Posted on: July 10, 2023

Thysamithan

Games: 940 Reviews: 8

Strong art with unfavourable writing

Insane opnening and strong first half of the game. But then the game sabotages itself with at times completely unintuitive and a few times extremely badly communicated puzzles, seemingly never ending dialogues with little to no essence or importance and progressively selfdestructing writing, which degrades into fully perfected and basically inconsequencial nonsense. All my investment in the backstories and questions were rewarded from the game with a big "La La La, we just make something up and the most implausible possibilities are what actually was happening." It is by no stretch a bad game in any way, but play it for the riddles, the really out there characters and designs and for the often great executed unpredictability of this game, because here it delivers, and it delivers really good. But if you are in search for a story, that respects the at times extremely heavy themes it brings up and tying everything together into a meaningful conclusion, you will not find it here and feel (like me) pretty insulted in a way regarding storytelling, because it devolves practically into full, unironic shlock, which in my opinion is inappropriate in regards to the very heavy themes it wants to lift.

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Posted on: June 23, 2017

wasimpson49

Verified owner

Games: 19 Reviews: 2

Fram Bow, fascinating however...

I wanted to give this game a higher rating because I enojyed it very much. First, it was different from what I normally play (RPG's) and the plot itself kept me very intrigued throughout. You are Fran Bow, a young girl who trying to figure out why horrible things are happening to her and why her parents were killed. You go from the mundane world to fantastic places and experince both wonder and horror. Unfortunately, the game is woefully short and ends abruptly with dozens of questions left unamswered. Hopefully, there will be some DLC in the future, otherwise the replayability is down to zero.

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Posted on: November 8, 2024

happyfire3

Verified owner

Games: 20 Reviews: 1

eh

confusing

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Posted on: July 3, 2025

Tribox0128

Games: 12 Reviews: 2

Does not sync

Cannot play on two computers. It does not sync.

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Posted on: June 20, 2020

HonkMaster007

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 14

Interesting game, terrible ending.

I'll just quote a part of an another review that sums up my feelings perfectly: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Third: The thing that really annoyed me was the ending. It's like the designer just decided they were done with the story now and wanted to go do something else. A bunch of confusing stuff happens quickly with vague explanations, and then suddenly "oh it's over now." It's like if Lord of the Rings ended with Frodo and Sam going off in the rowboat, and Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli say they're going to go look for the other hobbits, and that's all there is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Had I known the ending, I wouldn't get the game - I can't stand games that leave you hanging like that. Literally NOTHING resolved, nothing explained. What the hell. It's a real pity because the rest of the game, everything before the ending, was really great!

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