5.8 hours played
Written 21 days ago
Very good! I enjoyed it a lot, though honestly i did get stuck a few times, but the overall experience is fun
This is a unique puzzle point and click game about a girl who found a journal/ book that describes her family member's story and life, though you have to figure out the name of the family members and their relationship to each other through the scenes portrayed in the book. Whenever you correctly solved something, the narrator will say some snippets about the family member in question, and you'll also uncover parts of a portrait and a name, that you'll need to complete the family tree. There are a total of 3 chapters in the beginning, and each chapter can expand into another chapter (once you solved the scene/ chapter), so making the game have 6 chapters overall. The ending is not complete yet, as this is the first chapter
Pros:
- Very aesthetic artwork/ graphic, has a semi-cartoony look with a cozy feel, i really like the vibrancy of the characters and the environment! The animations are great, most of the objects in the scene can be interacted with, though not all of them is necessary for solving the puzzle, some are just for entertainment purposes, which speaks volume for the attention to detail!
- Good, creative and engaging puzzles that makes you think, and very satisfying once you've figured it out; most of them are intuitive for me once i get the hang of it, but you have to REALLLLY look closely at your surroundings for answers, and search for things you can interact with (there will either be a hand icon, or a cogwheel icon if an item can be interacted with).
- The story is good, mainly about life and the struggles/ happiness that they faced, though you don't really get a clear picture of what the situation is most times; at the end there is a short bio of each of the family members which provide a little more explanation, though while you're playing the game maybe you wan't get a very clear idea of their story, because the narrator will just say some details of the member but not really go into specifics, and the order of what the narrator says also depends on which puzzles you solved first in the scene.
- Worth the price (i got it on HUGEEE discount) with the amount of gameplay it offers and the artwork
- Nice musics, and the narrator is voiced
Cons:
- You have to pixel hunt most of the time in the game, as the game gives you no direct clues/ answers to what you need to do next, and there is no highlights for the items that you can interact with, and sometimes the window of the interactable item is pretty small that you won't notice it well, ANDDDD sometimes it gets overlaid with the existing character [spoiler]like the plants in the garden, the plants behind Isa are hard to get even after moving her aside[/spoiler]
- The family tree branching is kinda weird for me, like when i already know the relationship, i don't know how to put the portraits in the tree properly, since the branching is like "huhhhh?". Though maybe that's just me not knowing how family tree branches work?
- A few bugs, like the one i encountered is that some of the items remain frozen after i clicked it, luckily it got working again after going to the game menu.
- Some of what the narrator says doesn't tally with what was being written. i'm playing in English mode.
- No hint system provided, you need a walkthrough if you get stuck (thank you walkthrough writers!)
All in all i enjoyed playing the game, currently the game has 2 chapters, i bought them in a bundle so not sure if there's a chapter 3 or more happening, but this chapter is great for me, 8/10