and understand new features in subsequent levels and encourages you to work things out for yourself. The introduction of new concepts and escalation in difficulty are gently paced, and only when new elements are first added does it really ever feel daunting-some of the puzzles I spent the longest on were just working out exactly how a new mechanic worked or could be used since the game doesn’t often provide much direction. I’d often find myself leaving it due to puzzle fatigue or being a little stuck, then come back to it later with renewed inspiration to immediately solve the troublesome puzzle, ready for a little more. It works very well as a game to spend half an hour with and then return to later, rather than slog out the whole four-hour duration in one unending sign barrage. However, because of this structure, The Pedestrian can begin to feel a little too samey, especially when the reward for completing a puzzle is almost always more puzzles. Even when presented with a larger puzzle, it’s still broken down into several smaller sections, which certainly makes them easier to comprehend. The Pedestrian serves out these scenarios in bite-sized pieces.
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Having to manage a puzzle board full of different segments filled with switches, keys, and laser beams, among other things, and then literally having to manage time and space to reach a goal provides some surprisingly challenging and satisfying scenarios.
The concept moves you to start thinking about puzzles in a way that's almost akin to time travel. Sometimes resetting is necessary, especially if you hit a dead-end, but later you'll be able to freeze some signs to prevent them from resetting, keeping the elements there active for your next attempt. But there is overall a nice feeling that you are figuring out things on your own, in your own way.Įxtra difficulty lies in the fact that you can’t make most changes to the arrangement of your 2D platforming world without resetting other things-activated switches will deactivate, and key items will be lost, so you need to go in with a plan. Occasionally my solutions felt so chaotic that I wondered if they were the intended direction other times the puzzles felt intentionally crafted to lead me to certain results.
However, there's definitely a very godlike feel to the control it gives you. The process is not totally freeform, as doors and ladders on one panel will only connect to those on another if they are properly aligned, and there are often obstacles in the way that might impede a certain way of doing things. There’s a satisfaction in ordering the panels of a level in your own way, which then allows you to jump back in and complete the puzzle.
Rearranging the playing field adds a layer of complexity that will have you thinking about obstacles in two different ways for the majority of the experience.
Once you regain control of the person symbol, you can then use these new doorways to access the other signs to complete puzzles and move forward. You can run, jump, and climb with light platforming maneuvers to get to new areas, but the crux of The Pedestrian's puzzling comes from the ability to zoom out and rearrange the positions of the 2D signs and flat surfaces, creating doorways and new paths. In the background, blurred into obscurity, are the beautiful 3D landscapes of the world they exist in. In taking control of a human figure (either with or without a dress) your adventure in The Pedestrian is mostly confined to various street signs, blueprints, and other 2D surfaces. What do those little human figures get up to when no-one is around? If The Pedestrian is to be believed, the answer is 2D platforming, solving lots and lots of puzzles, and taking control of electrical devices in an attempt to escape their confines. Such thinking spawned mythos like fairies in people’s gardens, borrowers, and the Toy Story saga, and now we come to street signs. It’s human nature to be curious about what seemingly mundane and inanimate things get up to while we’re not looking.
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