Petit Island

Petit Island

View Stats:
Erica3660 Nov 16, 2024 @ 5:41am
Initial thoughts
So i just finished the proloque and already the small annoyances or odd choices made by the devs are building up. I have had this game on my wishlist for awhile and followed them on social media, and i was really excited to play it. But so far i'm not very impressed... I will keep playing a bit more before deciding if this game is for me or nah but for now here is some thoughts i had:

- 4 unskippable screens before the game. please let us skip them. I don't need to sit through that more than once to understand who made the game and with what.

- Why is the terminal after we land so empty? There is literally only 1 person with luggage getting off the plane? We have a person with only a laptop (no luggage), someone renting a scooter (no luggage) before having to go on the very tiny tram over water??? why not just rent it on the mainland

- You can barely interract with anything, it's just an empty facade, like you can't sit anywhere or pick stuff up on the beach, like the stupid fallen lawn chair. can't inspect any of the store fronts and there are no people working in most of them? Why even have these buildings. There is a giant playground and you can't get on anything :<

- speaking of empty facades i don't get why the buildings fade out when you look at them like they are ghosts in mario getting scared. Makes me feel like im walking around in a ghost town (also might be a bug i don't know)

- Why is the 3 trash items, we have to collect getting big red exlamation marks above them and being marked on the map? The beach isn't even that big... let me explore and find them on my own, this just feels like baby gameplay.

- On that note why does it take 2 cutscenes to show the same thing, she notices her phone is missing and then it takes another one to notice her credit card in the phone holder is also missing? Hello??? Anyone who keeps their credit card in their phone would notice right away if the phone was gone. I don't get why we needed to get shown this twice, especially since they literally zoom in on the phone with the credit card visible in the first cutscene... Again baby mode activated.

- lastly i don't get with all the babying and tutorials why there isn't a prompt to accept going on the tram after the initial cutscene, like if you go over and talk to the tram conductor after arriving on the main island he immediately takes you back over with a cut to black without giving you the choice to upt out of it. Why not have a prompt after the voice lines like "So are you getting on or not?".

Overall i'm feeling a bit iffy about this game but i will keep giving it a bit more time to warm up to me, but these were just some of the things that bothered me the moment i started playing. It is still a very gorgeous game, and all the little animations and cutscenes are all very well done, the gameplay is just whats lacking and the details. The immersion you know?
Last edited by Erica3660; Nov 16, 2024 @ 5:50am
< >
Showing 1-2 of 2 comments
Robert Goulet Nov 16, 2024 @ 6:54am 
I'm loving the game so far! It's simple, chill and I like the way it looks.
So far I have no complaints.
Pietoro Nov 17, 2024 @ 3:05pm 
Well, I will agree that the giant exclamation marks are a bit excessive... I'd prefer sparkles or a glowing outline or something more subtle, personally.
< >
Showing 1-2 of 2 comments
Per page: 1530 50