![]() Just when I think I’ve grasped the logic of the world, something changes - my perspective shifts - and the uneasiness of infinity settles in again. Anyone who enjoyed Portal or Portal 2 may have some understanding of the sort of thinking required to solve Manifold Garden’s puzzles.Įarly puzzles are meant to teach me the way the garden works more than challenge me, but puzzles become more complex as Manifold Garden opens up. ![]() But it’s not as simple as picking up the block and moving it to its gate blocks are locked to their respective color planes, and I must manipulate gravity to get it where it needs to go. Elsewhere, there’s a door to unlock, powered by a receptacle where I’m to plug in the correctly colored block. The objective is often immediately clear when entering an area: I see the trees, growing their blocks. The blocks are each associated with a color, depending on what tree they’re pulled from. Blocks grow like apples from geometric trees dotted across the world, and it’s these blocks that are the keys to the world. Manifold Garden isn’t a garden in the traditional sense. The game can be finished in up to six hours, although time starts to have less meaning the more you dig in. I learn more about the world and its story with each new garden I reach, although the specifics are often more implied than explicitly explained. Doing so rids the world of an implied corruption that’s taking over, represented by dark clouds that obscure parts of Manifold Garden’s geometry. ![]() And I mean this in a literal sense: With a click, the wall becomes the floor and a new world opens up to explore.įrom there, I continue to play with gravity to solve the game’s puzzles. I have to shift perspective by activating a different plane, which changes my view. My expectations of how things are supposed to work are broken down by the game’s mechanics. Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
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