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This is a short review of the base game for Glass Masquerade. It is a family friendly puzzle game featuring 25 stained glass tiles you'll have to piece together for different regions of the world.
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Hello everyone and welcome to a pros and
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cons of the video game glass masquerade.
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On not now mom, I'm gaming. These are
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short videos featuring all my little
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nitpicks and pleasantries with having
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played the game while sustaining a bare
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minimum of spoilers. My Patreon features
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storytime segments for this game. If you
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know, you know. Let the reviewing begin.
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Pros:
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Clock hands fade out.
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The clock hands for each puzzle are
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constantly moving, which is cool because
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every clock face for the puzzles are
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different and unique looking. But you
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don't have to worry when picking up
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pieces to place down because the clock
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hands will fade out so you can see where
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the piece might go a bit easier. I'm
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happy they did it like this. Otherwise,
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the clock hands will get in the way and
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become an additional burden,
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starting pieces.
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You can choose to have starting pieces
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for each puzzle in the settings.
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Basically, we all know when starting a
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new puzzle, you want to do the edge
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pieces first because that's the easiest
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part, and then we work our way in from
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there. These jigsaw puzzles may have
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funky sides to them, and so each puzzle
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offers you a placement for a certain
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amount of pieces to get you started.
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This is kind of for an easier head
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start. For anyone wanting more of a
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challenge, they can turn this off and
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just figure out where everything goes
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from the get- go.
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Beautiful stained glass artwork.
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the best part of the game and what
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attracted my attention the most toward
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it. A lot of puzzle games just have a
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regular image you're piecing together,
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but with this game, they're stained
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glass art and the pieces you pick up
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have a lighting effect which makes it
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all the better. It's really gorgeous.
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every piece you put together.
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Cons:
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Main screen is a lot. I mean, I can't
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say I don't know what they were thinking
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with how cluttered this UI looks because
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the border and all that is super cool,
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but there's so much on the screen, it's
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hard to figure out what to do exactly
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when you first enter the game. Sure, you
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choose a circle of the puzzle you want,
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but then the play button kind of gets
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lost even though it's right there in
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front of you. I think it's the fact it
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all looks kind of the same with the
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general colorization.
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Do we even need all the nonsense on the
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screen? The cog looking corner pieces on
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the borders, the different miniature
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puzzle images on the bottom of the
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screen, the giant freaking puzzle layout
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on the left, which is cool to see as a
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preview, mind you. It's just a lot.
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Not many easy difficulties.
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There are different levels of difficulty
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for each puzzle, indicated by the
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circles that are filled in on the bar
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below the title of the puzzle's name.
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For instance, Egypt has a difficulty of
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four out of five. But there's barely any
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onestar difficulties, if any. For the
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most part, they're all either four or
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five on the difficulty scale. And it's a
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bit weird to even have the scale at that
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point. Just do the puzzles and if
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they're simple, they're simple. And if
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they're difficult, they're difficult.
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Not that the puzzles are all difficult
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because some of them are fairly easy
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despite having a higher rating. It's
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weird.
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Only 25 puzzles. This is the base game
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and out of 50 puzzles total, it only has
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25 available. Meaning in order to open
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up the other puzzles for completion,
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you'll have to get the rest of the DLC.
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I kind of hate that. I kind of wish
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they'd let us have our 50 puzzles and
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then the DLC would open up new sections,
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but that's not how they wanted to go
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about it. So, you get half of everything
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for the base game.
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Pieces don't always pick up. You can
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either click and drag a puzzle piece to
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the area you want to place it, or you
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can click on the piece and then click
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again to place it down. The problem is,
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if you click on a puzzle piece on the
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far side and move your mouse too
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quickly, it lets go of the piece.
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This happened so many times to me that
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it was almost always better to click and
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drag.
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And that's the end of a person con
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review of Glass Masquerade. Thanks for
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watching everyone, and don't get in too
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much trouble when you say, "Not now,
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Mom. I'm gaming.
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