luiscarlospando

Got this game to support Lienzo who happen to be based on the same city where I live. On this review I'm gonna leave aside the cultural aspects of the game and I'm gonna focus on the video game aspects of it. The one positive thing I can say about Mulaka is that I really like the artistic approach they took for representing the Tarahumara culture, the low-poly style really fits the theme. I don't know if this style was chosen from a technical perspective though, but it fits really well. Although the artistic style is very simplistic, I noticed the game suffers from some frame drops here and there, which is kinda odd, maybe the game wasn't optimized for the Switch at all. The game received way too much praise for what it really is. I felt it like an unfinished/unpolished product, the controls were clunky, the main game play mechanics started to feel boring very soon, the music was very repetitive and really not good at all, the puzzles were very basic, almost with no real challenge, Mulaka's voice gets really annoying after a while and finally... The invisible walls, oh boy, the invisible walls... They appear out of nowhere every time, which denotes a very poor level design. Mulaka, as a video game, never felt fun at all. For a first attempt and for a studio the size of Lienzo I think Mulaka is justifiable, but the game is bad, no question about it. I really hope Lienzo learns from their mistakes and I really wish their next endeavor results in a better way.