First Impressions On: Q.U.B.E.

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Channel: Shadefyre · 2012 · Gaming

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[Released December 16, 2011]
In this episode of First Impressions, I take a look at the block-bending first-person puzzles of Q.U.B.E. (or Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion). The game is very light on story, essentially just throwing you into the puzzles with only the faintest of context. As you can likely guess from the title, the main mechanic of Q.U.B.E. revolves around using your special gloves to manipulate a variety of colored cubes with different properties in your cube filled surroundings. Unfortunately, the sparse sterility of the environment calls to mind shades of Portal's stark white test chambers, something unavoidable for a similar game in the emerging first-person puzzle game genre. However it is of note that the game is an expansion of a student project started by the founding members of developer Toxic Games, which received funding from The Indie Fund.

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