Recent reviews by gayleigh

The music is pretty good, even great at times. This is probably the main reason quite some people like this game. This definitely gave the game a boost in my rating of it.

The animation isn't outstanding or anything, I mean, it's pixel-art, but even for pixel-art, this doesn't look good. The protagonist is in the middle of a tile, even during the cutscenes, so when he picks something up or gives something to someone, it looks weird, which is emplified by the fact that it's done right when he picks up his backpack. The transitions from place to place are done in a strange way, sometimes effectively, sometimes it just looks dumb. Its backgrounds are great though, mostly.

It's in the "game" part that this game fails; the "game" to this game is no more than walking from point A to point B and ocationally pressing directions to move the cutscenes along, which was pretty weird and it felt unnatural to do so. The parts where you walked around from point A to point B also just kind of plop you in like "Hey, remember that this is a game? Good. Now roll the next cutscene." It felt especially weird with the arrow keys showing up on screen after every cutscene, even though I had been using my controller for the past half an hour. If this were to be a YouTube short film, I'd say this is good, but it's a game, for which you have to pay 4 dollars (or pounds or euros or whatever), which is a bit expensive for what it is. The game drags on for way too long at times, it gets really boring.

It certainly doesn't help that the times that you do walk around, your movement is very limited and stiff. First of all, you have to use either a controller or the arrow keys, not WASD, which isn't a big problem, but it sucks you can't just change that in the settings. Second of all, you're being taken down a path, and there are invisable walls sprinkled across the place for no good reason I can think of. Third of all, and most importantly, you move from tile to tile. I thought we fixed this like 10 years ago!? Why is this still a thing? You can't go diagonally and you can't input-buffer your directions. This was frustrating to sit through for a person like me.

I don't know why the creators of this game decided not to add any dialog, but I find this to be an unnecessary detail. Like, it's implied that they talk, so why not just add some words and not by unnecessarily cryptic? The images in the speech bubbles were clear as day anyway, so just typing up a sentence wouldn't have made this a less complex work or whatever.

One particular thing that A: pissed me off and B: made my opinion of this game sink even deeper, was a flashback. We were just being chased around by the nurse lady (because "comedy") and should know full well that the kid should've left the bird at the hospital with her, or at least that the nurse lady wants to get the bird into the hospital, and then the boy sees that the bird can't fly, so of course, we, as the viewe- Ahem, sorry, "player", would think that the kid will probably bring it back to the vet. And then they throw in the flashback. Like, we know this, and if anyone reading this didn't, you weren't paying attention, or you didn't play up to that point yet. That was one of the main plot points of this story, and after just being reminded a couple of seconds ago, we apparently still need a flashback. ARGH, that pissed me off. So did the sloppy attempts at comedy by the way, but that's probably partialy due to the grumpy mood THIS GAME put me into... A-Anyway.

Final thoughts:
Just go watch a playthrough of this on YouTube if you really want to know the story, and there is no more to this than just the story. Markiplier or jacksepticeye probably played this. It's free like that anyway. That's closer to the price this is actually worth.

2/10.

This is very fun game to play, especially if you're mad or stressed. You can just punch the ♥♥♥♥ out of everything! It's extremely easy to play, but it get very hard the further you get. The only downside, to me, is that you can't turn off the soundeffects, so that you can't hear the buildings being put down or the guys being punched, so I wouldn't be able to listen to a podcast or something in the background, but that's not that much of a problem, sense you can just turn it off in the audio options on your PC, or, at least, I can. You can, however, turn off the music and the voice, but not the soundeffects, which confuses me, but it's fine.

If you love open world adventures, this is a great recommendation!
The best moments in this game are diffidently with friends though!