In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Then, a few years later, developer Luminawesome Games and publisher Wired Productions released Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles.

Meet Lumote, the squishiest bioluminescent creature, in this beautiful 3D puzzle platformer. Take control of the world’s inhabitants on a quest into the Great Depths to seize control from the Mastermote.

Right from the off, Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles put a smile on my face. The wonderful and vibrant luminescent graphics really do make this title stand out and they’re a feast for the eyes. Taking place on one HUGE level/world, you control Lumote, a little squishy blob who has to turn the red areas of the world to blue. Melding platforming and puzzle elements, Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles packs in a lot of charm.

As Lumote, you can jump onto and control Motes, to use them to help you colour everything blue to open the next area of the world, for you to turn everything blue and move on. Rinse and repeat. With 50 puzzles to solve, this is where Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles begins to fall apart. As great as this looks, it plays very okay-ish. The puzzles never really change and are just slight variations on what you have already done several times over. I did begin to feel a little bored around the halfway point. The puzzles get harder as you progress, but they never really evolve in any meaningful way. They just change a bit.

You have full 360° movement of the camera. This is particularly handy for solving the puzzles as well as finding the many collectables in the game. In fact, I got the most enjoyment from exploring the area to find collectables than I did from the main puzzle-solving. Under all the wonderfully bright and colourful graphics, you get a very sub-standard puzzle-platformer that never really offers much in the way of depth.

Available now for pretty much everything and priced at around £16. Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles is a title that doesn’t play as well as it looks. Far from being a bad game, it’s just very middle of the road and never offers any major or interesting gameplay. It’s a very, very ‘safe’ game that plays okay in short bursts that may be worth checking out if you’re a die hard fan of the puzzle-platformer genre.