GP writer Marcus Estrada reviews Kairo on PC.
Indie Developer Locked Door Puzzle are planning to bring two of their titles to PlayStation Vita. The three-person studio is currently in talks with Sony to create Vita versions of the atmospheric Kairo, and the upcoming Journal.
Its interesting that lately a few indie devs have started looking into PSV development. Hope this keeps upm and hopefully the bigger publishers start looking at releasing some more software for the device.
For some, Myst wasn’t engrossing so much as dull and frustrating. Unfortunately, a great swath of the remainder of the gaming community apparently had their hearts and minds not so much touched as squeezed with extreme force by Myst until more games of its ilk issued forth in a great deluge. One such game is recent first-person indie adventure Kairo.
Something common in this type of games is the lack of an objective, a line conductor to tell us whether we are on track or not. But it is also showing that these are not really games, but examples of interactive media that give us the possibility to freely explore an environment and the transformations that our actions cause in the world.
The world of Kairo is made from several interconnected locations and strange architecture. The story is never explained, is a world about which we know nothing much at the beginning and at the end, which further enhances the mystery that surrounds it. The only goal is just exploring and solving some puzzles. Each room has a puzzle that is usually necessary to solve to continue the game and usually involve manipulating an object in the world of Kairo. It can be something as simple as dragging a block to something more complex such as recognizing patterns, but in general are not very challenging.
