Posted on: December 10, 2015
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Emotionally and aesthetically engaging
I got this for $2.50 and it was worth that; I'm glad I bought it. I would have been disappointed if I'd paid much more, though: it's only 1 or 2 hours long, with very little replayability. The game is definitely more of an interactive movie or art piece than a true game, let alone a simulation-type game. The interest is in the emotional and aesthetic experience of living out a pretty specific, pre-set story through the mother badger's perspective. It does that pretty well: I felt immersed and emotionally engaged in the story. If you evaluate it as a *game* though, it's a little boring--the game mechanics aren't particularly interesting or fun in their own right. The game has a particular aesthetic which is strongly reminiscent of a certain style of children's picture-book illustrations, which is sort of charming. The slightly whimsical style won't be to everyone's taste, but it's well executed. One neat feature of the game was the way that it comes with no instructions and, once you start the game, involves no words. You just start playing and have to figure things out as you go, and the game is generally set up to ensure that will work. One way it does this is by giving you occasional tips in picture form at relevant times: a representation of how to catch a frog, a warning about a danger from flood waters, etc. Those involve no words and seem to represent your own badger instincts guiding you, which is neat. The one downside of this is that there were one or two cases in which I needed some guidance, but the game didn't give me any, and I was confused about what I was meant to do. During the night-time level, I kept losing babies and had no idea why until I googled a walkthrough. And having to google a walkthrough is precisely *not* the immersive, intuitive experience the game is trying to give you.
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