Way again withinside the fall of 2012 developer Black Pants Game Studio launched their debut name on iOS, a common sense puzzler known as About Love, Hate, and the Other It become a tale approximately characters, one named Love and one named Hate, who by chance shipping themselves right into a atypical international through urgent a huge purple To be fair, who wouldn’t press a huge purple button in the event that they got here throughout it? At its maximum simple, the sport is ready getting both Love or Hate to the huge purple button on the quit of every degree with the cappotential to change which person you’re controlling at the fly.
These ranges are full of different atypical characters too, actually the Other Ones withinside the name, and whilst gambling as Love you may command an Other One to stroll in the direction of you, and whilst gambling as Hate you may repel an Other One farfar from you. While there may be a few versions to those simple mechanics through manner of the unique capabilities of the Other Ones, you’ll typically want to direct the Other Ones in a degree to positions that permit both Love or Hate to securely make it to the huge purple button. The common sense puzzle layout is stable and the sport is fascinating as all heck with its person designs, animations, sounds, and little lively cutscenes.
That’s loads of phrases to speak approximately a recreation that’s now no longer even the sport I’m attempting to speak approximately for this precise Game of the Week post, however in spring of closing yr Black Pants launched a sequel to About Love, Hate, and the Other Ones on Steam, and whilst the primary recreation become launched on iOS first and made its manner to PC multiple years after, this sequel has long past in opposite as this week it’s far simply now to be had on iOS after being on PC for the higher a part of a yr. Whatever the order of the release, I’m simply glad this sequel, known as sincerely About Love and Hate 2 ($2.99), has made its manner domestic to cell. I additionally spent a lot time explaining the primary recreation due to the fact essentially all of that applies to About Love and Hate 2 too.
The huge alternate this time round is that the sport is in 3D, and that’s now no longer simply a flowery visible improve however the ranges themselves are in 3 dimensions. The unique recreation become all on a 2D aircraft so now you’ll want to suppose a lot extra spatially whilst figuring out a way to order round and function your Other Ones. Speaking of which, there’s a gaggle of recent Other Ones as nicely with a gaggle of recent gameplay mechanics to clearly take a look at your common sense perplexing capabilities.
The unique About Love, Hate, and the Other Ones become a cell puzzler from a easier time, wherein you can simply fork over a couple of dollars in trade for a gaggle of nicely-crafted ranges and that become that. No day by day log-in bonuses, no consumable unique items, no lots of ranges with choppy trouble spikes. Thankfully About Love and Hate 2 is reduce from that equal fabric and it’s so clean to select out up a recreation for a unmarried set fee with a healthful quantity of difficult ranges and the form of polish and attraction that could best come from a developer who’s enthusiastic about their craft. If you revel in puzzlers then take a experience again to the “Good Old Days” of cell gaming with About Love and Hate 2.