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Yeah cream usually Rises to the top even if it’s in a cult status form. Not every great game becomes a huge all-time million dollar success but they get remembered for being great. Like Beyond Good and Evil or the first pyschonauts or even obra dinn which is huge in the adventure game scene and it has its fans elsewhere too, but it’s never been a huge commercial success. I actually think this game is going to Fair mostly middling, Where it gets Praises for its art Direction but, the gameplay is so severely lacking and the story isn’t mainstream like a Walking Dead that it turns a lot of Gamers off. so it might be remembered, but it probably will never be elevated to even a cult classic.

It was funny to see how this threat started almost 7 years ago and they said how it looked like it wasn’t going to meet the goals on kickstarted and look at it now 7 years later! This definitely looks interesting as a fan of stop motion with a Wes Anderson feel. The only thing that bothers me is the lack of puzzless or more involved gameplay. I do enjoy narrative games with minimal gameplay here and there, but for some reason given the setting and look I wish in this case they had done something more in terms of gameplay. But I’ll definitely check it out later.

It’s a gorgeous game made with clear love and care but I’m not finding it compelling in the slightest. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s a German studio and there’s translation issues but the writing is so barebones that it goes in one ear and out the other. Characters are bland with no personality and that’s all the game is, running errands for people. There’s nothing engaging to latch onto other than admiring the art and there’s only so many times you can run back and forth through the same lovely screens doing nothing before you just disconnect from the experience.

I wish I liked it!