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Yerba Buena, out today, is a Portal-esque puzzle platformer where your weapon of choice is copying and pasting physics

Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed·Oisin Kuhnke·3 days ago
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Image credit: Mad About Pandas The problem with Portal is that Valve only made two of them. Those are some dang good puzzle games! And they're not very long. I don't necessarily need more Portal exactly per se, I just want more of that style of puzzle platforming that's equal parts physical as it is clever. Hopefully, Yerba Buena, a puzzle platformer where you can copy and paste the physics and movement of one object to another, can deliver on that front. Yerba Buena is, perhaps charmingly, perhaps surface levely, set within an abandoned video game world, the setting a slightly surrealistic interpretation of 1970s San Francisco. You play as Barb, a regular NPC that just moved into the city who gets roped into some kind of plot to destroy the city, you know how these things go. Where Portal has the portal gun, and Half-Life has the gravity gun, Yerba Buena has the Oscillator (not a gun, I guess), a device that can log the physics and movement of one thing, and apply it to another.…

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