{"id":2888,"date":"2022-01-07T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2021-11-02T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:48:10","slug":"video-game-q-u-b-e-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/07\/video-game-q-u-b-e-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Q.U.B.E. 2 (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Q.U.B.E.Q.U.B.E. 2
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018
\nRating: T
\nTime Played: ~5 hours<\/p>\n

Q.U.B.E. 2<\/em> is one of those random games that I decided to play on a whim. Fortunately, it was free to me as a perk of having Amazon Prime. After completing this game, I don’t think I would have paid for it otherwise. I knew nothing about this game going in, but it was at least interesting enough for me to see it all the way through to the end. That being said, it’s a bit derivative of other first-person physics puzzle games that came before it.<\/p>\n

The more first-person physics puzzle games I play, the more I realize that Portal 2<\/em> is the definitive game in this genre. This is mostly because other games tend to rip off on Portal 2<\/em>, and Q.U.B.E. 2<\/em> is one of these ripoffs. While Q.U.B.E. 2<\/em> <\/em>takes itself seriously in the narrative it runs through the game (as compared to Portal 2<\/em>‘s occasional humor), the stakes never seem to match the vibe the game is trying to produce. Perhaps it’s trying to be brooding like Control<\/em>, but the fact that it’s just a physics puzzle game means that its goal is to just string together a series of puzzles until the end of the game.<\/p>\n

In terms of difficulty, Q.U.B.E. 2<\/em>‘s puzzles were never too hard to complete. A few definitely required me to perform a few attempts before figuring out the gimmick, but then that gimmick would be re-used at least four more times. If anything, the repetitive nature of the puzzles is what wore on me after a while, even if the environment changed a few times during the gameplay. The fact that I kept having to “unlock” the next area by completing a quartet of different puzzles was boring after the third or fourth area.<\/p>\n

A generic physics puzzler that takes itself too seriously, I give Q.U.B.E. 2<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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