Lumino City is one of a kind puzzle game, where the devs are making sure you have the best experience in visual quality so much, they had to make all the level miniature IRL just to achieve that!
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Visual is what the game excels at. Despite coming to mobile a long while ago, the graphics is incomparable to Anything you've seen. This is because the game actually use a miniature the devs and artists have built in real life, use some camera magic and cinematography, then use sprite overlay with shadows and everything, to finally show you the very iconic visual of Lumino City.
Any small or big scale scenes in the game is made so carefully and so cleanly it really blends in reality with video game graphics. They even go as far as making sure all shadows in the game perfectly casted by the in-game characters too. Small details such as reflections of the characters too visible from the real life objects!
And thanks to all being a real thing, no big Performace needed to enjoy graphics like this. No need graphics quality or uncapped fps at all. Just forget all that and believe me your phone, whatever is that, can enjoy maximum eye-feast.
I like when every puzzle in the game is made meticulously with touch control in hand. all movement can be done with a tap, all puzzles are very optimized for touch, and generally nothing is too small or too big in this small screen form factor.
The puzzle itself? Well it's dynamic and get more complex as the story progresses. Believe me when something as small as just power button needs some kind of puzzle to actually use it. But the puzzle never repeats, the search scope isn't too big, And best of all, it teaches you as the game progress. A little bit about module-coding, Morse code, cryptography, and social skills. It's all very intriguing and if you ever stuck, the game has Built in tutorial that's packed neatly in a 1000 pages book. (I think this is a very good design you see. They don't ask any ads, or paying token for help. They simply make the book this way to encourage you that all the answers are already in the levels itself. You just have to connect the dots. If you can't, then you need to scour through the book finding the pages that tells you the answer for the puzzle)
The entire set and story is charming. The people are unique and dum dum in their own ways. And yeah it keeps me going that I just can't stop playing this.
And after around 6 hours the game is completed! It can be quicker if you open the book too often. Which I really suggest not to. Because the game detail is main feature of this. All the dialog is cringe in a funny way, because your character is the sane one here. And the sets are diverse to give you best in gaining knowledge on how to finish the puzzles.
There are many scenes. Many many more if you want to get all the achievement. Which is very worth it because those achievement is for you who when come across a solution, you want to try out all the fails just to find a funny stuff hidden behind it. It's very me-oriented lol.
Conclusion:
Speaking how cheap the game is. I think it's no brainer. The game is so well made, and the developer made sure to appreciate you who looks on all these small details the game offers.