**VIDEO SPOILERS BELOW** Railbound review, starting with what I liked: - The overall difficulty curve of these puzzles was excellent. The main track had a fair and easy difficulty (except for the final world), allowing the players to get familiar with the new mechanics, and the challenge levels lived up to their expectation. Despite my initial impressions, I was happy with the level of challenge eventually reached. - Many of the mechanics lead to unique and interesting solutions that didn't involve brute force. These were the tunnels, gates, stations, and zombie cars. The zombie cars in particular were incredibly fun to work out. - The graphics were perfect for a puzzle game. - There's more puzzles and mechanics still to come! What I didn't like: - Most puzzles with 3+ button-activated switch tracks, regardless of whether the button was on the switch track itself or on another piece, were uncomfortable to logic your way through. The closest I got to fully using logic was testing out a random combination of tracks and adapting from there, and even that got tedious. Most of the time, it was much more reasonable to use trial and error than to come up with a tangible idea. As the game went on, I felt I was getting better at trial and error rather than getting better at switch track puzzles. - Too many puzzles could be solved by placing the exact number of tracks allowed in their most obvious positions, then adjusting the arrows until something worked. It was a cool strategy at first, but wore off quickly. - The bonus levels in world 8 being sandbox-y was disappointing. I wish you could've unlocked a full-fledged sandbox with place-able parts instead. - Alternative idea to replace the sandbox-y levels: levels where you can place down parts that aren't just regular tracks, such as tunnels or switch tracks with buttons. Using those to solve puzzles could reward creativity and would also feel more sandbox-y, but in a fun way like Poly Bridge. Overall Rating: 7/10 (Very Good)
I think the "sandbox" challenge levels are there for you to try to beat it with the fewest tracks without any hints from the number of tracks available.
I was kinda hoping that the World 8 challenge levels would have some sort of secret code with the leftover tracks. Since there were 8 challenge levels and 8 worlds maybe they could have tied that together, like you would see a hidden number in the end postcard?
Yeah, great puzzle game, but it had a similar problem to another one I've played called Causality, where you have very little control over what the game pieces do and they just kind of chaotically butterfly-effect-ripple tiny changes into massive consequences. It feels like a kind of puzzle game that might be thinky to aliens who can see in 4D rather than to us.
I was 100% expecting a cosmic express rug pull of "you haven't even started playing the game yet, kiddo" where you have to start using a certain number of rails per level, but ok, this is fine too
bruh i legit thought the gimmick of the final challenge levels was that the track limit was global across all the levels and you need to conserve tracks to have enough for the final level
The final world looks so sinister with the darker pallete. But the bonus level was a bit disappointing that its just sandbox. Sandbox could've been just another mode (like a Level editor) instead of tucked away hidden behind the hardest difficulty.
Here I thought the final Bonus world there was gonna be that you had a limited number of tracks for the ENTIRE world, and THAT'S why you had so many, because they didn't carry over. Sadly, that was NOT the case.
"Giving this game's worlds/chapters names because why not" part 3 (ground ????) 1 - train engineer's entrance exam 2 - Kyiv's path 3 - Buttons are fun! 4 - Buttons are essential! 5 - kitten passengers 6 - "buttons? in my switchtracks? It's more likely than you think!" 7 - part-time train carts 8 - in the loop or just some bonus levels
I think for the final world they tallied all your rails you saved in the bonus levels to unlock a secret puzzle. But the catch is that if you didn’t do the most minimalist strategy you wouldn’t have enough rails to unlock the puzzle.
I do adore trains and watching you play this was very nice, I got hyped when you got a lil stuck on a level and then finished it. On a side note, you remember SNKRX? Well, I've stubbled across a video where someone was playing a game called FLERP, looks to be very similar looks wise. Thought I'd let you know in case you'd like to try it and see what it's like, I plan to get it myself at some point.
14:56 I thought this was his wish come true. Easy tracks (which if I remember correctly is the first tract bonus levels.) With left over as much track possible.
I was really hoping the final levels were gonna be similar to the ones in Taiji where for example the 77 tracks you were given were shared across all level, so if you don't optimize them, you end up running out by the end.
