Recente recensies door Karrolanth

A very worthwhile pack - all the pictures are a similar style, but there are a good variety of landmarks and they are all a decent size so the pack is even-better-than-usual value for money!

I very much enjoyed this pack - the subject matter interests me anyway, and the variety of styles and colour palettes used made it fun to colour and see the pictures come to life.

I did suggest that the Lady of the Lake picture should be renamed "Watery Tart", but no luck yet... ;)

Takes about 10 minutes for one playthrough - I needed two runs to get the apple achievement.

A short and sweet story about a boy and his tree through the decades, played out in short scenes several years apart. You can somewhat control the shape of your tree depending on where you hold/move the mouse during the growing stages, but that's about it. (My first tree grew a bit taller than the screen would show, which made it harder to get the apples at the top.) You can take photos of your tree at the end, choosing the season, weather and time of day. It's not really a game, as such, but it's free and - in my opinion anyway - worth a few minutes of your time.

I sort of figured how it would end, but it still made me cry and I'd kind of hoped there would be a little more afterwards.

I'm enjoying the fact that this pack only unlocks one image per day, so I can't rush through all the smaller ones at once! The pictures so far are cute and I've had fun colouring them.

I try not to zoom out any further than I need to when starting the day's picture, so that I don't necessarily know what it is until it's finished. (The book doesn't show the title of the picture when it first unlocks, only when you've completed it, but a couple have been easy to guess anyway as they're small.) This meant that I was rather surprised when what I thought was a Christmas bauble appeared to have spectacles or eyes... I realised after a few minutes that it was one of the chubby little birds shown on the store page! ;)

I'm giving this a thumbs up purely because it's a free sample of the full game, so you may as well try it if you think it will appeal to you!

For me personally, the art style is quirky and not too bad, but the voice acting was really irritating. I would have preferred just text instead of the voices! Having choices that affect your gameplay is a nice touch in this type of game, although I'm not sure how well it would actually play out in the full version. It's also a bit in your face with how it points you in a particular direction rather than leaving you to figure out which might be the "good" and "bad" choices, although I suppose if you're going for a particular ending then it makes that easier.

I like point and click games, but I found the voice acting so annoying that it puts me off purchasing the full game. I'm glad I had the chance to try this demo, for that reason!

Beautiful and emotional. Just buy it!

Well worth it at the current sale price, but maybe at full price too depending on your budget. It would have a certain amount of replay value - it may not change much each time, depending on how you guide your flock, but you can at least ride the wave of music and emotions again... if you can bear it! :)

Another game where I wish there was a neutral option for recommendations. My "no" is purely subjective and based on my own personal experience.

It's beautiful, and I had it on my wish list since before it was released. I finally got the chance to purchase it on sale, but I just couldn't play it - the controls are awkward and the camera angles/movement gave me motion sickness. (I also found it difficult to complete even the first part - I read that it's a "no hand-holding" game, but a little more guidance on what to do and how to do it in the beginning would have been nice.)

Clearly many people love it, but for me it was a resounding no and I had to request a refund as there was no way I was going to be able to play it without feeling ill. :(

"Brain twisters and baffling riddles", says the description.

Puzzles without a reset feature if you make a wrong move, obscure hints that don't help you solve them (and ignore things you've already done), puzzle design that has no obvious logic... not my cup of tea.

I played and loved all three of "The Room" games, and thought this would be more of the same. I am very disappointed in this game. I got it for a bargain price in the winter sale, but I'm still requesting a refund. It's certainly not worth full price in my opinion! If you haven't played any of The Room series yet, get those instead.

Based on some of the threads in the Discussion section, there is even worse to come in this game than what I've already seen. It's not fun for me, and life's too short to waste time on this sort of thing!

Recommended with caution.

I like the concept, and the art and music are good. It's certainly an unusual game, and I liked gathering a few stories, sharing them and seeing how they grew and changed.

Unfortunately, the game is soooo very slow! I wasn't expecting quite such a slow pace, and it's not fun for me. I also find it difficult to navigate. I understand that for the kind of game it is, a slower pace is appropriate... this game is all about the journey, not really about "winning". But for me, personally, it was just too awkward and consequently not very enjoyable.

For the right person, who can put up with the glacial pace and the quirky controls and navigation, it's probably an awesome game! If you love stories, you should give this one a try. (I do, and that's why I thought I would enjoy it.)

I wish there was a neutral option, but as there isn't I'm going to give it a cautious recommendation. I think it does what it set out to do, and it does it very stylishly. It's just not right for me, after all.

A very short game - I left it idling for maybe 15 minutes, and also had to look up a hint once or twice when I got a bit stuck, and still completed it in a little under 2 hours.

Despite that, I'd recommend the game - perhaps in a sale, as there's little real substance to it. It's very beautiful, and the music is pleasing. The "construction" of the game is fascinating, and I spent a bit of time in some places just folding and unfolding the scenery to see how it moved. :) I would have liked a bit more to do, rather than just walking (painfully slowly at times) back and forth across the scene in search of the next thing to interact with. A handful of collectables to spot or something like that would have been nice, just to pad it out a bit and make it feel like there was a bit more to it.

It's almost a point & click, but not quite. It's certainly not an "adventure", but I suppose it qualifies as a puzzle. Whatever it is, it was a relatively relaxing couple of hours and I'm glad I played it! I don't know if I would really play through it again, but perhaps one day I might.