Apple Arcade - Inmost (2019) [/]
Mar 27 2023
Inmost is a side-scrolling puzzle platformer where you play three characters:
The man - this is your main character exploring the world and unlocking secrets.
The girl - some cut scenes involve a girl playing games in her family's house and also discovering secrets.
The knight - action cut scenes where you are the sword wielding, grappling hook using knight killing shadows.
There is a woman narrating (with text so you can always read what's being said) which is a nice touch.
The puzzles are mostly wandering around hitting spots where you can't continue but it tells you what item you need. When you find that item you can backtrack to the revealed spots. For the most part you can keep going forward as most revealed spots lead to pain shards and notes you can collect. Each note is a kid's picture with some meaning to the story.
The pain shards (up to 80 and I found 65 sometimes using a walkthrough) let you talk to a storyteller who gives a story about a witch and visitors and why the castle came to be. The castle is a significant part of the map and you slowly climb up along the side until you can break into it but turns out there's not like anything vital inside just the path to the next part of the map.
There are shadow creatures to avoid or kill. Many are killed by manipulating the environment or baiting them to jump off the edge (the man has no weapons ever and the girl never encounters any shadows). Other than areas you can't get to without an item and the shadows there aren't any other hindrances. Sometimes there are small puzzles: some shadows are tricky to kill or some object has to be manipulated just right. It's not a hard-puzzles game.
It took me about 15 hours to finish. I used a controller and things played fine. Touch might be harder as there are some action scenes. I did use a walkthrough for a few parts where I couldn't figure out how to progress (usually I gave it 10 or so minutes of wandering around before I gave up). Overall it's a mostly fun game though I guess not exceptional.
The man - this is your main character exploring the world and unlocking secrets.
The girl - some cut scenes involve a girl playing games in her family's house and also discovering secrets.
The knight - action cut scenes where you are the sword wielding, grappling hook using knight killing shadows.
There is a woman narrating (with text so you can always read what's being said) which is a nice touch.
The puzzles are mostly wandering around hitting spots where you can't continue but it tells you what item you need. When you find that item you can backtrack to the revealed spots. For the most part you can keep going forward as most revealed spots lead to pain shards and notes you can collect. Each note is a kid's picture with some meaning to the story.
The pain shards (up to 80 and I found 65 sometimes using a walkthrough) let you talk to a storyteller who gives a story about a witch and visitors and why the castle came to be. The castle is a significant part of the map and you slowly climb up along the side until you can break into it but turns out there's not like anything vital inside just the path to the next part of the map.
There are shadow creatures to avoid or kill. Many are killed by manipulating the environment or baiting them to jump off the edge (the man has no weapons ever and the girl never encounters any shadows). Other than areas you can't get to without an item and the shadows there aren't any other hindrances. Sometimes there are small puzzles: some shadows are tricky to kill or some object has to be manipulated just right. It's not a hard-puzzles game.
It took me about 15 hours to finish. I used a controller and things played fine. Touch might be harder as there are some action scenes. I did use a walkthrough for a few parts where I couldn't figure out how to progress (usually I gave it 10 or so minutes of wandering around before I gave up). Overall it's a mostly fun game though I guess not exceptional.