Just how good are you at spotting differences? So good that you can find miniscule discrepancies between moving objects that, by all cursory glances, look and act identically? It's time to activate your visual cortex in a serious way with A Very Simple Game 2: Odd One Out, a game that's so simple, it will stump you time and time again.
The idea is straightforward: find which smiley is different from the rest. What sets one smiley apart from the others is never easy to see, though. Sometimes it's a difference in movement patterns or speed. Sometimes a different placement of dots or shadings. Sometimes, after carefully studying the screen for a few minutes, you have no idea what the difference is and you wildly throw a click out there in the hopes that your luck will make up for your lack of attention to detail. It probably isn't, and you'll lose one of your few lives and get knocked back a level, forcing you to do it all over again. Don't be hasty!
Fortunately, some help is available for those times you get stuck (and you will). A hint system offers one helpful piece of prose for each level, never telling you outright what to look for but instead giving you a cryptic clue you must decipher on your own. It's usually enough to dislodge your sputtering difference-spotting engines, and since solving the hint riddle is almost a game unto itself, it's fun, even when you're "failing". Heck, sometimes it's fun to look up the hint even before you check out the smileys!
A Very Simple Game 2 looks and sounds simple, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's easy. It's not. It's challenging. Quite challenging. So challenging, you'll probably get stuck on the third level. The hints even require some untangling, so there's never a free ride, just a brain teaser left and right.
Also, if having one simple game isn't enough, head back and try the original A Very Simple Game. It uses a lot of the same assets, but instead of spotting differences, you're spotting spots, clicking on colored dots in each level. Not as mind-bending or challenging, but still good for a coffee break or two.
Walkthrough Guide
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Walkthrough for AVSG2:
Level 1:
Click the frowny face
Level 2:
Click the one that isn't jumping
Level 3:
Click the one with an extra dot above it's eye
Level 4:
Click the one that is bouncing out of sync with the others
Level 5:
Click the one whose forehead symbol is spinning the opposite direction of all the rest
Level 6:
Click the one whose innermost forehead circle is spinning at a different speed than the other faces
Level 7:
Click the one that never stops bouncing
Level 8:
Click the one whose flowers have 5 petals, rather than 4
Level 9:
Click the one with the Star Trek sideburns (pointy, that is). This also ties in with the in-game hint. (thanks, LS and ruufy!)
Level 10:
Click the one that shoots out both white and orange dots from it's head.
Posted by: Taylor | July 31, 2011 2:31 PM
Walkthrough for AVSG1:
I suggest you clean your monitor screen before starting.
Yellow
The spot is directly below the middle individual (We're all individuals!)
Green
The spot is directly below the 3rd chap from the left (chap being used in a gender-neutral way, what-ho!)
Blue
Look at the three fellows bouncing up and down in a row, the dot is near where the 3rd one from the left lands, slightly to his/her right ("fellows" being used in the sense of "peers" or "colleagues", rather than to indicate gender).
Red
Look at the second stationary row down, the dot is near the place where the 3rd one from the left is sitting on, slightly to the right.
Purple
See the bouncy purple creature right in the middle of all the other bouncing creatures? The tiny purple dot is almost hidden in his/her shadow.
Pink
Cartoon conventions indicate these characters are female. (Pink, have eyelashes.) The female (cartoon conventions used here don't indicate whether these characters are Women or Girls) with the pink dot is the second one from the left, in the lowest stationary pair down. The dot is almost hidden in her shadow. Helps if you try to click it when the others are in their bouncing up state.
Black
This dot moves around. One place it is seen is in the left "armpit" (his/her left, not yours) of the left-most stationary character (your left, not his/hers). It is there for a rather short time. A longer appearance of the black dot is made on the mouth of the right-most character in the stationary row of three. (I apologise for any offence the homeo-centric term "armpit" may have caused to creatures with fin-like appendages.)
Brown
A similarly moving dot. Look at the top row. The dot appears during some bouncy cycles just left of where the left one lands, for longer periods on the left edge (your left, not his/hers) of the middle one, and sometimes hidden in the shadow of the right one. Pick the one that is easiest for you to click. There are no right or wrong answers, we respect that everyone has the right to his/her own choice.
Orange
A veritable sea of sunshiny faces! Nice to see you all here. Thank you for coming. We have another moving dot to find. If I could direct the audience's attention to the top-left stationary being, a dot very close in color to its surroundings appears briefly, very close to the being's left cheek (his/her left, not yours). Fortunately, the dot reappears for a longer period elsewhere. If you could shift your gaze to the stationary being in the dead-centre (no offence to the undead I'm sure). He/she is in a diagonal row of three stationary beings. The dot appears touching where the outlines of this being, and the next in the row, meet.
White
There are at least two places where the dot puts in a appearance. Imagine all of the characters in their stationary/resting positions. The right-most one in the middle row has a dot appear at times on the outline of his/her left jaw (his/her left, not yours). If your cannot see this, as many with various vision deficiencies (sorry, differences) may not, the dot also appears on the character 2nd from the left, in the top row (ignore the solitary top and bottom bouncers for now). It is near the lower left of his/her mouth (his/her left, not yours), like a beauty spot (beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and remember it is only skin deep). I have one such myself. You can occasionally see it more clearly where the bottom solitary bouncer rises to his/her highest position. This rare sighting occurs less than once per bounce cycle, so be patient and steady in your attempts to detect it. If you have seen it once, you know where to click as it re-appears and disappears in a less obvious manner.
I thank you all for your indulgence.
Posted by: ruufy
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August 1, 2011 12:39 AM