Glass Masquerade Review ★★★☆☆

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Explanation to Negative Feedback

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Main screen is a lot

I mean, I can’t say I don’t know what they were thinking with how cluttered this UI looks, because the border and all that is super cool. But there’s so much on the screen it’s hard to figure out what to do exactly when you first enter the game.

Sure, you choose the circle of the puzzle you want, but then the play button kind of gets lost even though it’s right in front of you.

I think it’s the fact that it all looks kind of the same with the general colorization.

Do we even need all the nonsense on the screen? The cog-looking corner pieces on the borders, the different miniature puzzle images on the bottom of the screen, the giant freaking puzzle layout on the left (which is cool to see as a preview mind you).

It’s just a lot.

Not many easy difficulties

There are different levels of difficulty for each puzzle, indicated by the circles that are filled in on the bar below the title of the puzzle’s name. For instance, Egypt has a difficulty of 4 out of 5.

But there’s barely any 1 star difficulties, if any.

For the most part, they’re all either 4 or 5 on the difficulty scale and it’s a bit weird to even have the scale at that point. Just let us do the puzzles and if they’re simple they’re simple and if they’re difficult they’re difficult.

Not that the puzzles are all difficult, because some of them are fairly easy despite having a higher rating.

It’s weird.

Only 25 puzzles

This is the base game, and out of 50 puzzles total, it only has 25 available, meaning in order to open up the other puzzles for completion, you’ll have to get the rest of the DLC.

I kind of hate that.

I kind of wish they’d let us have our 50 puzzles, and then the DLC would open up new sections.

But, that’s not how they wanted to go about it. So you get half of everything for the base game.

Pieces don’t always pick up

You can either click and drag a puzzle piece to the area you want to place it, or you can click on the piece and then click again to place it down.

The problem is if you click on a puzzle piece on the far side and move your mouse too quickly, it lets go of the piece. This happened so many times to me, that it was almost always better to click and drag.

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Explanation to Positive Feedback

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Clock hands fade out

The clock hands for each puzzle are constantly moving, which is cool, because every clock face for the puzzles are different and unique looking. But you don’t have to worry when picking up pieces to place down, because the clock hands will fade out so you can see where the piece might go a bit easier.

I’m happy they did it like this, otherwise the clock hands would get in the way and become an additional burden.

Starting pieces

You can choose to have starting pieces for each puzzle in the settings.

Basically, we all know when starting a new puzzle, you’ll want to do the edge pieces first, because that’s the easiest part, and then we work our way in from there. These jigsaw puzzles may have funky sides to them, and so each puzzle offers you a placement for a certain amount of pieces to get you started.

This is kind of for an easier head start.

For anyone wanting more of a challenge can turn this off and just figure out where everything goes from the get-go.

Beautiful stained glass artwork

The best part of the game and what attracted my attention the most toward it. A lot of puzzle games just have a regular image you’re piecing together, but with this game, they’re stained glass art and the pieces you pick up have a lighting effect which makes it all the better.

It’s really gorgeous, every piece you put together.