Welcome to our review of Perchang, a game that reminds me of the Rube Goldberg Machine but with a twist, your input matters instead of just letting it roll!
Puzzles, balls, and contraptions. Get the balls from emitter to goal So simple, yet so tricky
It’s a puzzle action strategy game with some lovely contraptions to really make you ponder. A beautifully balanced mix of difficulty and fun.
The game revolves around getting little balls from the emitter to their home in the goal. Blocking their way are a heap of obstacles and some helpful elements colored red or blue. So simple … yet so tricky.
This game just screams Rube Goldberg Machine in my humble opinion! Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The cartoons led to the expression “Rube Goldberg machines” to describe similar gadgets and processes. Reuben Lucius Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees’ Silver Lady Award in 1959.
His machines were contraptions were an object, like a ball, performed the most unusual and often useless tasks, all to get to its final destination and this is exactly where I draw the comparison with Perchang. Perchang is all about getting enough balls to the destination, whether by timed flips or by abusing a balance board. It is surprisingly addictive and I finished the first 20 levels in my first sitting with the game.
I just kept playing and not even look at the time of day it was, which turned out to be way past midnight on a working day and well, I hated myself the next morning due to my lack of sleep. The game is fun yet tricky. Timing must be right and before you know it, you just barely scrape by the level with a pass instead of a gold, silver or bronze score. All is time-related and there is also a limited amount of balls at your disposal.
This is all to make it harder on you in the later levels so you do not just skip out on the antics of the level and just “hope” you get them in eventually. You really need to properly focus and play the game right.
Graphically, Perchang is quite basic. There are no highly impressive graphics, but that is all fine. Graphics do not make the game, its gameplay, which is top-notch, makes the game! Would improved graphics actually improve the experience? I do not know, maybe if they fully represented one of those Japanese Rube Goldberg machines, but that is just my nostalgia speaking.
In conclusion, Perchang is a fun game and it is well worth giving a try. Do keep in mind that this game gets quite challenging along the way and while you can just wing it at first, in the later stages, you are presented with a true challenge. This challenge might make it too tough for the youngest among us? I did enjoy the game very much myself and its score is well deserved.
