Glass Masquerade

 Xbox One
User Score
6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5

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  1. SenorKoquonfaes
    Jul 26, 2021
    7
    Knowing basically nothing about this game, I was pleasantly surprised by the time I had wrapped up my playthrough.

    Glass Masquerade doesn’t have much in the way of a story, but that’s fine because it doesn’t really need one. From what I could gather, you play as a visitor of the International Times Exhibition: Dedicated to the decorative stained glass artisans of the 20th Century. You    Knowing basically nothing about this game, I was pleasantly surprised by the time I had wrapped up my playthrough.

    Glass Masquerade doesn’t have much in the way of a story, but that’s fine because it doesn’t really need one. From what I could gather, you play as a visitor of the International Times Exhibition: Dedicated to the decorative stained glass artisans of the 20th Century. You explore different galleries that represent countries all over the world and solve jigsaw puzzles based on a theme that’s representative to that country. For example: the Russia gallery is a puzzle motif of Yuri Gargarin.

    From the start menu, Glass Masquerade has a gorgeous and striking stained glass art direction that carries over into each of the 25 puzzles you’ll be solving. The core gameplay loop is… well, puzzle solving. The game initially starts you off at the France gallery, but afterwards you’re free to unlock and explore other galleries as you see fit. Puzzles are rated on a difficulty scale of 3 to 5 stars, though I suspect that might be more of a subjective rating depending on whose playing the game. I personally found all of the 3 star puzzles pretty straight forward, although I didn’t feel much of a difficulty spike between the 4 and 5 star puzzles. Again, your mileage in this game might be different. If you keep hints in this game enabled, each puzzle will provide a few pieces that line up with certain outer edges of the puzzle. This will provide players with a useful jumping off point if, like me, you aren’t that big on jigsaw puzzles in general. Sure, there were some moments where I felt a bit flustered trying to figure out where the pieces fit, but nothing beats the catharsis of having that moment where it suddenly ‘clicks’ for you, rapidly assembling pieces of the puzzle and watching as you place the last few pieces in their place.

    While you are timed on how long it takes to complete each puzzle, don’t let that scare you off of this game. You aren’t penalized for taking your time on a puzzle and there are no timed/speed running achievements in this game.

    The music in this game is great, it really helps established the mood of this being a fairly chill, relaxing puzzle game.

    Overall, Glass Masquerade is a pretty easy game to recommend. My playthrough lasted a little over 4 hours with no use of a guide.    … Expand

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Metascore
73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. TheXboxHub
    Feb 19, 2019
    70
    Glass Masquerade does deliver on its aims to a certain extent. It looks good, sounds okay and is a pitched at around the right level of challenge. If you like completing jigsaw puzzles it’s well worth a play, however, if you find them frustrating then my advice is to stay away – this game might just increase stress rather than relieve it.
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  2. MondoXbox
    Feb 18, 2019
    80
    A literal puzzle game, with very relaxing gameplay and great art design. Too bad for some technical problems and control hiccups that detract from the overall experience.
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  3. Generación Xbox
    Feb 15, 2019
    70
    If action is the only thing you look for in a videogame, this is absolutely not for you, but if you know what a Tiffany Lamp is this game will delight you.
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