Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.2: 1313 Barnabas Dead End Drive

This sequel has you exploring the town to resolve the conflict that arose at the end of the previous episode. It's a neat town, but do note that the time of day affects who and what will show up, and that's tied to your PC clock. An NPC tells you this during the day, but if you work during the day, and can only play this at night, you'll never know; bad move. You can also switch between day and night by pressing P; it never tells you this at all. Overall, it just isn't quite as good as the first episode; it's still plenty weird, and I loved that, but it ends with one of those mazes where choosing the wrong direction takes you back to the very beginning, and only some of the screens have clear visual cues as to which way to go. And it takes you back SLOWLY; your patience is wearing thin, but you still have to wait for it to fade out and back in without the ability to move EVERY TIME. Everything is slow, even pressing the button to skip the text crawl; controls are very delayed in most everything that isn't just walking around. That's a problem in the first episode, too, but it really starts to wear away at you here.

Just as Episode One blew my mind, this one did as well.. Again, this is one of the more strange games I've played but just as enjoyable as the first!! Just like the first, it's so quirky, the puzzles are really easy or really NOT.. It's honestly just a bag of everything I have been trying to figure out what to write but it's just one of those games where you really have to explore for yourself.. The controls on some parts were a little flawed and you have to play through a second time (unless you're REALLY careful on the first) but the story was cool enough to warrant the second.. There are a few glitches here and there but honestly, the humour in the game makes it better! Would recommend :)

Positives +good soundtrack +consistent over-the-top atmosphere +decent writing (apart from virtue signaling "racist rights" joke) +cheap +nice sprites Negatives -short (my playtime is not accurate because I AFKd, it's actually around 2-4 hours) -have to play previous free game and buy next episode If you want to understand what's going on -no tutorial or even key remapping/guide (I played with controller and got seriously stuck because one crucial mechanic was not possible to use with it) -clunky controls (character changes direction with delay), only crucial in one fight -weird autosaves (there are only 2 chapters and one of them is rather long and game autosaves after you finished it) For me it was worth, for you? decide for yourself

I love the Baobabs series, but i have to admit that I enjoyed the first episode more. Don't get me wrong, this episode has everything you love from episode one, but it seems like the developers used too many "cherries" (episode one had many amazing "cherries", but episode two just consists of "cherries", which makes it not as outstanding :/). Cons: - there was no introduction in controls, which is usually fine, but I forgot that I could shoot, cuz its kinda long ago that I played the first episode >.< - the map is ♥♥♥♥ ;D (like for real, dude where are the details?)

This game continues to be fun because of how random the story is, I guess. We get to learn more about this weird world that this game inhabits. I liked the art in the game. It's very new and unique. Set pieces are great. I liked the easy 3d sections. I liked the fetch quests in this game because it is tied to the story. It feels like solving a mystery. I liked the music a lot except the main them song with some movie sounds in the song. That one song that is played during the intro can actually be played when playing the game because when you exit houses, the game changes the song. The thing is, is that that one song isn't good to listen to more than once and when it's on loop it sucks. So you're forced to go back into the house and go back outside in hopes that it skips it. I liked that the translation is much better this time around. There's way too much of the game telling the player that they are indeed playing a game and this is a game and stuff like that. It breaks emersion. Also, the pop culture references are just not my thing but what are you gonna do... Going into and out of houses takes a bit too long. There's some kind of delay and it shouldn't happen for a 2d ga…

Great game, the best sound track ever, loved EP1 and am loving EP2.