Flash In The Brain Pan: Musaic Box

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Your grandfather, a well-known collector of antiquities, has passed away. You're here to explore his study. That's what you know going into Musaic Box, sort of a puzzle-based version of Name That Tune.

 

 

In your grandfather's mansion are a series of rooms, each cluttered with all sorts of crap you'll have to move around in order to find bits of sheet music. That sheet music will assemble to create a puzzle and solving all the puzzles will... yeah, it DOES sound like Myst. Additionally, fans of old Roberta Williams games will "fondly" remember the experience of the pixel hunt, trying to find what to do and where to click to get each piece of the parchment. But don't worry, it's not as bad as one of her puzzles. These make logical sense.

 

 

Once you find the sheet music you can jump to your book, where the song puzzles are waiting. Every puzzle you solve brings you a step closer to the next room, or to finding an amulet, or to opening that mysterious box once and for all. Some song puzzles even require you to finish other songpuzzles first. Isn't this game fiendish?

 

 

But that's not even the end of the instructions! When you click on a song on the book, you'll see a pile of tiles and a board. Using both music and geometry, you'll have to assemble the puzzle correctly so the little robot men can play it like a piano roll of old. It's hard to fully describe in a paragraph but it'll be obvious once you start to play. Most of the songs are familiar, so don't be afraid to listen to what you've created. Sometimes it's very easy to hear when a note's out of place.

 

 

Get the song right and the full band will play you a reward. Then you're back to the rooms, trying and find the next sheet of the puzzle. Can you make it all the way through every level of your grandfather's house? Can you clear every room and hear every song? Will you become the new master of the Musaic Box? Bonus points if you can finish the entire game with your sound off. We'll call that "Hardcore" mode.

 



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