Fireflies (2018)

Fireflies Positives: + Some sort of mystery + The house is well made + Its free + Its short + Looked promising in the beginning... Negatives: - ... but wtf happend? - The devil is so annoying and so unnecessary - One puzzle was really frustrating - No explaination - Bad graphics in the last 2 levels - Shooting feels off, and is so unnecessary - Makes little sense - More frustrating than fun to play the last parts I dont understand why the devil was needed in this game. Its so annoying and destroys the joy of playing. And there is little to no explaination and one puzzle was just frustrating. Just go and play something else instead of this. Total Score: 3/10 Ps If you also struggled to make sense of the combination of pattern in the room to the left in the second level, the answer is this: middle, left, right, middle, right (shoot the patterns on the floor in this order) And in the first level, the hidden room is in the kitchen behind a wall which look disorted.

Fireflies is a first person adventure game slapped together with the Unreal engine. The quality is very much asset flip tier. The developer was unable to fit the game properly to PC, so there's no support for resolutions much over decades old 1080p. As a result, everything looks blurry and fuzzy. The game is put together pretty badly, one of the first things you see once you escape your bedroom is the lovely sight of fireflies while birds fly backwards overhead. I'm not 100% sure but I think knowing which direction birds fly in (forwards, not backwards) should be a pre-requisite for game design, although it's often taken for granted when it shouldn't be. It's generally unintuitive. While some things are done reasonably okay here, the developer had a few ideas for a game that seem to have been thrown in a blender, the technical delivery is a let down, and not even Unreal Engine could save it. It's great that this is free, but the quality of implementation here is too low for me to recommend, even for free. Hopefully the developer will go on to do bigger and better things.

Игра "Fireflies" — это эмоционально насыщенный визуальный новелл с элементами головоломок. Атмосфера таинственности и мистики цепляет с первых минут: яркие визуальные эффекты, плавные анимации и мелодичный саундтрек создают погружение в мир призраков и воспоминаний. Сюжет о поиске пропавших людей через разгадывание загадок оставляет глубокое впечатление, хотя линейность и отсутствие выбора могут разочаровать. Геймплей прост, но требует внимательности. Минус — короткая продолжительность. Рекомендую тем, кто ценит атмосферные истории и не требует сложной механики.

Not that great. It had some promise, but the fact you gotta figure out puzzles while the "devil" is on your butt is annoying.

[h1]Before I played Fireflies, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41qC3w3UUkU