The environments eventually start to look all the same the longer you play and become visually boring near the end. They need to add more visual variety for this video game to keep you visually engaged longer in the game play.
Osmos starts out visually fun but eventually the screens and atmospheres become mundane. The bigger you grow the bigger motes you can swallow, until eventually you’re the biggest, baddest Mote of them all. You propel your Mote through space towards other Motes and absorb them. Your goal is to grow by swallowing smaller Motes as you move around the screen. You control a small circular organism called a Mote. Yet if you've got the patience to work past the occasional frustration and frequent lulls, Osmos will both delight you with its ingenuity and induce that meditative trance that few games can evoke.Osmos is a truly unique video game that has surprisingly engaging and entertaining game play. They are pleasant but unchanging and will make you long for a touch of diversity and contrast that never comes. The visuals should have taken a cue from the soundtrack. Osmos' music does its job well each track stays true to the game's ambient vision while providing subtleties of its own. Slowing down time is helpful in the stages where keeping expelled matter to a minimum is crucial, while speeding things along will keep you interested on the frequent occasions where you have to wait for ultra-pokey motes to float out of the way so you can pass by. You can slow time down or speed it up at will, and the minimalist soundtrack will follow suit, which is a neat effect. The slower-moving levels create an interesting antithesis to the more exacting ones, but thankfully you have control over the greatest of all equalizers: time. In a case of quantum physics meeting Newtonian law (could this be the infamous theory of everything?), you can shrink motes by pushing antimatter blobs into them with your flow of ejected matter. In some cases, that may mean babysitting a larger mote as it oh-so-slowly is absorbed into another, and then consuming it just as it reaches a palatable size. The more successful levels give you room to experiment without forcing you into a quick solution.
The production values invite you to relax-but the game doesn't always let you. The simple shimmery visuals and chill-out music don't always mesh with the quick thinking the toughest levels require. These stages are the most challenging but also seem most at odds with the vibe Osmos embraces. Multi-attractor stages require you to be speedier than in most of them if you waste time, motes and attractors will merge and grow too large for you to ever absorb, which causes you to lose the level. Unfortunately, you can't always tell how other motes will react to the gravity of multiple attractors, so you need to be alert. A helpful line will indicate the trajectory of your orbit and whether it is safe or will result in a collision with an attractor. Motes called attractors will draw you and other motes into their orbits. Then, you'll need to adjust your tactics or be sucked into the larger mote. If you aren't careful, you could eject too much mass when thrusting and become smaller than your target. Yet you need to change your trajectory lest it float right past. Consider this scenario: You are close to a mote that is just smaller than your own, and your strategy requires that you absorb it. This simple variant means that you must make smaller initial sacrifices to earn greater gains, all while avoiding the threat of getting sucked into a massive blob. In the meanwhile, your own mote shrinks by a proportionate amount, while other motes absorb each other and gain mass. Bubbles of mote matter are left in your wake and float into the void, where it can be absorbed by other motes. There's one very important difference, however in order to shoot your mote forward, you have to sacrifice some of its mass. This basic concept seems simple enough and bears more than a passing resemblance to games like Flow, Katamari Damacy, and Art Style: Orbient. As you grow, you are then able to absorb larger and larger motes, until you "become the biggest," as the game itself so eloquently phrases it. You do this by propelling yourself through space toward smaller motes and absorbing them. You control a small circular organism called a mote, and as a rule, your primary goal is to grow.
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