Length: 3.2 hours.
Enjoyment: 2/10.
Story: Bad.
Characters: Dumb.
Graphics: Great.
Gameplay: 2D story-driven casual platformer.
Audio: Alright.
Bugs:
- Movement felt clunky throughout the entire game.
- Chapter 8 has a bug that occurred to me as well as to multiple other people according to steam community. Once you reach a certain point, it restarts to the checkpoint by itself and sometimes creates your clone that you can go through. Then, once you progress a little it kills you, teleports you a little lower, then keeps on killing you over and over again. You can't do anything except watch. If you manage to get past this, activating a platform that takes you to the next area also triggers this effect but instead of killing you it keeps doing the death animation and you cannot progress. Restarting the entire chapter doesn't fix it. Broken ass game.
If you have this bug, I managed to get through it by doing this: I ran through the falling weights, climbed the rope, ran across the falling weights and waited on the wooden platform so it reset me to the same spot. Then I waited for them to finish the dialogue, climbed the rope, jumped across and ran to the platform you need to activate to reach the next area until I saw the save icon. Then I activated the platform, let the bug play a couple times so I landed on the platform again then ESC>quit and launched the game again. It took me two chapter restarts to figure out but this fixed it for me..
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Little Orpheus is a game about Ivan Ivanov and his adventures. It has great graphics, beautiful environments with even better looking landscapes. It has interesting locations, different mechanics in the chapters and the dialogue is fun to listen to but it all falls short in the end. The story is bad. Well, it starts fun and it continues to be fun with every chapter even though you get hints here and there on what the story is based upon until it completely plummets at the culmination. You see, this game is a really casual platformer, and the only thing that pushes you forward is the story, so if the story is not worth the time then there is really no point in playing it at all. For me, the views alone don't sell it. You go along this entire adventure waiting to see how it ends and it just doesn't deliver. It doesn't deliver anything. Not only does it not deliver anything it also breaks the entire immersion of the time period and destroys the personality of one of the characters to at least somehow fit their weird ending.

If you forget the story's end, everything leading up to that point was enjoyable. The views and scenery were honestly fantastic. The gameplay was simple but fun. It did have a bug so gamebreaking in chapter 8 even restarting the chapter altogether didn't fix it. It's almost as if it was ignored during production, not to mention ignored until almost a year after release.

TLDR;
Beautiful scenery, simple story-driven platformer with an awful culmination. I'd pass on it.

[b]Length:[/b] 3.2 hours. [b]Enjoyment:[/b] 2/10. [b]Story:[/b] Bad. [b]Characters:[/b] Dumb. [b]Graphics:[/b] Great. [b]Gameplay:[/b] 2D story-driven casual platformer. [b]Audio:[/b] Alright. [b]Bugs:[/b] - Movement felt clunky throughout the entire game. - Chapter 8 has a bug that occurred to me as well as to multiple other people according to steam community. Once you reach a certain point, it restarts to the checkpoint by itself and sometimes creates your clone that you can go through. Then, once you progress a little it kills you, teleports you a little lower, then keeps on killing you over and over again. You can't do anything except watch. If you manage to get past this, activating a platform that takes you to the next area also triggers this effect but instead of killing you it keeps doing the death animation and you cannot progress. Restarting the entire chapter doesn't fix it. Broken ass game. If you have this bug, I managed to get through it by doing this: [spoiler]I ran through the falling weights, climbed the rope, ran across the falling weights and waited on the wooden platform so it reset me to the same spot. Then I waited for them to finish the dialogue, climbed the rope, jumped across and ran to the platform you need to activate to reach the next area until I saw the save icon. Then I activated the platform, let the bug play a couple times so I landed on the platform again then ESC>quit and launched the game again. It took me two chapter restarts to figure out but this fixed it for me.[/spoiler]. ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵐʸ ᶠᶦʳˢᵗ ᵖˡᵃʸᵗʰʳᵒᵘᵍʰ Little Orpheus is a game about Ivan Ivanov and his [i]adventures[/i]. It has great graphics, beautiful environments with even better looking landscapes. It has interesting locations, different mechanics in the chapters and the dialogue is fun to listen to but it all falls short in the end. The story is bad. Well, it starts fun and it continues to be fun with every chapter even though you get hints here and there on what the story is based upon until it completely plummets at the culmination. You see, this game is a really casual platformer, and the only thing that pushes you forward is the story, so if the story is not worth the time then there is really no point in playing it at all. For me, the views alone don't sell it. You go along this entire adventure waiting to see how it ends and it just doesn't deliver. It doesn't deliver anything. Not only does it not deliver anything it also breaks the entire immersion of the time period and destroys the personality of one of the characters to at least somehow fit their weird ending. If you forget the story's end, everything leading up to that point was enjoyable. The views and scenery were honestly fantastic. The gameplay was simple but fun. It did have a bug so gamebreaking in chapter 8 even restarting the chapter altogether didn't fix it. It's almost as if it was ignored during production, not to mention ignored until almost a year after release. TLDR; Beautiful scenery, simple story-driven platformer with an awful culmination. I'd pass on it.