Paper Path is a puzzle sport which takes a easy premise, folding and unfolding paper, to create a novel expertise. You play from the attitude of Paige, a younger girl who leaves house to pursue her educational goals while assembly some bizarre characters alongside the way in which.
One of many first stuff you’ll discover about Paper Trails is its lovely artwork type. The distinctive environments and vibrant character designs look incredible, and the soundtrack additionally does a fantastic job of setting the temper of this curious world. Every degree is a bit of paper which has a back and front to it. You’ll be capable to fold elements of the paper over to create new paths and permit Paige to go by way of.
This distinctive mechanic is straightforward to start with, solely requiring a couple of steps to progress, however the puzzles shortly enhance in complexity. It received’t be lengthy earlier than you’ll even have to think about how you can transfer obstacles across the map or use lights and switches to lift bridges and open doorways. Every new mechanic offers an fascinating hurdle to beat, and so they’re launched at a price which retains the puzzles feeling recent.
For those who ever get fully stumped then there’s a helpful trace system which exhibits you, fold-by-fold, how you can remedy every degree. Nevertheless it solely exhibits you the order you have to be making the folds, so that you’ll nonetheless must work out how you can transfer the assorted obstacles round.
A very nice contact is that the sport makes nice use of the DualSense adaptive triggers. The L2 & R2 triggers present extra resistance in the event you attempt to transfer a little bit of paper that Paige or an impediment is on. It’s a intelligent method of letting you understand when you possibly can’t do one thing and it’s at all times nice when builders make use of those sorts of options.
Paper Path is an enthralling sport with an fascinating and distinctive puzzle mechanic. The story doesn’t fairly attain the emotional highs that we had been anticipating however it’s nonetheless a candy coming-of-age story set in a beautiful world complemented by a fantastically atmospheric soundtrack.
