A Slit of Joy

Honestly I can't recommend this, but I'm an optimistic weirdo who can somehow find beauty in anything, so consider yourself warned. To make this short: the writing is cringe and overly explicit for the lack of depth it actually contains, while the gameplay is almost impressively clunky and needlessly tedious. I'm baffled at how specific the interactive points tend to be; I could stand right in front of the item, literally try to approach it from different directions too, but unless you're on the ONE EXACT required pixel (which often is from an awkward unintuitive angle too), nothing happens, thus it's easy to get stuck. Also the way the game would sometimes force the player to inspect the entire map twice for poorly designed clues felt like its only purpose is to drag out the gameplay instead of putting effort into adding more areas. Back on the story, it has potential and touches interesting themes, but the writing ultimately scratches the surface instead of digging more towards their core. In my opinion the game should've utilized the environments and gameplay as part of the storytelling and representation of introspective, instead of relying on short cutscenes. Plus the script …

The game is great, so much so that I'm stuck on the very first puzzle :) I love these games! I hope to pass it soon. Great respect to the author for the work done!

I want to preface this review by saying that I'm not a negative person, nor do I usually find games "bad", usually I find them mediocre at best. I also want to say that I hold nothing against the dev for my criticism of this game, no matter how harsh it sounds, I can tell that an effort was made, and as a (likely) first project, I think the product does well. However, I cannot say that I enjoyed my time with this game either. The game was a confusing and buggy mess, with a strange story that barely gets me connected to any of the characters, and feels more like an unnecessary amount of angsy, edge, and "sadboi" tropes thrown at the protagonist, who's life is apparently a living hell but he was in denial for so long. There's also the problems around Aoi who (spoilers ahead) [spoiler] the game seems to try to paint as the "true antagonist", in both some ending dialouge, and the secret ending, (which may I add the game makes 0 attempt to tell you that the info is in the files), so her and Finn''s relationship is just confusing [/spoiler]. I have to mention that the problem isn't that the game is dark and depressing, in fact, most of my favorite RPG Maker games (OMORI, OFF, End Rol…

it is a interesting game but still fun and i dont regret buying the game

It isn't bad but it could've been a lot better. It isn't scary at all but the graphics are good 4,5/10

A really fun game, there are some annoying spots where its kinda confusing on how to progress because of the hitboxes of items you're supost to interact with being kinda wonky, but overall really depressing and enjoyable expierience