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Rating by FearlessAdventurer posted on May 2, 2024 | edit | delete
Okay
Old school point & click adventure with a decent amount of amusing scenes and absurd solutions. But very short, it feels more like an prologue. Took me under 5 hours, without the sidequests (which are mostly not overly interesting fetch-quests) it should be even beatable in around 3 hours.
I might check out the sequel, if it ever comes out (the first episode is from 2021), but it doesn’t have high priority.
Should have played it on PC, though. The controls via gamepad are okay but not very smooth. Also, add an option for changing the subtitles language goddamn! I’m forced to look at the mediocre German texts all the time while I’d prefer the original texts…
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Time Played: 2-5 hours
Difficulty: Just Right
Rating by shanethewolf posted on Apr 24, 2024 | edit | delete
Style over substance
The visuals in this game are nothing short of phenomenal. The love, dedication and passion that went into every model, the animation and even the lighting, is beyond anything I’ve seen in an adventure game and most animated movies.
The music and voice acting is on point too, creating an immersive atmosphere and a living community.
It could have been a classic, if it wasn’t for the writing and gameplay. Unfortunately, when the novelty of the visuals begins to fade, the game suddenly feels very boring. The gameplay involves fetch quests, talking to one character on behalf of another and going through lists of chores, making it feel more like a chore than a game.
It’s a shame the developers didn’t spend more time creating logical puzzles, object combinations and the gameplay elements that make point and click adventures so satisfying and fun to play.
As for the story, it’s overwhelmingly bland and also quite cliched, drawing on many other dystopian works of fiction before it.
That’s not to say it’s a bad game, but it doesn’t live up to its visuals.
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Time Played: 2-5 hours
Difficulty: Just Right
Item search sim
Not bad at all! A very nice sequal. Lots of puzzels of easy to hard difficulty. My score would be a lot higher though, because of 1 thing. You need to find a lot of very small items. Like small keys and the location where you have to find these items is pretty big. I’ve spent hours and hours trying to find these items and for me, this was very off putting.
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Time Played: Over 20 hours
Difficulty: Just Right
Rating by shanethewolf posted on Apr 9, 2024 | edit | delete
Rating by FearlessAdventurer posted on Apr 6, 2024 | edit | delete
Rating by FearlessAdventurer posted on Mar 27, 2024 | edit | delete
Rating by FearlessAdventurer posted on Mar 27, 2024 | edit | delete
Cute, super-simple game
I quite like the concept of the game and it is visually appealing and relaxing. I think it might be a good thing for kids and I have seen other people enjoy it more. I think the final game had very nice subtle sign-posting and hints to get you through the game (after the game I played the 2012 demo which was very similar although had a bit less than half the game and less sign-posting - I don’t think the 2012 demo adds anything, maybe a bit of slightly more challenging content).
I generally found it pretty simple and usually the number of options were pretty limited. It took me just under an hour to go through both the main game and the 2012 demo with occasional random clicking. There are some nice story concepts in there, although without any text or dialogue it is left kinda ambiguous. Some of the story concepts are a bit dark, but I don’t think they would be upsetting to a young child because I don’t think they would understand why it could be upsetting.
There was one timing-based puzzle that felt slightly tight to me (there were two other puzzles with timing elements but they felt super generous - the first one was still generous but I missed the timing once or twice while figuring it out).
Maybe I’m just too comfortable with these kinds of visual puzzles but this felt too straight-forward and minimally story-driven for me to really enjoy it or recommend it.
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Time Played: Under 1 hour
Difficulty: Very Easy
