A singular journey by the attention of the beholder.
The Grasp’s Pupil is a simple, puzzle-platformer that locations a powerful give attention to its visible design. Your complete recreation consists of hand-painted components by designer Pat Naoum that intertwine with the work of classical artist Claude Monet. It forgoes complicated shaders to as an alternative present a crisp, clear, and uncomplicated presentation.
The expertise performs out as a 2D platformer, with the participant’s solely company being motion and leaping. Choose gadgets will be pushed by operating into them, however the platforming by no means will get extra complicated than that. As an alternative, The Grasp’s Pupil presents problem in puzzles. Most of those revolve round bringing a coloured object to a blockade of the identical coloration. This object may very well be a small ball that should be rolled by hazards, and even you your self by mixing colours onto your character. For instance, to get by a blue barrier you might must coat your self in a spout that sprays the colour blue, with out by chance passing by one other spraying crimson, lest you wind up purple. The range of difficult puzzles pulled from a comparatively restricted set of variables is really spectacular, and I by no means received uninterested in the puzzles or felt like I used to be repeating the identical one.
As you play, the story of Monet’s life is informed fully by subtext. The participant is actually traversing the pupil of Monet’s eye, as he slowly loses his eyesight to the very limitations you’re desperately attempting to avoid. A few of The Grasp’s Pupil’s greatest moments are when by fixing a puzzle, you’re actually doing one thing to finish one in all Monet’s work, by which you’ll traverse as you proceed by the sport. At one level, I guided a big ball by a stage solely to seek out on the very finish that it had been the solar in one in all Monet’s work.
When The Grasp’s Pupil lands good, it is outstanding. That being stated, you’ll spend a number of time in very comparable environments. It is smart given the context of the story being informed, however it may possibly make progress really feel a bit much less substantial. I additionally encountered a number of puzzles the place I used to be in a position to transfer into an primarily unwinnable place, forcing me to restart the puzzle from the menu. Nonetheless, it’s laborious to not fall in love with what seems like an interactive, biographical artwork gallery. The methods through which Monet’s work are intertwined into ranges solely will get higher as the sport goes on, leading to a easy however distinctive journey.