You should play a game called Noita, it was made by the same developers as Baba is You except it's not a puzzle game but a rogue-like and magic game. There are puzzles in the game but most of them are really vague and basically impossible to do without the wiki. It's a game where you spawn as a mage and have to go deeper in a cave with multiple levels and bosses. There is a lot of secrets and the game encourages you to explore the game to get better wands, traits and spells. Each wand is different, for example spells and stats. As you gather better spells and wands, you can make synergies to make the ultimate wand. Learning the game is a lot of trial and error but it's certainly fun. What separates this game from others of it's genre is that every pixel is simulated, you can destroy pretty much everything and pretty much everything can destroy you. There is no time limit in the game so you can explore to your hearts content. Again the game is a lot of trial and error but is super fun to play. I doubt that it will fit the channel although you could stream it if you want. The game is very fun overall but i do suggest watching a video about it to see if you like it and/or if it fits the channel.
At first I thought the mechanic of the sandbox levels was that you share the tracks inbetween levels, so you start with 77 or whatever it was and have to manage them through all the challenge levels to make all of them work
I think since it's night themed it was revered. Allot of games have night theme as the reverse of the base game. So maybe the "Hard Levels" were easy because the "Normal Levels" were Hard.
I am surprised there wasn't a mechanic of a 4-way track, like all the switch/turns were 3-way but also compared to cosmic express it does seem more like "get the required connecting tracks in and just click turns until it works" and there is a bit of waiting for things to just work out.. like if I tried playing this so many levels I'd quit prematurely since a train car would loop a few times and I'd assume it was stuck.. And those bonus levels were weird, did they think people would overcomplicate it? Other fun idea is since the world is night themed, there are invisible mechanics like imagine you magically can't place a track somewhere and it's a tunnel that pops out elsewhere on the map.. or is that mean? Maybe invisible until uncovered? I find it hilarious you ignored the switch tracks for the most of the bonus levels though.. them being meant to relax you was confusing af since it's the last main world, so you expect just more challenges like the past 7 worlds of bonus challenges.. and if they were to do sandbox I'd think they'd do "hey here is bonus sandbox world" and not "we got lazy for the last world.. eh fuck it do whatever"
Level 8-6 was way easier than the way you did it, those switch tracks were a distraction You could have gone straight to the end after 1 picked up it’s passenger
I don’t understand a lot of puzzle games you play, all I know is I see amonguses in most of the solutions and it makes me regret what society has become as well as what it morphed my mind into
In fact, I didn't think at first that the branch level in chapter 8 would be so simple. It's so simple that the organs that are placed are like a display. (So much so that I'm watching When I was in the Chinese version of the transplant in China, there was a sentence on the way to watching the video. Is this level design sick? Anyway, for me, this kind of semi-yarn level with almost no design. It is quite fun, it is this kind of semi-sandbox, after all, it is not a sandbox level. This has to be said, for me, a player who likes railway games, it is undoubtedly a pity.
@@i1KiCK1BUTT its more like ~670 comments, as there was a ~1 month period where I was in big trouble with my parents, and my phone was taken away for a while. But when I got it back I had a really big and grand comment that said like "day 140-176" for it. If you wanna go looking for it, its roughly when he finished cluster truck
I have to ask why there are different stations for the cars. Can you not walk from car to car to be where you're supposed to? All the stations should allow every car to pick them up.
**VIDEO SPOILERS BELOW**
Railbound review, starting with what I liked:
- The overall difficulty curve of these puzzles was excellent. The main track had a fair and easy difficulty (except for the final world), allowing the players to get familiar with the new mechanics, and the challenge levels lived up to their expectation. Despite my initial impressions, I was happy with the level of challenge eventually reached.
- Many of the mechanics lead to unique and interesting solutions that didn't involve brute force. These were the tunnels, gates, stations, and zombie cars. The zombie cars in particular were incredibly fun to work out.
- The graphics were perfect for a puzzle game.
- There's more puzzles and mechanics still to come!
What I didn't like:
- Most puzzles with 3+ button-activated switch tracks, regardless of whether the button was on the switch track itself or on another piece, were uncomfortable to logic your way through. The closest I got to fully using logic was testing out a random combination of tracks and adapting from there, and even that got tedious. Most of the time, it was much more reasonable to use trial and error than to come up with a tangible idea. As the game went on, I felt I was getting better at trial and error rather than getting better at switch track puzzles.
