VIDEO: Semispheres Comes To Nintendo Switch This Thursday
A unique puzzler is making its way to the Switch this Thursday. Semispheres is billed as a meditative parallel puzzle game with synth music by Sid Barnhoorn, composer of The Stanley Parable. Check out the launch trailer below to try and get a grasp of how the game plays.
In Semispheres, each analogue stick controls a different avatar in environments that might initially appear identical but reveal profound differences crucial to progression. Portals allow the avatars to enter each other’s reality, creating fiendishly complex inter-dimensional puzzles, with success reliant on methodical planning and skilful execution. It’s not all esoteric brain workouts, though. Tension is introduced through the sentries that guard these worlds, whose fields of vision you must evade in order to find safe passage and the eventual resynchronisation of the worlds.
With fiendish puzzles that escalate in complexity, Semispheres presents a real challenge for both puzzle aficionados and newcomers to the genre alike. Yet the game’s beautiful audio and visual presentation ensure things never get too much, making it as soothing an experience as it is challenging.
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