Lorelai is an interesting and yet very flawed game. It tells the story of girl with an awful family and a desire to get way from them. A very interesting theme to explore but it gets bogged down with a lot of unrelated plot threads. In terms of gameplay its very simple, you move your character in a 2D space, you can interact with objects/combine them and you have dialogue choices. All very basic stuff that worked in The Cat Lady. The biggest problem I have is that after chapter 3, the theme of a dysfunctional family gets thrown out of the window and Lorelai spends most of the game in this filler to quest to deal with this evil entity for a reason we are never told. I guess it's a evil entity so we have to kill? The time we spent on this quest could have been use to explore more her family ( her stepdad is almost cartoonishly evil) The chapters themselves also feel very disjointed. Some chapters just feel like they are an one and done episode and don't connect with rest of the narrative. The horror elements are also toned down a lot. If that is an aspect of TCL that you liked you will be disappointed here. The puzzles are very simple more so than the Cat Lady, but I'm fine with that, I prefer them over obtuse puzzles. This is just a nitpick but there are a few references to other games that aren't subtle and take you out of the expereince a little bit, a character says "Praise the Sun" and the character isn't even someone who plays games at all. Overall, I still enjoyed this. There are some good moments and I also like the soundtrack but in terms of characters, story and pacing it's a bit of a mess. But it's still a unique game that I would still recommend buying. The Cat Lady is still my favourite game from this developer.
