..Why did they draw Rex's (a rat) anus in 2 stils where he steals the ring like that?..
Beyond being whiplashed especially after playing the game which was made in such soft almost lofi artstyle for hours
The solution was right there - to not draw it or just draw a normal X like everyone else does in these artstyles
What the ♥♥♥♥?..

Crap where you just read a load of stuff. Just click the mouse a few times here and there. Boring.

Sorry but this game is just lame. There's basically two puzzle sections in the game, and only the second one is at all interesting. The rest of the gameplay is just really boring point-and-click fetch quest stuff. The story seems interesting but the game doesn't even finish it. The art is all this game has going for it.

Overall, it's a nice & short game with good graphic, nice music and well made characters but the story stop abruptly with no real ending which is a big disappointment.

The story games story is interesting, the art style is pretty cute, and the puzzles are fun with a balanced increase in difficulty. The things I like about the game pretty much end there though, which is disappointing as I was so excited to play it.

The play-style is your standard point-and-click puzzle solver, with an age rating of "all ages" and main characters that all share the same flat, 2D, Dora-the-Explorer-esque personality. Which is great for children, but adults will find difficulty actually caring enough to pay attention. On the opposite hand, a lot of the puzzles will be too difficult for a child of Dora's age group to solve on their own. Most all ages game's I've played and enjoyed do the opposite for a reason- they dumb down the game-play to make it easy for the kids, but beef up the story to intrigue the adults, as most smaller children won't care for the story anyway and just want to click everything.

All of this I was willing to look past, and I managed to enjoy a decent bit of the game I think, but they ended the story on such a cliffhanger that it tainted the whole game and left a sour taste in my mouth. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a decent cliffhanger every once in a while, and I understand the need to leave at least part of the game open-ended to build interest for a sequel.

Notice I said, part of the game. This isn't a well done "here's a small twist, or a few unanswered questions. Come back later for more." This was a "we got bored and decided to drop everything at the climax. Come back in 2-3 years and we might have more for you." NOTHING was resolved, MORE questions were added, and the whole thing honestly felt like a slap in the face. All that work scrambling around solving puzzles to understand even LESS than when you started, and the only way to maybe get more answers is to pay for a whole other game.

Imagine any of your favorite games, then imagine if the developer took out half the game, and sold it to you at the same price as the half, maybe even more due to inflation, several years later. It just feels wrong, and I can't, in good conscious, recommend to anyone to play a game like that regardless of how well it is (or isn't) designed.

I have some really mixed feelings about this game. There are a lot of positives, but in the end I found the negatives outweighed them.

First, the good things. The game is beautiful, I love the art style (super adorable) and the music was really nice. There were no bugs or glitches, the game ran very smoothly with no issues. I like the characters and was quite invested in the plot. The puzzles in the old ruins you go to are overall quite fun.

Now the negatives. Endless meaningless fetch quests. I know that most adventure games have this issue, but it's especially bad in this game. The entire middle of the game (which is MOST of the game) is just continuous fetch quests all with the same goal. Nairi needs to get somewhere and people keep saying they will help her if she does something for them. This just goes on and on and on. And there aren't really any puzzles during the fetch quests, you just have to keep talking to people and occasionally combine a couple items.

While the old ruins you visit are the highlight of the game (they have actual puzzles you need to solve) there are a few puzzles at the very end that are unnecessarily cryptic. To be able to solve a puzzle I need to know what the puzzle even is and there were a couple times where I honestly had no idea what the game wanted me to do.

Now the major issue, the one that ultimately made me decide not recommend this game. The plot, and specifically the end. I won't spoil anything but this was one of the most unsatisfying endings I have ever encountered. This is simply the first chapter of the story and as a result it just randomly ends with absolutely no resolution. And I mean NO resolution. Now, there are some times where you can get away with this, and I assume the creators were going for an episodic storytelling method, but this isn't one of those times. Cliffhangers like this are appropriate only when the player (or reader, watcher, etc.) is going to be able to consume the next part of the story fairly soon. It keeps them hooked and excited for the week or month it takes for the next episode to come out and for the story to continue. But this game came out in 2018 (4 years ago at time of writing) and the second chapter still isn't out yet. So all that this cliff hanger does is make me incredibly frustrated. When making a series you always need to make sure that each part of that series has a coherent narrative of it's own, with a beginning middle and end. You leave some things unresolved for the future installments, but the story has to stand on its own. I can watch Star Wars IV and be satisfied. This game just left me annoyed.

It was hard for me to decide whether or not I would recommend this game, since I did like the graphics, and while I did enjoy the puzzles, some of them were a bit too difficult, and the story line was okay- though it was a little confusing at times for me to follow through.

Ultimately I decided not to recommend this game since I really dislike how games want to leave a cliffhanger ending, in hopes of making a "sequel" game down the line. This game was released in 2018. They do have an estimated release date of 2022, however, four years is way too far of a time gap to anticipate wanting to play another game from this developer. Especially since there is no voice acting, which I feel like games should always have that.

In addition, certain parts of the game were very tedious. I am not smart when it comes to game maps, and having to go back and forth, constantly making wrong turns since I can't keep track of where I need to go, overall I feel very mixed about this game. One thing for sure, I wouldn't play it again.

A run of the mill point-and-click game.
I also feel like it just wastes my time with a lot of "..." dialogue and slow screen transitions, and completely empty unneeded screens.
And if you make it to the middle... I really hope you like fetch quests.
the end has some "hard" puzzles, they are just annoying to solve

and that's just gameplay, the story is also bad because it's just THE FIRST HALF, it ends on a cliffhanger. NOTHING GETS RESOLVED.

I hate it, wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

This is very much a different strokes for different folks sort of review. I ultimately struggled to finish the game, not because of difficulty (because it is almost insultingly easy for the first 90% or so of the game), but because the plot, dialogue, and above all else, the art style, made me want to run off to some cloistered, rocky monastery somewhere and leave civilization behind.

Aesthetics are important in a game, and I just absolutely LOATHE the beads of sweat flying off from a pinched face to indicate stress style of anime. It's just irritating to me, on a primal level. I thought that maybe good gameplay would overcome my negative feelings about this style of art, but it's WAY too simple for so much of its length, and the "plot" twists are nonsensical and poorly explained (come to think of it, there are very few characters in here that exist on any level beyond the superficial and simplistic). To top it all off, it ends on a cliff-hanger.

Look, if really basic (and I mean REALLY basic) anime style artwork that looks like it was thrown together by a grade-school kid trying to emulate anime doesn't turn you off, and silly, simplistic dialogue and a nonsensical plot that also seems like it was created by a pre-pubescent doesn't turn you off, more power to you. I am obviously not the target audience.

Not recommended, but hey, maybe this sort of thing really floats your boat. Thank goodness I got this in a bundle.

At first glance, NAIRI: Tower of Shirin seems like a perfect game to play with a kid. At second glance, not so much so. It's a visual novel with some very slight point n click puzzle elements. Gameplay is pretty much just clicking through dialogue boxes and exploring different, nicely drawn, screens of locations - and exploration is made tedious by the weird sense of direction this game employs in moving between locations. Sometimes, the spot you have to click to get where you want is more based on trial and error than on knowing your way around. Graphics, especially the critter design, are cute but I wonder who the target audience is. Small children will get bored by the threadbare gameplay and I feel that the gameplay is by no means challenging enough for an adult. I am afraid that the only target audience for Nairi are people who are no longer children but not yet adults and ... furries.