As players become more familiar with the various machine parts and their functions, the puzzles become more sophisticated and challenging. The player's job is to use the pieces in the correct way to complete the machine. Each puzzle contains a partially built machine and the extra pieces needed to complete it and accomplish the goal. The pedigree is there, and if you’re as old as me, it’ll poke the nostalgia node in your brain and remind you of playing in younger days.Return of The Incredible Machine allows players to use unique, sometimes humorous mechanical components to construct fantastic machines that accomplish unusual tasks. I honestly don’t think you can go wrong with either, and the level editor in Casey’s Contraptionsmight have it win the race by a nose,but my personal preference between the two is going to have to side with The Incredible Machine. It’s just unfortunate that they were released so close together that you can’t but compare them head to head. You’ve heard me compare Casey’s Contraptions and The Incredible Machine a few times in this review, and it’s not because these are the only two games like this ever released. The touch screen, drag and drop gameplay is the perfect place to bring back this PC classic, and as someone that spent untold hours playing the original, I can attest that the spirit and fun of that earlier release is well intact. Through a manner of happenstance, all these years later he’s returned to bring the seminal series to the iPad. That’s because there was a PC game back in the mid-90’s of the same name made by a guy named Jeff Tunnell. The Incredible Machine may sound a bit familar to those you in your late 20’s or later. If anything, Casey‘s was inspired the The Incredible Machine. It’s not a matter or copying or cloning though just because this title came out second.
Yes, The Incredible Machine is extremely like the aforementioned Casey’s Contraptions. It’s no fun having all these gadgets and knowing there’s only one exact way you have to use them.
Having these different ways to come to the correct conclusion in this type of game is essential. There were more than a few times over the course of the game where I was well on my way to my selected solution, moving around pipes and what-not to line up some long winded series of events only to make one or two small “mistakes” that led me to solving the puzzle in some entirely different way. This is key, since the last thing you want while trying to get all these pieces to work together onscreen is something that just doesn’t work like it should. The objectives are made clear, and the physics governing the world are consistent and make total sense.
Luckily you never feel like the game is working against you. You’ll be making small adjustments to your items to get closer and closer the eventual solution. Sound like it’s a lot of trial and error? Well, it is.
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