Of Bird and Cage

This title falls under the "wish there was a neutral button". I played only via Steam Deck, so feed back here for the review is based on my experience playing it this way. First off, the game is labeled as being a verified deck game. This is more or less true, the prologue worked fine with no settings changes. However, getting the actual game to run required forcing it to Proton 5.13-6 compatibility. Some video did not display properly and navigating back to main menu from ends of chapters hung the game requiring forced shut down. The Music score was stellar and fit the themes of the game well as was certainly intended. The game play for me was less than stellar. QTE events run the show here and are quite confusing in some places or out right impossible to get right as you are on a time elapse to complete objectives and use QTE. There isn't much room for exploring an area because of this and you will often fail to accomplish a lot of things. Although failing to do things doesn't lead to any game over or repeat of the chapter to continue, it left me feeling like I missed a large part of the narrative going on. I'm aware that there are multiple endings which I assume I could reach b…

Good story and awesome music get hampered by horrible QTE's and terrible time limit.

I was interested in this game based on the music alone as a fan of the music genre the artists for the soundtrack do, but that being said, it seems that the music is literally all this has going for it. The graphics are meh at best, the MC's voice acting sounds so flat as if she's uninterested in what she is doing, some of the side actors outshine her in their performance. The timed events are some of the worst I have ever experienced in a timed event game. You barely get enough time to do your "quest", half of the time the quests don't even show up until well into the timer so you're just wandering around aimlessly trying to figure out what to do. When you finally get told what you need to do for the quest, you barely have enough time to even get it done. I have never had this problem before in any choices matter game where I am failing nearly every time event because we're not being told what to do right away. It's like they want us to explore but we're also timed and can't explore everything and just fail. What's the point of there being items we can inspect and an area in a scene we can explore if we're being timed in everything we do? The game also feels a bit lifeless. I'd re…

I played this game yesterday. At first my ears kind of stopped working as the music was driving me crazy because of how good it is but the game became even better when I realized you can during the credits go to petach tikvah. I almost even met Jesse! Recommended. 😄👍

I wrote a new detailed and long review and forgot to save it so long story short: The gameplay is bad, The game design is very bad, The music is amazing and the story is also pretty good. Every time i talk about this game it sounds like i hate it but i really love it. In fact i gave it 9/10 in my old review and i still stand by it because music and stuff. With good gameplay it will probably be my favourite game of all times.

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