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Waiit review - A fast-paced but frustrating puzzler

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Waiit review - A fast-paced but frustrating puzzler
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Waiit isn't content with giving you one block to shift and slide through its maze of barriers. No, in this puzzler, you have to manage two, in a test of quick assessment and fast-paced challenges.

While the relentless pace may frustrate, you'll find a solid spatial puzzler to enjoy underneath.

Upward momentum

Waiit offers a challenge that's simple to grasp but tricky to master: you must guide two cubes simultaneously, each linked to the other, as the level slowly crumbles away. Swipe one cube and the other follows its movement.

However, you must guide the cubes to the correctly colored exits, adding an extra layer of difficulty. Suddenly, Waiit isn't merely a game of quickly moving around walls to head steadily upward. You need to swipe blocks around with purpose, looking ahead and studying where to place each block when.

Under pressure

That need to swipe with purpose and always be looking at what lies ahead is where both Waiit's difficulty and frustration lies. Your endless puzzling is on a time limit, forced to keep moving ahead of the crumbling lower rows of the screen.

While a game like Quell or similar puzzlers give you time to study the level, plan the best route to avoid dead ends, you have no such luxury in Waiit.

This ticking clock grants Waiit a tension and intensity that such these kinds of puzzle games usually lack, but it also means a poorly planned swipe can lead to unavoidable failure, as your attempts to course-correct often collides with the encroaching bottom of the screen.

Thankfully, a game in Waiit is quick to restart, giving it an arcade game's one-more-go pacing. You expect to fail eventually in endless games, but that notion sometimes feels at odds with Waiit's block-swiping puzzles.

Waiit review - A fast-paced but frustrating puzzler

A simple puzzler whose arcade pacing challenges and frustrates in equal measure
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Christian Valentin
Christian Valentin
Christian always had a interest in indie games and loves to give the games that so easily go unnoticed the attention they deserve