The perfect cave painting - approaches casual efforts by toddlers born thousands of years ago in the Lascaux caves. Seriously, it took him 20 years. And yes, it's awesome. I was gifted this game and I have played (and completed) it before, and I cheated and it took me over 150 hours. I think it is simple. If you don't play grimoire, if you don't purchase it, you don't deserve it. You don't deserve to hate it. If you don't like it, you're still on the other side of the fence. That's all there is to it. You've never played anything like this before and you never will. The Lead Dev, that Neanderthal, he put in crazy efforts, pointed micro-issue tracking and honestly insane amount of efforts to bring this game to YOU. Grimoire was my drug of choice for 3 months. I don't even drink coffee. When 2019 started, I thought I might try out grimoire. I started at the end of January and I have no idea where the next 3 months went. Cleve's warning in the video came true. People started asking about me during those 3 months, and more than a few were surprised at me having the gall to call them friends after my cold shoulder. Honestly, I remember nothing except grimoire from those three months. As to whether that story was a warning or something in jest or just entertainment, idk. There's more to Cleve than meets the eye and I'll be the first to say that anyone who says he really "gets" Cleve has like a couple of shelves left to read for context. Would I do this all over, spend my time playing this video game, effectively erase three months from my life and then come whine about it on GOG and get mocked by people? Maybe they'll even question me thinking about the game, thinking I'm probably an insane idiot who somehow got a PC in his hands and managed to vomit gibberish. Grimoire does not haunt me anymore, but I'd be lying if I said that it doesn't take me for a five-minute (minimum!) spin in my own head whenever I am (un?)fortunate enough to think about it. Yes, yes I would.
