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hi everyone welcome to a brand new episode of let's play i'm joey davidson the senior gaming editor at TechnoBuffalo calm and I'm flying mag runners dark pulse the power to Cory today this game recently released it's a first-person puzzler with platform elements right away it's going to look really similar to portal which is probably what you're noticing now with this kind of test chamber s5 with really off-putting colors I guess essentially mag runner is a game that's based on magnets the storyline is set in a cyberpunk future with a heavy hand in Cthulhu mythology that's like Cthulhu is an HP Lovecraft's mythical monster that has really played a role in basically popular modern fiction since you wrote it back in the early 1900's I haven't gotten any of the Cthulhu bits yet I know it's coming I've seen screenshots where there are monsters and whatnot where I am now it's just very basically an intelligent puzzling platformer so what you're seeing right now and I'm trying to try to explain what exactly is going on the beams you're seeing are magnetic fields that round circle over there is also a magnetic field basically your gun controls the polarity of devices so rather than positive or negative you have red and green I think you can change that color scheme and the options menu as well if you don't want to do red and green you can do black and white or blue and orange whatever tickles your fancy essentially you need to get the magnetic fields to play nice together cooperate or oppose in order for you to traverse a given level and all the levels kind of in the same way that I mean portal portal really was a special game in more ways than just wanted it yes it was really fun and it was really difficult and challenging and the humor in it was really solid and everything else that we already praised it for but one of the real reasons why portal was genuinely influential upon gaming was because of the way that it introduced complicated puzzle solving mechanics it tests you right out of the gate and it introduces really tough problems but gives you enough tools to figure them out that's what makes these puzzle games so good and with a first-person puzzle game in a similar vein like mag runner it's really difficult to live up to what portal introduced but they have so far puzzles are a little bit tougher just because the polarity of magnets is a little harder to kind of conceive than portals for me at least I mean I'm sure it's different for everybody you're gonna see me propel across this gap with this magnet scheme is pretty wild the aesthetic is really pleasing the gameplay is really fun what I've seen so far is solid it only costs 20 bucks right now it's available on the pc platform i don't know if there are any plans to release it on others this is my only complaint right here there's a lot of loading in between sections and they don't mask it very well you know we're valve would have mashed the loading with a really long elevator sequence mag runner masks the loading with nothing they just pause the action so about to enter a really really complicated room word got a lot of time left on the clock and I figured oh this is how the story is told by the way you get cutscenes in between levels that are kind of not really cut scenes but the Holograms of people talking to you and then in the game you actually get people sitting on your gun talking to you which is kind of cool and did it take two so anyway this is a really really long level and rather than just cutting off half way through i figured i'd leave it intact but i'm not going to talk the whole thing you can kind of see me go through the motions of solving the puzzles but essentially what you need to know is that when two platforms or two objects matching colors so a green in a green obviously they share it's kind of the opposite of magnets which is weird because when you have a plus and a plus they bounce off of one another whatever when you have a green and a green they attract when you have a green and a red they are opposite and they push apart so you kind of use that pole and propulsion to your benefit in order to solve puzzles this puzzle in particular was really challenging for me when I did finally kind of orient the big space it's because it is such a big room and it's kind of hard to wrap your head around what you need to do in order to solve the puzzle once I figured out the space I had to figure out how the heck I was meant to get all the tools I needed to the door so you know ourselves a puzzle when a block comes crashing through a door you see the door right down there on the bottom left just a second ago otherwise this is mag runner dark pulse like I said for the PC it's currently available on Steam it might hit other platforms down the line if you'd like to see more this game just let us know otherwise thank you guys for watching let's play you've got like ten minutes of this video left if you don't want to watch it I'm not going to be saying anything from here on out it's just me solving this puzzle so enjoy me being frustrated thank you guys for watching i'm joey davidson see you next time huh you you