8.1 hours played
Written 27 days ago
An absolutely phenomenal game from start to finish. The game is very cute, charming, and looks absolutely beautiful. The controls are great, responsive, everything you'd want it to be. By far, though, it's the game's writing and dialogue is the highlight that genuinely made me tear up by the end. It really gives you that sense of childlike energy, adventure, attitude, sense of wonder and adventure. Something that myself and many people lose when they grow up. And I love the idea of, you know, Gator just creates his own story.The writing is everything you would want. It's really funny, it's really quirky, it has a lot of silly moments, and especially with Big sister of growing up and going to college and contemplating that with, As a little gator does so much to have her play, just like old times, and especially what was very impactful was, as you adventure across the island, you see memories pop up everywhere about all about the fun games in the past. But it was also very mature as you interact with a lot of other characters. You see problem-solving. You see conflicts get solved by just convincing people that talking to each other is the way to solve problems, or playing along with everyone and doing favors for them. And it's just beautiful to see. You solve a lot of people's problems. You give people confidence. And it was just really wholesome and just really nice to see. It was genuinely enjoyable to play and also, you have a lot of decisions where you can lie to people or not, and when you don't lie to people, you get rewarded in-game. And in the end, everybody comes together to change the playground into a fortress, and everyone is playing the game in their own unique way. Every character has a different idea of what their role in the game is, but everyone is having fun and playing the game together. And it was just so beautiful, so poetic, And it genuinely made an impact on me that sometimes, as an adult, I need to slow down and enjoy life more, just like what we did in our childhood. The power of playing pretend and having fun with what you have is so profound and that really spoke to me. This game is a 10 out of 10 for what it set out to do, and it was absolutely beautiful. I cannot wait for the DLC. I cannot recommend this game enough.