Hideo Kojima would be proud.īut the final thing about Viewfinder that really tied the whole game together was its wonderful rewind feature. That framing device is also even more prescient in 2023 than the developers had probably intended, so kudos to them for that. Without spoilers, I really dug this overall structure, and it provided a nice anchor to the brain-teasers in the same way that GLaDOS did in Portal or the arc of the relationship did in Maquette. While I was sold on the game after its aforementioned demo a few months back, that small slice left out the core framing device in which all of these puzzles exist. In an era where so many games feel padded out and peak far too early, Viewfinder never ran out of momentum, which is another thing it has in common with the original Portal. And while that runtime might seem short to some of you, I for one was thrilled at Viewfinder’s brevity. But as I inched forward throughout its five-hour campaign, I was in constant awe of how the team kept bringing fresh ideas to the core concept of perspective. This was all shown off in the demo a few months back, and I honestly thought that this was where the limits of Viewfinder’s puzzles would stretch.
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