Bye Sweet Carole

Beautiful game and amazing story. Everyone who worked on this game did a phenomenal job on this game!

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I really really wish I liked this game more. It's got a very distinct, effective, and striking art style. Unfortunately the gameplay sections didn't jive with me. I felt like moving and interacting with objects felt too slow. The "monsters" chasing you while you are solving puzzles did not really add a "scare factor" but made the tasks more tedious. The puzzles themselves were pretty good. The story was solid enough to carry you to the end. Overall it lands at a 6/10 for me. I do recommend it because I think the dev's deserve people at least trying the game if only for the art itself.

After the game crashed, and I had several deaths due to the controls not responding fast enough for the QUEs, I was already stressed, and then I failed three times at another QUE where I was using the controls correctly, but I still failed and died. I got half an hour in.

There are a lot of things to like, but there are a lot of things to dislike. Do adventure games need minigame segments that fail to help tell the story? Do they need obnoxious boss fights with extremely basic and quite terrible combat? I just don't think this is worth the playthrough. It's a frustrating experience, to say the least. Point & Click games can get by on the strength of their characters, writing, and puzzle design. They don't need to be any more mechanically complex. And this isn't even all that complex! The ability to move boxes around and climb up and down staircases is very simple, but also pointless! The puzzles, if you can call them that, are entirely telegraphed by the camera and amount to nothing more than "push N buttons in M order". Bugs: Several times while playing, my button inputs completely stopped working and I had to exit to the main menu and restart from wherever I was checkpointed. After playing for a few hours I was actually stuck in an infinite loading screen and had to ALT+F4. No idea how that sort of thing happens. The voice acting? Not *great* by any means, but serviceable. The animation? Well, what animation *is* there is good; but for a fully-…

I bought this game because I thought this art style could be truly impressive in a game if done correctly. It wasn't quite what I expected- I thought I'd be mainly playing through a disney style cartoon with quick time events and such with puzzles in between. Not quite, it's a side scrolling non-action game, but with beautiful visuals and artwork. No problem there. But the gameplay itself was very boring. Go to one side of the area, get an item, remember something from before to figure out what it's used for, go to the opposite side and use it. Rinse and repeat over and over. But in between you had to hide from the monsters over and over. I HATE stealth games. And even though this was less annoying than most stealth games, having to go back and forth and constantly hide was still annoying. Then finally I got to this point where there are endlessly spawning rabbits trying to get her, but you're playing as her assistant trying to defend her (with an actual attack button!) while she cranks and cranks (on a crank) trying to bring down a bucket to rescue you or something. And I audibly said "Well, this is a nice change of pace." But then I defended her for definitely over 10…