- Too many puzzles could be solved by placing the exact number of tracks allowed in their most obvious positions, then adjusting the arrows until something worked. It was a cool strategy at first, but wore off quickly.
- The bonus levels in world 8 being sandbox-y was disappointing. I wish you could've unlocked a full-fledged sandbox with place-able parts instead.
- Alternative idea to replace the sandbox-y levels: levels where you can place down parts that aren't just regular tracks, such as tunnels or switch tracks with buttons. Using those to solve puzzles could reward creativity and would also feel more sandbox-y, but in a fun way like Poly Bridge.
Overall Rating: 7/10 (Very Good)
agreed, game looked fun and very entertaining, 6.9420 out of 10
I think the "sandbox" challenge levels are there for you to try to beat it with the fewest tracks without any hints from the number of tracks available.
I was kinda hoping that the World 8 challenge levels would have some sort of secret code with the leftover tracks. Since there were 8 challenge levels and 8 worlds maybe they could have tied that together, like you would see a hidden number in the end postcard?
Please check out Sokobond
Yeah, great puzzle game, but it had a similar problem to another one I've played called Causality, where you have very little control over what the game pieces do and they just kind of chaotically butterfly-effect-ripple tiny changes into massive consequences. It feels like a kind of puzzle game that might be thinky to aliens who can see in 4D rather than to us.
With those final levels, I really thought they were gonna pull, "What you have placed here is forced-placed in these other challenge levels."
Just like the layered puzzle in Taiji!
Yeah!
I thought it would be that many tracks to solve all the challenge levels and that he would run out because he used so many in the first few levels
i thought you had this amount of rails for all the levels
Levels meant to chill and soothe the brain.
Tyler: Panik
😆
*basically everyone*: Panic
19:26 the levels meant to relax and sooth gave your overthinking brain anxiety lol
The puzzle not using any of the elements is not relaxing or soothing at all lol
I was 100% expecting a cosmic express rug pull of "you haven't even started playing the game yet, kiddo" where you have to start using a certain number of rails per level, but ok, this is fine too
I wish there was a secret level, that you got tracks to complete it, equal to the number of left over tracks you had in all the other levels
and you should work your brain on the other levels to get the tracks that you don't have
bruh i legit thought the gimmick of the final challenge levels was that the track limit was global across all the levels and you need to conserve tracks to have enough for the final level
The final world looks so sinister with the darker pallete. But the bonus level was a bit disappointing that its just sandbox. Sandbox could've been just another mode (like a Level editor) instead of tucked away hidden behind the hardest difficulty.
The bonus levels are to reward the player, an aftergame.
Not everything in the dark needs to be hard or stressful.
@@Malam_NightYoru poetic
Here I thought the final Bonus world there was gonna be that you had a limited number of tracks for the ENTIRE world, and THAT'S why you had so many, because they didn't carry over.
Sadly, that was NOT the case.
That's actually brilliant
Aw, the last levels being "sandboxy" is a shame. I really thought there was some insane twist coming
"Giving this game's worlds/chapters names because why not" part 3 (ground ????)
1 - train engineer's entrance exam
2 - Kyiv's path
3 - Buttons are fun!
4 - Buttons are essential!
5 - kitten passengers
6 - "buttons? in my switchtracks? It's more likely than you think!"
7 - part-time train carts
8 - in the loop or just some bonus levels
Sad to see it end, loved this series. Reminded me of Carto
me too.
the 2x3 square goes exactly where the 2x3 square goes
2x3 square, eh?
the 2x3 square goes in the 1x2 square hole
the rectangle goes into the square hole!
The final bonus levels show quite well why the devs couldn't really give 'extra' tracks as a bait in the game.
It's a polish game and your video is 21:37 minutes long, i love you for that
May I ask what is special about this number?
@@denycast The hour when John Paul II died. The number 2137 became the "funny number" in Poland, like 69 or 420.
5:03 The button was hit 5 times. Yes, I counted.
congratulations on counting all the way up to 5!
@@frimi8593 lol
I think he was talking about the yellow switch-track button, which was 7
I was totally expecting those bonus levels to be building up to a huge final boss level where you have to fill the entire map
I think for the final world they tallied all your rails you saved in the bonus levels to unlock a secret puzzle. But the catch is that if you didn’t do the most minimalist strategy you wouldn’t have enough rails to unlock the puzzle.
