The Land Of Lamia

Creative but let down by awful camera angles, terrible controls and finicky puzzles. The characters, Thomas and Lily, weird me out quite a bit but I genuinely like the setting, mystery and art style in the book pages. It's a shame the game was never fully finished. There are only three chapters with gameplay (a maze, matching game and jumping puzzle) which take approximately one hour. I got very frustrated trying to line up the characters, there's only one control to move both of them and they move at different paces so you're constantly juggling and playing catch up.

Gave up on first level after fighting the controls and camera angles. Could have dealt with one or the other, but both being a problem is just too time consuming. I like a game to challenge me, not an interface.

Personally didnt like the controls of controlling both while the camera angle kept moving and just having wasd felt limiting. Maybe one ay ill get to finishing it but after owning this game for three years of not making it past the first walk, i dont know if i wanna play this again.

I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing. Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side. With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of y…

bad game

So this could potentially be a sweet and short puzzle game but it ends up being not-too-accessible and didn't really make me want to put my time into it. (This is one of these games I don't even remember how they got into my library but wanted to understand what's the deal with them) Technically speaking this is not the most impressive game you'll find, even for indie titles from around a decade ago, but it's not really bad, just cheap. I did find the graphics, music, and the whole mysterious guiding-book mechanics intriguing enough to at least want to finish this and give it a try. The thing is the controls are fairly unique and would really test your nerves. Basically you're controlling two characters - brother and sister - you'd move them both simultaneously by using the arrow keys. So far so good. The catch is, the sister would run fast by default. What do we do? We'd press Shift and then the brother would run faster than her. So basically that means throughout the entire game (which consists of 3 levels you'd probably bean in half an hour IF you know what you're doing) you'll have to "balance" their distance on and on. Looks like the puzzles are pretty much based on this me…