After a short stint wandering the orange canyons of Cocoon's opening area, you come across a curved groove in the ground. At one edge sits a large metallic ball, which you grab and yank until it reluctantly leaves its rectangular base, yet remains connected by a chewing gum string. Once the gum's elasticity approaches its limit, the base starts to move too, gliding across the mouth as if you're opening a zip.
As a puzzle adventure, the joy of Cocoon is in figuring out how to overcome obstacles and progress, but it's also in the execution. Taking hold of the ball in this instance is an obvious course of action given that the beetle-winged humanoid you guide around can only manipulate the world via a single action button. You drag the…
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