Lorelai

I expected a lot! Beautiful main menu screen with nice and catchy song, stylish. Whole first act is great. Visualy nice stylized 2D graphic, evolution of style from Downfall and Cat Lady. Good music and voice acting, fine writing. Gameplay same as in Cat lady, light walking on 2D areas, taking, using items, talking with people. Minus are crazy graphic requirements for 2D game! You are Lorelai, young girl living with drinking mother and psychopatic macho boyfriend of her mother. Living with them is not easy, but your new job maybe help you to get away from them. But things can be much much worse. Story was great, until you get into the world of Queen of Maggot, character from Cat Lady game. Things make less and less sense. Dialogs and writings are worse and worse. There are optional silly tasks which have no effect on your progress and also few moral choices, which surprisely have no impact on story neither. But lately in game you met with mysterious character which give you very odd task, to do one bizarre thing which is totaly against friendly nature of your character, just cause its for good, and you weirdly accept that! No comment. Story has so many holes that i cant believe that game was complete on release day. Gives me a strong feeling that came out too soon and lot of story things just missing. Good example is puzzle from the end of game, it can be solved by two ways, one easy, second is much more complicated. So I expect some impact, different result or maybe different ending, but game acts same way as if you use easy solution. Really? Ending was fail too, makes no sense, and explain nothing at all. You can get slightly different ending and extra dialog depending on who you saved during game, but in the end game ignores all your moral choices. Why? Awesome first 25% of game, and technicaly also great, but the rest of this game is so flappy. Beggining rocks, so how could quality fall down like this? Lack of money or time to development? Score: 50%

really cool game. dont like writing reviews

I enjoyed the story, but the game itself is just poorly made. The graphics are quite bad. The artwork is blurry, and when mixed with 3D environments it's very jarring. Several times the "blur" effect for backgrounds is overlayed ON TOP of foreground elements which it's intended at all. The scenes take forever to load sometimes for a game with these graphics. The story presents itself at a point with "choices" but they have no impact at all by the end. The narrative doesn't shift depending on your actions. The story was quite interesting, and I did enjoy what was happening, but overall the actual mechanics/graphics was incredibly lacking

I really really love the original Downfall and The Cat Lady. So Lorelai was a highly anticipated game for me. She turned out to be the biggest disappointment. 1. This is more an interactive cartoon than a game. The gameplay is almost non-existent. Perhaps it was worth making a cartoon, not a game? 2. The length of the plot exceeds all reasonable limits. 3. Terrible post-processing filters that light up and darken the picture. The game looks just awful. 4. Cherry on the cake - a monstrous optimization. Unity is a terrible engine for such games. Such a visually stingy game manages to slow down on a laptop, quietly launching a shooter or strategy.

Lorelai is a very strong adventure title that is third in a series of wonderful emotionally complex titles. It is not as absorbing as the previous two titles. I think partly this is because the plot is more straightforward, and since you can see where it's going it is less scary. Also, this character is more developed than Susan from the Cat Lady which makes it feel more like you're roleplaying her and less like you're experiencing what she's experiencing. But all that is only in comparison to the previous two titles. This is still a great adventure game with a strong story with good dialogue (but easy puzzles). I'm hoping the next game from the developer explores the sleepwalker character because that could really open up the universe.