To The Moon

The story and soundtrack really made this game for me. I felt like I was watching a movie the whole time and I cried throughout. Now I get that the dialogue for Neil and Eva was supposed to be funny comedic relief and maybe they are funny to other pleayers but to me it almost ruined the experience. I actually almost quit the game many times because of their unfunny dialogue. The characters themselves would be lovable to me if there was better balance with their comedy in this game. Another issue I had was the game always telling me where to go with arrows and telling me how to walk every time a new scene ended. It was too hand holdy for me but that's a personal preference. Otherwise this game is worth playing for the story and soundtrack alone. Definitely good for players who want a game that's light on puzzles and gameplay elements with a focus on story.

This is one of those games that does not stand the test of time. Admittedly, I heard it had a good story which is why I checked it out. It is an RPG Maker game and I've played plenty. What really destroys this game is its horrible gameplay. In most RPG Maker games, you can actually run. Here, your character moves slow and the reason why that's important is because you spend most of the game doing countless fetch quests where your walking around an environment and clicking all over the place. Not to mention that in most RPG Maker games, you can click "Z" to interact with items and you just can't do that here which makes the controls very archaic. It doesn't help that the controls are not always responsive either. Unfortunately one of the main characters, Dr. Watts, just proves to be annoying and an overall jerk. Imagine going to a mortuary and having the person there just make dumb and lame jokes about your deceased loved ones in a vain attempt to be funny. And that's exactly what this is: constant unprofessional cringe dialogue ruining a somewhat interesting story regarding the client and his wife. Then there's these really lame block puzzles that you have to do just to advance the plot. In essence, this game would have been way better as a visual novel rather than all this pointless slow walking and clicking which serve little purpose. These bad gameplay elements may have been okay for the time this game released, but I simply can't recommend this game to anyone nowadays.

I bought this because I heard of so many people saying that it "hit them in the feels". Unfortunately, it only hit me in the nethers. This felt like someone had an interesting seed for a short story (which is why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1), but thought somehow they had to wrap it in something game-like to make anyone care about it. You click to move your characters, but there's no way to do it wrong. There's no reason you need to do it at all. It's as if you were playing a visual novel, and it required you to click several times through blank boxes before you got the next bit of text. Eventually you have to click around to get items to move on to the next part, but that part requires no thought either. There are puzzles you have between sections. Do these puzzles help you understand the characters? The plot? The world? Not that I can tell. I can only guess they exist to have something game-ish to do. The dialogue is often cliche', the jokes are not what you see in most anime and sitcoms. When dialogue is trying to move the plot along, often the characters don't talk like normal people, presumably to keep things mysterious, but it's so awkward. The music is fine. The discovery of what is going on between the characters is at least a step above typical plots, but I never got close to bursting into tears or what have you, and I have cried at movies like Big Fish, so I'd like to think I'm not a heartless bastard. So all your enjoyment is likely to hinge on whether or not the surprise means anything to you. I bought it on sale, and I still regret the few hours I spent on it.

this is short but one of the best thought up stories I've seen, honestly I hope they make another it had feeling i haven't seen since Chrono Trigger, FF7, or Xenogears. The art is right out of RPG's of that era too, very well made up sprites looking foward to another.

To The Moon will evoke your emotions with its wonderful storytelling and equally wonderful music. Just let me remind you of its adventure game gameplay. Don't expect action segments. Let yourself be immersed. I'd recommend completing this relatively short game in one day for maximum impact. I wouldn't want you to forget anything. I spent the full $9.99, but when I consider how I've spent more money on movies that can't even compete with To The Moon... I win.