Find You

Every puzzle game is ultimately about your ability to find answers to riddles and make use of the gameplay mechanics in order to put your ideas into practice. Some games make it easier by providing you with hints and guides, as it the case with the casual HOPA genre, but the truly hardcore titles challenge you to figure everything out without any help whatsoever.

Find You is an interesting puzzle-platformer in which the goal is to help a handful of characters overcome platforming obstacles and unite into a single entity in order to clear the levels. The hard part is that your input affects every character as once, and they may be facing different directions, which requires good coordination and the ability to take a variety of factors into consideration at the same time.

There are one hundred stages included in the game, and they gradually get more difficult as you manage to pass them. You only have to deal with two characters and basic obstacles at first, but things get really tough once other types of traps are added to the mix, not to mention the fact that you have to keep an eye on three or four characters at once.

Frustration is something you have to fight against over the course of the game, especially since the tiniest mistake means that you have to repeat the whole level. It doesn’t take long to figure out the mechanics, but every level poses a unique challenge, and sometimes it’s difficult to come up with a solution. To make things worse, the level design is about as basic as it can get, which can make the whole thing feel repetitive.

The basic graphics are not really a huge issue in the genre, especially since you are mostly concerned with the puzzles most of the time, but it can sometimes feel like there’s no variety at all. Thankfully, at least the controls are responsive and well implemented, so you do not have to fight your keyboard or the gamepad in order to make the characters do what you want.

Find You is more of a substitute for crosswords instead of a memorable video game, because it doesn’t bring anything new in terms of mechanics, graphics or story. Thus, it’s just a great way to exercise your problem-solving skills.