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I'm sorry for your loss.
Life can be cruel sometimes 😔 Hope you can recover well 🙏
The level 8 bonus levels looked great
Watching Tyler get so nervous in the “calming” puzzle section was genuinely hilarious.
Tyler: "3 and 2 won't hit each other."
*3 and 2 hitting each other*
I'm really glad you finished this series. It was a fun journey :)
I really loved this series
Can’t believe this is the end.
honestly loved watching this game and wish it more success
i thought the final level was going to be like "you have 70 rails to solve these 5 levels" and you'd have to micromanage the rail placement
I do adore trains and watching you play this was very nice, I got hyped when you got a lil stuck on a level and then finished it. On a side note, you remember SNKRX? Well, I've stubbled across a video where someone was playing a game called FLERP, looks to be very similar looks wise. Thought I'd let you know in case you'd like to try it and see what it's like, I plan to get it myself at some point.
just a reminder that you can build snkrx for yourself for free, and even mod it (if you know lua)
Those 'challenge' levels for world 8 made me think very much of playground levels, just levels where you can test out all the mechanics.
14:56 I thought this was his wish come true. Easy tracks (which if I remember correctly is the first tract bonus levels.) With left over as much track possible.
I was really hoping the final levels were gonna be similar to the ones in Taiji where for example the 77 tracks you were given were shared across all level, so if you don't optimize them, you end up running out by the end.
Tyler: "Why do I hear boss music?"
Devs: "Oh this music? It's my chill vibes & relaxation playlist."
A very nice series. I enjoyed watching your run through it and hopefully They do make more levels.
You should play a game called Noita, it was made by the same developers as Baba is You except it's not a puzzle game but a rogue-like and magic game. There are puzzles in the game but most of them are really vague and basically impossible to do without the wiki. It's a game where you spawn as a mage and have to go deeper in a cave with multiple levels and bosses. There is a lot of secrets and the game encourages you to explore the game to get better wands, traits and spells. Each wand is different, for example spells and stats. As you gather better spells and wands, you can make synergies to make the ultimate wand. Learning the game is a lot of trial and error but it's certainly fun. What separates this game from others of it's genre is that every pixel is simulated, you can destroy pretty much everything and pretty much everything can destroy you. There is no time limit in the game so you can explore to your hearts content. Again the game is a lot of trial and error but is super fun to play. I doubt that it will fit the channel although you could stream it if you want. The game is very fun overall but i do suggest watching a video about it to see if you like it and/or if it fits the channel.
oh nice, polish game
At first I thought the mechanic of the sandbox levels was that you share the tracks inbetween levels, so you start with 77 or whatever it was and have to manage them through all the challenge levels to make all of them work
lovely content very nice. always enjoy your videos
Ty for explainin'
well i guess you could say this is our stop
Well we were on the right *track*
This should've been called 'Wait, why DON'T I hear boss music?'
I think this game have a very big potential, kinda like baba is you, but i will miss this series a lot
ALIENSROCK, THERES A NEW UPDATE TO BACKPACK HERO, THERES A NEW HERO, ITS A BIRB
This game rocks so much
Ok, i wanna know how much was cut out of 8-3 cause I've been stuck on that one for so long!
This game does a great job of exploring the category boundary between strategy games and Peggle.
I think since it's night themed it was revered. Allot of games have night theme as the reverse of the base game. So maybe the "Hard Levels" were easy because the "Normal Levels" were Hard.
Uhhhh nice theory👍
@@denycast I mean I know the game says it's to relax your brain but this was before I watched that part
I had a feeling the last extra levels were literal Sandbox levels
Holy, his problem solving skills r insane
yessss!
The 8 challenge levels are exactly the easy version, cause it's a "night" level, it's like the opposite.
Everybody gangsta until the 5th cart comes in
I think it would be cool to see levels with multiple trains
19:45 didn't know it was a polish game, cool
Great video!
I was mentally screaming at tyler that it was just a sandbox level on 8-1A
5:02
Orange: 5
Yellow: 7
This was a great series! If you are looking for a similar experience, I can recommand Manufactoria 2022.
It's because Uncle John is coming to the house with an energy sword.
