Posted on: September 6, 2024
johnsmoth
Verified ownerGames: 30 Reviews: 6
I do not like water
excellent game, as close to perfect as you could hope for from such a small team. A true iteration of the classic genre, maintaining its mouse-only simplicity while adding enough art-direction to feel modern. The cutscenes are clearly done on a budget, but are very well executed and add dimensionality to the story. The pre-rendered backgrounds are masterfully done and I wish more games were still made with this level of love and care. Looking at earlier game footage, I appreciate that they went through the effort of imprioving a lot of the graphical assets after release. The story took a while to catch my interest, and it while the writing and characterisation could have been a little more interesting (the husband/wife relationship is a little flat and uninteresting), I was invested by the end. It's an accessible story. They did a great job with Moses' character. The audio is good and compliments the environments well. I just wish they had someone do some more foley/sound work, as there are several cutscenes that have silence when something VERY LOUD is happening in the scene, and quite a few of the little environmental descriptors that mention big environmental sounds that aren't present. IMO this is something that could be realistically improved without a lot of expense. Gameplay is enjoyable, puzzles are mostly great and the difficulty is about right. I would have loved to have some more branching choices in the game, even if it's something like one or two alternate endings, lore dumps behind missable item interactions etc. These are really minor criticisms of a brilliant game, and the overall formula is GREAT and doesn't need to be changed!
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