...in the literal sense. The artwork in this game is absolutely stunning, 11/10. The soundscape is also very enjoyable (but let's forget about whatever happened to the audio in the final cutscene - did some accidentally dial in the worst compression settings?). However, the game is not very challenging, and while there appear to be some optional parts that require more skill, it's easy to miss them. The game might be directed more towards casual players but I usually want to find everything in a game, and this game does its best at not distracting from the "easy" default path. I sometimes wanted to go back because I might have found some extra branch, but it was already too late - I passed some one-way geometry and had to move on. Apart from that, it was an enjoyable four-hour journey.
The jokes are right up my alley (most of the time). I prefer slightly more high-res graphics even when it comes to retro (effectively this game is 160x90 pixels, I grew up with 320x200) but they are still acceptable and nice. All in all we had a lot of fun solving the puzzles, although we came across two major issues: - Regular instances of pixel hunting. Sometimes we overlooked important items and thus got stuck. - Surprising new conversation options after talking to someone for the second time (when you would normally expect that there are no new options) or other modifications to screens that you would probably not think of returning to. But even with these flaws, it's still a rather nice game and the money was well spent. Somewhere between 3 and 4 stars.
