Review of Cradle by Relic

This game holds your hand the entire time, to the point where there is no use in stacking objects where they are needed. They just respawn at there original locations when you leave the area, and you can’t do obvious things like install your solar panel and battery array until the game wants you too.  Plenty of information is lying around to read, so much so that the questions your avatar asks seem pointless and ignorant if you’ve read enough. The story and the graphics save the game. The mini-games nearly kill it,fortunately they can be skipped and despite there being 10 terminals you only have to use 4. Dying is frequent in the ‘amusement park’: falling from great heights, overcome by black clouds and occasionally just flung up in the air for no reason…not to mention trying to manipulate a power cable quickly enough as lighting strikes in the same place again and again.

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Time Played: 2-5 hours
Difficulty: Easy