A minor annoyance compared to other aspects of the game, sure, but detrimental to my overall experience. So when I logged back in I had to run through the puzzles all over again. Unfortunately, the checkpoint didn’t trigger when I successfully completed the puzzles and listened to the important dialogue it would have happened as soon as I walked outside. I wanted to resume playing from a point where I knew I would be relatively safe. I learned this the hard way when I solved all the puzzles in a room and chose to log out before walking outside. There is no manual save option at all, which can hamper your progress and willingness to continue at certain points.
Moons of Madness also suffers from checkpoint-only saves. There is no real sense of urgency when Shane “runs” aside from the tendrils that curl around the edge of the screen and that really puts a damper on the overall experience.
Or in less crass terms, mall-walking speed. Running isn’t running it’s walking just fast enough so that you make it to the bathroom before you crap your pants. While you may not need to run often, when you do, it feels like the developers unnecessarily reduced what you would consider a proper run speed in order to fit their suspense-focused agenda. My biggest gripe has to do with Shane’s movement speed. Hell, even the circuitry puzzles can be solved by randomly rotating squares until the right connections are made. Of these puzzles, almost every one of them is fairly easy to solve reading logs or just looking around the room tends to provide any answers you need nothing that really makes you have to think too hard. Horror fans will instinctively feel the story beats, knowing when the jumps are coming as well as the lulls.Ī good bit of Moons of Madness is spent solving puzzles, whether those be tuning the correct frequencies or figuring out the right path through a maze. And the story is a decent one, even if a bit predictable. A good deal of the story is tucked away as computer entries, but you’ll get the gist from Shane’s monologues and interactions with the rest of Invictus’ crew members. Using your wits and items found about Invictus, Moons of Madness is one part exploration and two parts puzzle-solving. If he can just make it to the resupply ship en route to Mars, maybe, just maybe, Shane can escape. At the end of his nightmare is a birthday cake and a frightening figure, a precursor to the horrors Shane will discover come morning.
On the eve of his birthday, Shane’s sleep is interrupted and he leaves his room to discover strange vines growing throughout the base. Your character, Shane Newehart, is the base’s technician. The Invictus is a Martian high tech research base owned and operated by a secretive private company.
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