It's the wasted potential that hurts the most. Armikrog begins with a catchy song, a gorgeous claymation planet, and a hero facing off against a wonderfully designed monster with a tongue so long that its mouth comes fitted with a winch. It's imaginative! Beautifully made! Exciting! Creative! Lots of other enthusiastic exclamation marks! You may have seen it already. All of this was in the Kickstarter pitch video, which not too surprisingly helped the developers raise a cool million dollars.
The Armikrog we eventually got - the whole tedious thing - consists of walking around an almost entirely empty fortress, solving incredibly turgid logic puzzles, and often doing so in near-silence because the background music seems to decide at random when it's going to put in an appearance. Four minutes of crowd-funded optimism leads to about four hours of sub-Myst level dreck.
Not only is this one of the dullest adventure games in ages, it's also the kind that makes you question if anyone involved has ever even played one - including its spiritual predecessor, The Neverhood. It's almost impressive how poor it is as an experience, with only very occasional moments where the clay backgrounds are used as interesting scenery instead of just simple rooms full of random floopydoop, or a place to put floating sigils needed for the main puzzles.
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