Occasionally you’ll break to solve simple logic challenges, but it’s back to object hunting soon enough. What is most striking about The Otherside is its visual design. Individual levels are simply gorgeous to look upon, especially the levels that take place in the surreal OtherSide.
Even levels that take place in mundane Earth locations are beautiful, like an early level that takes place in a "luxury store" laden with exquisitely rendered antiques. The graphics in the playable levels actually put the 2D cutscenes to shame, making them feel cheap and ugly. The Otherside does feature a hint system, but you probably won’t use it often. While you can get unlimited hints, the mechanic is tethered to a very slow timer.
Since the object-hunting is so straightforward, the game produces few "ah-ha!" moments. Either you simply won’t need the hints, or you’ll just use them to slowly force your way through the game’s object hunts. There are a few times you’re asked to find things with only a single non-informative word (like "Aphrodite") for a clue, or to find objects that flagrantly look nothing like the example icon you’re given. The puzzles that break up the object-hunting are welcome but not especially inspired. The jigsaw puzzles are very good, since they can use the game’s gorgeous artwork to enhance the experience, but there are only a handful of these. The game most frequently asks you to solve what must be the easiest tangram puzzles ever conceived. You can skip them, but it’s unlike you’ll need to do so. Other puzzles include guiding a mine cart through a maze of tracks using switches and finding differences in a pair of seemingly identical scenes.
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