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What the ♥♥♥♥ is a district.

Also if you've gotten used to playing Civ V have fun with constantly looking for the buttons.

Before picking it up, you first need to remember one thing: This game is old; like, over 20-years-old old.

Therefore if you want to enjoy it you need to go in with the expectations of a low-budget small-team computer game from that era, not with the expectations of someone who's used to games today. Hell, one of the only reviews here compares its graphics to Half Life 2, a game so ahead of the curve that the games industry couldn't move past how great it was for another 10 years.
Also you can't change the resolution but who really cares. God forbid you have to play this 20 year old game in 4:3 instead of glorious 4K resolution. How terrible.

Its age also means it's from a time where mini-games ruled the land, and you were expected to play with a hint/strategy guide in your other hand (something you can get if you google it); if you don't, you might miss something and get stuck for quite a while.
It's also true that the controls are janky as hell, but it really doesn't take away from the experience too much. What does take away from it however are the bugs, of which there are quite a few. If one mandatory NPC fails to spawn at the start of a chapter, you can't proceed and will have to load an earlier save, that kind of thing. Lots of doors which you get trapped on the wrong side of as well.
If anything spoils the game, this is certainly what does it.

As for the dialogue, its a little lowbrow but not all that bad. Heavy use of sarcasm and pretty much constant 4th wall breaking, as well as lots of referential humour, and, overwhelmingly, innuendo - it was originally intended for a U rating after all. Some of the references are pretty dated too (it was 20 years ago), but if you're old enough to have been alive when it was released, you'll probably get most of them anyway.

Most important to know in advance though is that Simon is an unlikable protagonist. It's the whole point of the series, and the the game makes it very clear at every opportunity it gets.
He's a teenage prick that got sucked in from another world and doesn't want to be there, so he goes around being an utter bastard to everyone he meets. He steals, (indirectly) kills, and is just generally unpleasant, such to the point that solving some of the puzzles will actually rely on you thinking how you could best screw over some of the NPCs.
You're really not meant to take his side in anything. He's a ♥♥♥♥.

That has been the point of the series since its inception, so disliking the game because 'character mean' is about the same as saying you don't get what the game is about. Granted there are some bad jokes, and certainly things that didn't age well, but in most cases whatever is said is so utterly f***ing stupid that it's clearly poking fun at people who actually think like that.


IN SUMMARY:
The honest truth is that it's not perfect. It's old and it shows it, but on the whole it's relatively funny and a good game to throw away some time on. Its puzzles are satisfying to work out and tend to make sense in the end even if you do sometimes need a little help, so it passes as a decent game in that respect.

The biggest negative is in the bugs. As I said, permanent soft-locks mean that a single missing NPC can ruin your play through if you don't save often enough, and if you want to experience the game without risk you may be better off just watching one of the long-plays online. I would still recommend giving it a look if you're bored though, even if it's just online.

Good for starting petty squabbles among friends, a wide variety of passive aggression makes for very immersive married life experience.
"Where do I put pig skins?"
"Pig skin goes in the pig skin chest."
"Yeah, but where is that?"
"How do you not know where it is!? We've been in this base for 1274 days!"
"OH, I'm SO sorry I've been too busy chopping wood for us to learn exactly which of our 800 chests each item goes in! You know what? I'll just drop it here for you to deal with it, I haven't eaten all day and I'm starving."

In all honesty though it's a great game, absolutely worth getting.

The game is essentially a casual puzzle game with a fun concept, whereby you cut boxes to get a ball to the finishing line. It has a fun cartoony visual style, the concept's well executed, and its clearly a project the developer has put a fair amount of time into.

Also, I have to give major props to the developer, since my previous review of this game, calling it unplayable due to a visual bug, was up for only a few minutes before they contacted me and hotfixed the specific issue I had been having. Very well done.

Perfection at bare minimum. All I can say.

If you make FNAF videos, please find a bridge and jump off it.
Other than that it's gold, give it a try.

I immediately regret this decision.

Finally got to lock up Jean Valjean and kill him during a riot, 10/10 would recommend to literally everyone.