Minute of Islands

I really wanted to like this game more. Great drawings, solid and fitting soundtrack, the setting got potential too. Alas, the lame, monotonous gameplay consisting of simple platforming that feels and controls rather lethargic and a few easy puzzles left me pretty bored. Also it's told in a pseudo-melancholic/nostalgic tone that absolutely didn't click with me, probably because you never get any chance to relate with the characters or story at all. It stays way too shallow; you start as a stranger in a strange world, meet a few strangers along the way, and leave as a stranger.

While it is true that this game does not make use of all the potential mechanisms that a game brings with it, if one takes it as a piece of media, this makes for a perfectly approachable piece of art that requires the player to take things slowly enough to give space for some deep self-reflection, which is indeed primed often through the game. I didn't particularly appreciate the soundtrack, while I certainly could appreciate the sound design and especially the visuals, which made it look like a hybrid between Nausicaa, eXistenZ, Doug and a Lovecraft novel. If you come in with the right expectation, accepting that not all games will offer hours of difficult puzzles, fast pixel-exact platforming and tons of pointless lore, you will like it as much as I did.

I enjoyed this game very much and had about 12 hours of game-play savoring it all slowly. The graphics are incredible and the story touching. Navigating the game was easy, as it is solving its puzzles. I would not agree that this game is just a story, far from it ! What I did not like in particular is those parts of the game when Mo becomes really negative, depressive and even aggressive and violent in order to get what she wants. That somehow takes away from the game and its poetic narrative and I do not see the reason for that at all.

I hope this game so long but unable to play. I like the style but pitiful that unable to set to 60f in setting, what uses of lower resolutions?? What permission the program has to overdrive HUMAN??!! A bulk of shit! The failure of program.

It lures you in with beautiful visuals but then throws you into bizarre teutonic morbid moralism.