Smiling Misery

Game kept freezing and wouldn't let me pick the potato option at the start.

Well this one ya should really give a try. Its a short and enjoyable one the narration and sound and yeah its a nice one. I recommend it. :3

If this game wasn't free it would be a thumbs down. CUTE AS HECK art. The VO sound levels are all over the place, so prepare your ears. A story worth exploring, but the gameplay lacks.

'I want to experience misery.' 'Someone who is able to grant me misery, I will serve them for the rest of my life.' This is such a fantastic premise for a story! There are so many iterations of where this could go but I enjoyed the light-hearted exploration in this game too. Very stylized and excellent art direction and music! 8/10

"Smiling Misery" is a poorly made e-book with some side scrolling adventure game elements where you take on the role of a very happy court jester girl who seeks out a way to be unhappy. The poor premise is met by equally poor writing, even worse translation, and next to no meaningful gameplay beyond reading garbage e-book text. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static text/images... it might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design.. "Show, don't tell." So you'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written VN text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with re…

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