Posted on: October 2, 2018
Danster
Games: Reviews: 3
A strangely resonnating piece
Dear Lord, if I had ever been told I would suppress tears in front of an Hidden Object game! This was, to me, a very beautiful game. The soundtrack, in particular, fits perfectly the journey: sometimes cheerful, then sombering into a quite dark and moving evocation of the life of a little child in the final chapter. I was delighted by the tightly handcrafted experience that I was offered: a lot of the elements of the scenes responded to my interactions, in a manner I had not seen since the Freddi Fish glory days. Despite the sometimes amateurish finition, the only part I really had reservation was toward the abrupt ending, sadly pretty usual to the genre, but especially startling in such an absorbing game. In all honesty, I do not know if there was any way to properly end that charming adventure. In fact, I think the authors achieved something very rare, with an incredibly genuine evocation of childhood remote from a lot of adult tropes. The cutscenes “explaining” the plot were probably unneeded, and I wished the developpers had had the confidence they were delivering something so special visually (the attention to details is really insane, if you take the time to look at it) it may have been left open to interpretation. It has been a few days now that I have spent the three hours I needed to play it from start to finish. Not a few hours go by that I do not recount my time spent with this strange little game.
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