This game would pop off if it had community created maps like poly bridge
I am surprised there wasn't a mechanic of a 4-way track, like all the switch/turns were 3-way but also compared to cosmic express it does seem more like "get the required connecting tracks in and just click turns until it works" and there is a bit of waiting for things to just work out.. like if I tried playing this so many levels I'd quit prematurely since a train car would loop a few times and I'd assume it was stuck..
And those bonus levels were weird, did they think people would overcomplicate it? Other fun idea is since the world is night themed, there are invisible mechanics like imagine you magically can't place a track somewhere and it's a tunnel that pops out elsewhere on the map.. or is that mean? Maybe invisible until uncovered?
I find it hilarious you ignored the switch tracks for the most of the bonus levels though.. them being meant to relax you was confusing af since it's the last main world, so you expect just more challenges like the past 7 worlds of bonus challenges.. and if they were to do sandbox I'd think they'd do "hey here is bonus sandbox world" and not "we got lazy for the last world.. eh fuck it do whatever"
Ah yes, railbound ass pain
I might have to get this game
3:07 if you tilt your head to the right it looks sus
5:02 the button was hit 7 times.
He clearly refused to get a job at Nasa
THERE’S A NEW RAILBOUND UPDATE
Level 8-6 was way easier than the way you did it, those switch tracks were a distraction
You could have gone straight to the end after 1 picked up it’s passenger
Lmao lvl 8 is too easy so the guide was used. Seems like a very good way for developers to get players to Google their game
15 :00 you could cover the whole map with rails, and you didn't even notice?
Edit: oh, he realized that
I just want to point out one thing to all the Polish people out there...
21:37 :D
bruh cool puzzle
Dude started to budget tracks. The polybridge is too strong.
0:28 *Coco* :)
woop woop love da vids
sans is that you
I don’t understand a lot of puzzle games you play, all I know is I see amonguses in most of the solutions and it makes me regret what society has become as well as what it morphed my mind into
10:01 ut van be traversed just not effectively
I thought they were gonna pull a cosmic express where you beat the game but wait theres more... beat it again but wait... theres more... and so on.
Maybe try total party kill
Like they say in that game
A sacrefice must be made
I think it want you to fill the map with rail.
Imagine a custom made level thing
Haha yay
Wish that finished with a bit more pizazz
You can do much more with four.
The world8 levels u use every mechanic, and in the challenge levels u used none
If only in 8-5 he’d just flipped the early fail where he got 1432 bc then it would’ve become 1234
" maybe it isnt odd that i have one left over"
tyler you should have paid better attention in preschool smh one is an odd number take better notes
In fact, I didn't think at first that the branch level in chapter 8 would be so simple. It's so simple that the organs that are placed are like a display. (So much so that I'm watching When I was in the Chinese version of the transplant in China, there was a sentence on the way to watching the video. Is this level design sick? Anyway, for me, this kind of semi-yarn level with almost no design. It is quite fun, it is this kind of semi-sandbox, after all, it is not a sandbox level. This has to be said, for me, a player who likes railway games, it is undoubtedly a pity.
Uh oh.
Please try and get the minimum rails achievement
There was a lot of potential to go out of the box with the world 8 levels
uh oh
**VIDEO SPOILERS BELOW**
Train
Episode 1- too easy
World 8- tyler whT the fuCK is Going on
Tyler do you like your own videos?
"why do i hear boss music"
The boss music:
th-cam.com/video/lAIGb1lfpBw/w-d-xo.html
man, imagine not making any real challenge levels for the final world :/
Day 716 of telling Tyler that he never finished his minecraft series and that he should finish it.
Nice commitment, we need to get this comment to the top to have it recognized!
Day 676 of agreeing
Day 1 if agreeing with the guy agreeing
We need all 716 comments in a list.
@@i1KiCK1BUTT its more like ~670 comments, as there was a ~1 month period where I was in big trouble with my parents, and my phone was taken away for a while. But when I got it back I had a really big and grand comment that said like "day 140-176" for it. If you wanna go looking for it, its roughly when he finished cluster truck
Imaginr being late😹
I have to ask why there are different stations for the cars. Can you not walk from car to car to be where you're supposed to? All the stations should allow every car to pick them up.
It's a puzzle 😓
It's a puzzle game, not a simulator
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