Mira

For a one-time experience, this was a delightful one. Not unlike any point-and-click adventure game or visual novel, I have ever played due to the way it presents itself with glorious hand-painted backgrounds and character art that are beautifully animated and have a unique layout with the ways the character have the side of their face turn away in front of you. Despite some translation issues, the story was enjoyable and very interesting to understand with many imaginative lore building and exploration. The music is mysterious and hopeful. The point-and-click aspect is very light, and puzzles are fairly easy (except for the last 2). I did find sometimes the UI doesn't respond when I want to click on things or make dialogue decisions, but if I don't hover over it after a while, it fixes itself out. If you like what you see from the images and trailers, you shouldn't hibernate and just buy Mira, but set your expectations low as this is a short game, and it kind of ended with some questions left unanswered that would have hoped there would have to be a sequence by now. A suggestion I would make if you ended up playing this unusual hidden game, appreciate it for what it is and th…

Gorgeous game. Thank you!

Beautifully illustrated story game

The art is pretty, and I like the premise of the story—especially learning the folklore aspect of the game. It was the core of why I got the game. I like the concepts, but I think the execution needs work. The art by itself is worth the official price of the game (I got it on sale for $3, original is $10), but I wouldn't want to replay it because most of the puzzles (only one has some pattern you could recognize) could only be done through trial and error and it takes a long time to do. For this reason, I could only speak of the ending I got for the story aspect—if there are multiple endings. If anything, it might've helped if the player has context of the folklore (in context of the puzzles, they actually have a menu that gives information of the folklore), or what the runes mean. If the developers wanted a general audience to play through, which if the lore menu is anything to go by, that they are, one way they could've gone about it is to have the player learn the runes meanings somewhere in the game. I liked the story of the game. But the ending was disappointing. It was abrupt, and I couldn't tell if it was a good or bad end. I guess it's one of those that's meant to leav…

Not much in the form of actual gameplay. Just some very simple puzzles. If you like visual novels might want to give it a try. Beautiful hand painted art and animations that remind me of picture books. I enjoyed discovering all the lore.

Sound: 6 Graphics: 7 Story: 6 Gameplay: 5 Commands: 6 Fun: 6 Time to load / lag: 8 Bugs / Problems: 9 Final score: 6