TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘Embracelet’
Developer Machineboy, aka solo developer Mattis Folkestad, captured our hearts with the quirky retro-style adventure game Milkmaid of the Milky Way ($3.99) back in 2017, fetching our Game of the Week nod and a 4 star review at the time. Milkmaid was a pretty traditional point-and-click style game, but in all honesty the puzzles themselves didn’t put up much of a fight as this was a title that was more about experiencing the story, characters, and the silly humor than taxing your brain. That’s kind of what we liked about it so much. Now Machineboy has brought their new project Embracelet (), which launched on PC and Nintendo Switch in October, over to the iOS platform and it presents a lot of what we enjoyed in Milkmaid of the Milky Way but in an entirely new and gorgeous package. Embracelet is very much a coming of age adventure. You play as Norwegian teenager Jesper whose grandfather gives him a mysterious bracelet that gives Jesper the power to move objects like Luke Skywalker using The Force. There’s also a mysterious story around how your grandfather ended up with the bracelet, and some of the things he’s done in his past as a result of the bracelet’s power. He tasks you with visiting the small Northern island he grew up on, and the place he hasn’t been back to since “the incident" with the bracelet. Your job will be to unravel the mysteries of your grandfather’s past and fulfill your promise to him to return the ...
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