Whirlight - No Time To Trip

Finished Whirlight - No Time to Die (12.5 hrs) Great looking game with very good voice acting. You play as a eccentric scientist and a young artist you meet along the way. Set mostly in a small Italian town over various different time periods. You invent a new device that liquifies light and that leads to a meteor destroying the world in 2040. I found the story to be a bit light more a vehicle for the LARGE amount of inventory puzzles. Most of them fit in the story and are logical within the absurd world they inhabit. Some of them are a bit off the wall, but your journal keeps track of what you need to do and illustrations that have some hints. There are a few that are moon logically weird (use stretchy hand on washing to get firecrackers) For the first couple of chapters you switch between characters , but once you access the motorbike and the colours the game opens up and becomes a lot more interesting. Now you can switch characters and pass items between them, also you can use the bike to switch to a whole bunch of timezones. Very DOTT where you can change the past to alter the future periods. It opens up a lot more possibilities for puzzles. Overall I really enjoyed it, but at…

Overall, I really enjoyed the game and would recommend it. There’s a lot to love here: great animation, clever writing, likable characters, and plenty of charm. That’s also why some of its puzzle design frustrated me as much as it did. I enjoy solving puzzles on my own without relying on walkthroughs, but the game often makes it difficult to understand not *what* the solution is, but exactly *how* it wants you to perform it. There were many times when I had the right idea, was interacting with the correct character or object, and understood what needed to happen, but because I wasn’t doing it in the very specific way the game expected, my attempt was treated as completely wrong. I think the game could do a better job of acknowledging when the player is on the right track or giving a small nudge toward the intended interaction. The in-game hint system is a welcome addition, but in many cases it only tells you something you already know. Most of the time I got stuck, it wasn’t because I didn’t understand the puzzle; it was because I didn’t know the exact sequence of actions the game wanted from me. This became especially frustrating because I was determined to solve everything mys…

Good fun, humour isn't overbearing, story with twists and a good length. Reminds this Elder Nerd of LucasArts games.

What a great game! Full of character and humour, with beautiful and cool areas to explore. So much more to the game than I was expecting going in. It's left me wanting that same fun and lighthearted experience again - suggestions welcome! On a slightly negative note, I definitely found myself stuck a few times as sometimes it can be difficult to work out how to progress, but the hint system is pretty useful so I was never fully stuck. You might find yourself retracing your steps a bit though!

A great fun game point and click with loads of interesting characters. Thoroughly enjoyable!

There are some things I really liked about the game: the story is good and unusual, the voice acting is great and the game has a great classic-adventure game-vibe. But there also a big downside: most of the puzzles don't follow any logic at all, I don't know around how many corners the devs want us to think. Wouldn't have gotten far in the game without using a walkthrough... So all in all, it's not a bad game, get it when it's on sale. 7/10 in my opinion.