It's also not made very clear that you can scroll up to see the top part of the screen. It also hides parts of the screen that you need to see clearly to solve a puzzle. Sure, these bizarre conundrums can lead to some eureka moments where you smack yourself on the head because the solution was right in front of you the whole time, but for the most part you'll be smacking yourself on the head in pure frustration.Īnd that pervading darkness doesn't just obscure the game's funky Burton-esque visuals. The problem with Bulb Boy is in the puzzles, which hearken back to the obtuse and obscure nonsense we though we'd left behind in the mid 90s. That's a nice workaround from hiring expensive voice actors to record every line. The audio is a right treat, however, thanks to some scene-setting music and the gibberish noises you hear when characters speak.
You simply can't make them out a lot of the time, and that's a shame. It's a shame that everything's just a little too dark, though, as that detracts from the serious work put into the visuals. Much like in Burton's work it's grim and horrific in places, but it never feels uncomfortably so - even when things seriously heat up later in the game. Let's start with the good stuff - Bulb Boy looks like it was ripped right out of the Tim Burton cartoon scrapheap. It's just a shame that that includes the game's point-and-click puzzles.
Bulb Boy is a game about horrifying monsters.
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