Posted on: June 22, 2015

mimiayako

Jeux: 179 Avis: 1

Charming but hollow

It seemed like an interesting little gem from afar. I got drawn by the puzzle proclamation. Sure, Lily looking through, offers you just that. Puzzles (and not a lot, mind you). Also, throw in beautiful art and aerie repetitive music just to seal the deceptive deal. No real story though (maybe I'm missing the big picture or in that case, the minimalist setup). I don't really mind almost-dialogue-free games. I guess it serves a purpose of immersion (?) but badly incorporated in this one. The end... Cliffhanger? Unfinished? Episodic plan maybe. Who knows and who cares? For sure, I won't be around if ever there's a follow-up. Bottom line, Lily looking through is a great effort of Indie gaming but it didn't really feel completely fleshed out. So short and not worth the hour or so put into playing it. Hence, making you more frustrated through out the whole ''experience'' and just plain disgusted at the end. My opinion here.

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Posted on: July 5, 2015

dandelionseed

Jeux: 1 Avis: 2

Beautiful, incomplete.

There was a time in which I thought gaming meant, by definition, being a first person shooter or battle strategy enthusiast (which I am not). By chance I found Samorost/Samorost 2, and from there Machinarium, and from there the entire spectrum of indie/adventure/puzzle games which both piqued my interest and expanded my definition. I mention this to point out that a lot of the flaws other reviewers found in this game -- short length, pixel hunting, repetitive actions, progress-slowing animations -- brought me back to that first time I played Samorost, inspiring more happy nostalgia than frustration. I can not overstate how much I loved playing this game. The art is gorgeous, reminiscent of both film animation and fine children's books. The gameplay mostly exists to support/further the art, but if you're into the atmosphere that can be surprisingly ok. Why, then, the low star rating? It's all about the ending. There's so little to this style of game that their storylines alone can make or break them. Realistically they are interactive stories more they are proper puzzles. Until the very end, Lilly Looking Through was a simply told story with a low-key undercurrent of suspense. And then ... nothing. No conclusion, no closure, no explanations, no return home, no nothing. The problem is not that the game is short -- wonderful stories can be short -- it's that it's either incomplete or a poorly told tale. It would have taken very little to give Lilly a reasonably satisfying conclusion while still leaving it open to sequels, if the creators so desired. Shortening it by a chapter would have nearly accomplished this by itself. Having chosen instead so ambiguous and abrupt an ending is confusing, frustrating, and was, in the end, destructive to the quality of the game itself.

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Posted on: March 18, 2014

Xeres666

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Jeux: 198 Avis: 5

atmospheric but too short

The good: It does look very nice. The places you visit almost look like a myst game. The background musik fits and puzzles are not too simple or too hard. The titular game mechanic is interesting . The bad: It is quite short. If you play adventures often, you will need 3-4 hours tops. There is kind of a story, but the game begins and ends too abruptly, giving you only a glimpse of a wondrous world. Beware: color blind may have a disadvantage. Buy if it's on sale or you have an rainy evening to get past.

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Posted on: September 19, 2014

ultraling

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Jeux: 25 Avis: 1

Nice artwork, gameplay lacking

Bought this for the kids. The artwork is beautiful, it's sort of a click-thru story, but the mechanics of the game are unfortunately lacking. Main complaints: 1. the kids got stuck on a puzzle, I tried it & couldn't figure it out (what thing am I supposed to click on that I'm not clicking on?? Yeah I've played thru several zeldas, I get puzzle games), that was GAME OVER for us. 2. some of the puzzles require you to tediously click thru several steps in sequence. If you get a step wrong, the puzzle resets and you have to click thru the SLOW sequence of steps all over. This just gets boring if you're stuck on a puzzle-- each attempt iteration simply takes too long. Add more hints for kids or make the things to click on more obvious in time or something, & make it so you can iterate thru the puzzles a bit quicker.

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Posted on: September 5, 2015

SLP2000

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Jeux: Avis: 6

Nice but short

LLT is a nice demo of a game that should be. Graphics are lovely, gameplay is ok, but it's too short to be called a complete game.

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