Small Radios Big Televisions

Small Radios Big Televisions

PlayStation 4 - World - Digital cover.

Developer Fire Face Publisher Adult Swim Published 2016-11-08 Platforms PlayStation 4, Windows Genres Adventure, Exploration room, Graphic adventure, Passive puzzle, Puzzle Themes Surreal Distribution Commercial

Small Radios Big Televisions is a surreal puzzle video game developed by Fire Face and published by Adult Swim for PlayStation 4 and Windows in 2016-11-08.

The game uses a combination of hidden objects, basic labyrinths, and logic puzzles spanning five levels. Each level contains a number of cassette tapes on which small virtual worlds are stored. Inside each virtual world is a green dodecahedron which will unlock a door, but the dodecahedrons are often hidden and the tapes must be corrupted with electromagnets to discover them.

Personal

Own?	Yes. On Steam with soundtrack.
Won?	Yes. All levels, all lenses, missing 3 tapes.
Finished	2018‎-11-01.

I bought this game as part of a Humble Bundle. The screenshots looked pretty cool, so I played the game. I found it interesting enough to play to completion.

Review

5	5	5	5	4

Best Version: Windows

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• A lot of the virtual worlds are very interesting to look at.
• The game is a bit too homogeneous. The length is okay, but you're doing mostly the same thing the whole time.

Bad

• The second level has a strange puzzle which requires demagnetizing the same tapes twice, but on different magnets, which doesn't make much sense.
• I don't understand a couple of the spigot puzzles in level 4. Even after I solved them, I wasn't sure why I won.
• The game seems to have a story, but it doesn't make much sense.

Ugly

• Nothing.

Media

Box Art

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  The digital cover is a combination between the tape player in the game and one of the virtual worlds. It looks nice, but it doesn't give you an idea of what the game will be like.

Videos

Longplay - PS4.

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	There are no characters.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There are no characters.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	There are no characters.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no characters.

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