Lorelai, by Harvester Games, is the conclusive part of R. Michalski's Devil Came Through Here adventure game trilogy, alongside The Cat Lady (2012) and Downfall (2016).
Posted on: March 21, 2025
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Gry: 373 Opinie: 18
Epic start, and epic fail!
I expected a lot! Beautiful main menu screen with nice and catchy song, stylish. Whole first act is great. Visualy nice stylized 2D graphic, evolution of style from Downfall and Cat Lady. Good music and voice acting, fine writing. Gameplay same as in Cat lady, light walking on 2D areas, taking, using items, talking with people. Minus are crazy graphic requirements for 2D game! You are Lorelai, young girl living with drinking mother and psychopatic macho boyfriend of her mother. Living with them is not easy, but your new job maybe help you to get away from them. But things can be much much worse. Story was great, until you get into the world of Queen of Maggot, character from Cat Lady game. Things make less and less sense. Dialogs and writings are worse and worse. There are optional silly tasks which have no effect on your progress and also few moral choices, which surprisely have no impact on story neither. But lately in game you met with mysterious character which give you very odd task, to do one bizarre thing which is totaly against friendly nature of your character, just cause its for good, and you weirdly accept that! No comment. Story has so many holes that i cant believe that game was complete on release day. Gives me a strong feeling that came out too soon and lot of story things just missing. Good example is puzzle from the end of game, it can be solved by two ways, one easy, second is much more complicated. So I expect some impact, different result or maybe different ending, but game acts same way as if you use easy solution. Really? Ending was fail too, makes no sense, and explain nothing at all. You can get slightly different ending and extra dialog depending on who you saved during game, but in the end game ignores all your moral choices. Why? Awesome first 25% of game, and technicaly also great, but the rest of this game is so flappy. Beggining rocks, so how could quality fall down like this? Lack of money or time to development? Score: 50%
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