Under The Moon

1 star may be mean as it may be a good game if you can get into it, I just can't do anything and there's no indication of what to do. You're a male character who is immediately abandoned by his love, she says find the clue items. You can move jump or press interact. Interact doesn't seem to do anything at any place anywhere I can find. There's no indication what the clue items are or how to find them, or any kind of indication of what to do. As I say it may be because I've missed something obvious but I doubt it. Low rating due to completely opaque start I cannot figure out.

...It's a hunt-the-pixel game. First of all, between the computer-generated voices in cutscenes and the poor grammar, there's not really anything in this game apart from the riddles. Second, the riddles are not hard ("I am a black hole, but on the ground, not on the sky"). Third, "inputing" the answer to the riddle is tedious. You need to hunt for the single object that you know is the answer across a double-digit number of screens surrounded by invisible walls. Some answer objects are tiny and oddly shaped. Your character can only walk (very slowly) OR run (slowly), so it takes much longer to communicate your answer than it does to solve the riddles.

Pros Details of the scenery in the levels is really well-done. Water details on the northern lands map was amazing. Many unique details throughout the levels, scenery and npc interactions. Game is short, two hours tops to complete it. It has cats! Cons Puzzle clues can be obscure Puzzle objects can be obscure Can be tedious searching the map for those hidden objects Poor grammar/translations and AI voiceovers - I think the game is originally in Turkish (?) which might explain this. Last puzzle completed notification was in Turkish, not in English (selected language), so needs a little polishing. Music can be repetitious. You cannot pet the cats. I gave this 3 stars for effort, and the work that went into the textures and details of the game. As a freebie, I had low expectations for it and my expectations were met, but not exceeded. Perfect short-term, low-stress distraction.

Bad voice acting, no clues how and where to find the objects (a tutorial would be nice) no explanations to solve the ridles, slow movement of character. Music is fine, so I give the game one star for that, oherwise zero.