Snowfall's Mystery

Man chill with the music, it's just a pixel game. You didn't need to go that hard

Snowfall's Mystery is more book than game... an "interactive novel"/adventure game from Russia (of course). The book component, is, of course, a high school anime club dropout fan-fiction all about the author and his imaginary anime girlfriend. In this garbage novel, the plot is somewhat ripped off from Weird Science, the author creates his imaginary girlfriend with a floppy disk (an old kind of portable digital media). It is, of course, pure garbage. Here's why. Trying to address social issues through the medium of video games is misguided and can be harmful. While it's plausible to suggest the intention was noble, this can do more harm than good. Game developers are not professionals in areas of mental health and social problems, and when they use video games to pretend they are, this can cause far more harm than good. It's my opinion that it's improper to use video games to push political or social agendas. Apart from the harm such hamfisted attempts at addressing social problems can cause, this offers zero benefit to PC gamers. People suffering from health issues or other social problems should seek out professional help rather than going to crap shovelware video gam…

The story was interesting at first but then became quite weird and all around halfway through. Still, a fun experience, but I'm definitely not a fan of its direction. The art style's great, keeping the playable world simple but aesthetically pleasing, while scenes have very good and profound art. Even though I couldn't understand any of the voice-over, the VAs' passion and soul for the act can be heard without a shadow of a doubt. The music's nice as well, although not all of it would be my choice to best fit some scenes. My only issue with the game is the untranslated texts in the background. There aren't many. They barely even provide any amount of useful context. But it's still a quality of life issue that degrades the experience ever so slightly, just like the movement bound only to WASD and not arrows as well.

Cool short game. It also helped me practice my Russian.

Soooo the art is nice but the writting is .............

Good story. But too short.