it is certainly the cleverest, and most fun mod out there, not as atmospheric as MINERVA but you’ll have too much fun to care, all mods should aspire to be this good, so many clever puzzles and mechanics and filled with suprises. A little short maybe but saying you want more of something just shows how good it is!

So much thanks modders for making such thing. I loved it from the beggining to the very end.

9/10, -1 just for the little problems in car handling (personal opinion)

Mr. Bortolino I salute you. It has been an honor to play it. I hope you have more genius brewing!

It’s the shear continues puzzle solving effort that does not hold my attention and I just long for some mayhem, actions and typical Half Life adventure, some of the puzzles are far too complex for me and without help I would not got as far as I did. So I can’t say I enjoyed this mod such that I could not highly recommend it and for me it’s only a maybe.

Drop everything and play it now. There is research to be done!

Thanks for helping

Solving just puzzles and purely using your brain to advance – AND the phyisics engine but without the use of a single weapon at all, is fantastic. I wish there would be more mods like that. Awesome. I had a lot of fun and I’ve even played some puzzles a third or even a fourth time (right the first time I worked myself through the mod) just because it was so much fun. This is my personal favorite.

That being said, the mod could benefit from more extensive playtesting — there were times when I got stuck longer than was enjoyable, stuck not in “how to I do that” but “what am I supposed to do next?” I can’t blame the author in general for being obscure… there are usually plenty of arrows around to clue you in.

But a couple of places were obscure for me. Like, in the courtyard area with the rotating crane boom and the swinging walks. It would be helpful to know which thing to do first. Otherwise there are too many other possibilities to puzzle over at once. Also, the metal beam that’s key to a later step… I assumed it was immovable, since most of the other stuff lying around was; and when I tried to move it while standing on the ground, it seemed immovable. To re-try every possibly loose object after changing my own location seems tedious.Anyway, these are things that playtesting will reveal.

I also fell victim to the getting out-of-and-back-into-Mr-Whirly bug, even though I downloaded the version that was supposed to fix it. (Maybe I should have restarted Steam?) Thankfully I was able to use the console command workaround.

As I think someone else commented, there were a number of places where plausibility took a back seat to puzzle mechanics. E.g. barrels being unmovable for no apparent reason. But I know this can be a hard tension to resolve well, and I would rather enjoy a good puzzle than have it ruined or cut in order to stay plausible. However the solutions need to be physically plausible, otherwise the player has to just guess!

The above spills plenty of ink on what could be improved, but it bears repeating that I’m very impressed with this mod. The author is really inventive and obviously enjoyed playing around with new ideas, like the magnetic ladder. He also takes existing ideas and stretches them in fun new directions… like fighting off the gunship and helicopter with dropmines and those electric ball thingies. Even more rare is that the inventiveness is accompanied by artistry and care in developing environments.

I say, Valve hire him, put him in charge of a small team, give him guidance from someone with industry experience, and see how he can be empowered to produce great new, interesting stuff.

All in all the game was fun, had brilliant level design, neat theme, and worked well in practice.

Now don’t stand around reading these reviews, get to it! Download this brilliant mod and try it out now.