An entertaining feature Instance – Her interesting visual style. To create entire levels, only the most necessary colors, the simplest forms and types of objects are used. Audio does not lag behind – only the necessary sounds, at least superfluous, the uniqueness of the design from this does not disappear. But in addition to the style, there should also be a gameplay – a common truth, which we are going to check now.
Neon clones
Do not look for depths and philosophical subtext here. Instance takes one intriguing idea, managing to attract the attention of the player for a certain period of time. There is a character (judging by the figure, this is a girl), the study of his image is very schematic (all for the sake of style). The character moves from left to right, occasionally – up and down. The variety of steps, platforms and niches implies movement against all laws of physics. But the developers decided to go even further. Instead of those who are captivating their inaccuracy, they decided to resort to primitive cloning. We cannot say that the essence of this process claims to be simplicity, but in the game it is displayed with a browned division of the character into two equal individuals. In total, up to four figures can be present on the screen. All of them solve the tasks tied on the movement. Clones help to press the levers, climb unprecedented heights, move the platforms and ultimately move forward to the end of the level.
Added clones repeat all movements behind their direct ancestor. When, say, the first individual moves to the right of the umpry, then all the other copies do the same with the adjustment for the situation. That is, if three copies manage to run, and the fourth has a wall in the way, then it will run in place, resting against the obstacle.
Here we have come to the third distinguishing feature Instance (the first two, recall, are visual style and troubles with cloning) – synchronism of the movements of all clones. This circumstance
significantly narrows the open spaces of your imagination.
But there is nothing more here. Instance – This is a game with an interesting, but not claiming originality to the visual style. With the clones of the main character, from which you can get rid of the movement. We will foresee that you will not play all this for long.
Outwardly a well -decorated platformer in fact turned out to be a non -claiming dummy. Gameplay mechanics with “copying” of the protagonist is very quickly boring, and even well-designed levels are not able to correct anything.
Pros: a restrained minimalist style;The cloning process at first amuses a little.
Cons: as in many such cases, the game very quickly exhausts itself and bothers.