Edited on: September 20, 2025
Posted on: October 24, 2021
Yes, this is an experience, a sort of interactive movie and not a game - but even on their own store page Freebird never claimed to be anything but that. So I completely fail to understand the complaint. We all know what we are into when buying a Freebird game, don't we? And if we don't like such experiences we simply won't buy them. Still there is a target group for these kind of games , too and I am a part of it. I cried like crazy at the end of To The Moon and also really enjoyed the specials and Finding Paradise. Bird story is nothing as epic or memorable but still nice imo.
When I watched the trailer of Impostor Factory I hoped and expected to see the main characters Eva and Neill from the prvious games again and so I was a little bit disappointed when this was not the case. After a while however I liked the new characters as well. The story starts slow, gets really confusing and after a big WTF moment it leads to a section that feels a bit like To The Moon ... then it gets different again until the big bang that makes everything clear ... well, almost everything. The story again is humorous, emotional, touching and deeply humane. It also asks a lot of philosophical questions so I would say it has something for everybody., even though Neill and Eva are missing and as another reviewer stated, the replacements long cat and ricebot don't stand a chance to replace them.
(Here I originally complained about the bad German translation of the game (which reduced a star for me) but since they fixed it I change my review to 5 starts rating and no complaint :))