👍Positive:

Fantastic story. Great environmental and atmosphere building.

👎Negative:

The clown foot sound achievement is annoying and grindy.

This is a pagywosg game. It's a point and click game! And surprising I have a lot more patience for this one than all the others. In my main playthrough I wasn't really bothered about the walking speed. Only really noticed it when going for leftover achievements.

I think part of the reason is the game builds atmosphere really well, and has a variety of environments that each has their unique looks and background music. I feel like I was constantly going to brand new places when exploring for the first time, and boy did I spend a lot of time exploring the map ignoring the main quest. lol It's nice that the game allows you to get to most places. It made me grasp the world better and kept me entertained. The world is also super bleak and terrible, and that actually made me sympathize with the people in there and made helping them later much more rewarding. Helping each of them and giving them a hug afterwards always made me smile.

On the topic of helping, let's talk about the story. It's great, it's amazing, I love it. I never thought a point and click game of all things can make me bawl my eyes out for two times! Dropsy is really lovable in the way he moves and when he gets happy he jumps around, but he also made me question if it's in real world would he still be likable? In the game it's all pixelated and cutified, but the glimpse of "real" Dropsy in the mirror really jumped me. I'm not sure I would really go near him in real life, which makes me feel super bad. But alas, it's a game. When I play games, I often form a close bond with the main character. I see it more like caring for them like a mother or elder, and it makes emotional scenes much more impactful. Helping Dropsy makes friends and hug everyone really just warms my heart seeing him grow. Spoiler alert: And it made the ending all that more heart-wrenching. When I saw Doggo, Birdie and Rat get monsterfied I was furious, super sad and worried about Dropsy, but then I saw them getting along fine and its just so nice, but also at the back of my head I was still not happy about the 3 of them being like that, but then I question myself if I was judging them and at the same time also judging Dropsy based on looks. But then that fucking CEO pulled out a gun and shot something, someone? Anyways, there's too much chaos that I didn't really understand what happened. When I saw the news on the TV I just couldn't take it and started crying. I tried so hard to help Dropsy and now everyone think he's a criminal. I just feel so bad for him. Thankfully we helped a lot of people so when I saw that people were telling Dropsy where the CEO went and helping I felt much better. But when we got through the portal and the only way to progress is to hug the CEO and he shot Dropsy, I cried the second time cuz fucking hell Dropsy doesn't deserve this! Thankfully his mom saved him, his dad and pet friends. But then I couldn't help but wonder if it's true and it isn't just the afterlife of Dropsy. I'm really hoping it is since CEO seemed to see the bright light and reacts. Anyways, I freaking love the story. I love me games that can make me emotional.

👍Positive:

Interesting HOG scenes. More leaning towards puzzles.

🤷Neutral:

Quite a bit of backtracking.

This is a pagywosg game. A HOG that hardly felt like one. It's really interesting actually. :3

When I said that this hardly felt like a HOG game, I mean that this game is more like a point and click puzzle game with slight HOG elements. Even some of the HOG elements doesn't feel like traditional HOG cuz you're finding objects with their shape instead of names. Puzzles in this game are mostly alright, with some of them being a bit annoying but managable. It has quite a lot of backtracking but it's got a map teleportation with areas highlighted with interaction so it's pretty alright. Overall I enjoyed the game. :3

👍Positive:

Really good looking visuals.

👎Negative:

Voice acting and animation being clunky at times. Story doesn't make much sense and disappoints me. Characters unlikable. Slow walking speed.

This is a Challenge Me and pagywosg game. I must say I'm fairly disappointed about this game. I thought it's gonna be a great point and click story game since I've heard some good things about the game, but it just didn't grab me.

First thing first, it's a point and click game. With almost all point and click games I have the problem of having to wait for characters to walk to the destination. It's probably just a me problem, but it's so boring and annoying having to wait, especially since some point and click games have backtracking which makes it wayy more tedious. The puzzles also aren't that straight forward. Though I did use a guide(a bit too late if I may say), but some of the solutions still made me go: "What? That's stupid. ".

The story. I really wanted to like it, and I feel like if they done it right it can really be great, but they didn't. First off, voice acting is a bit iffy at times. On one line it'll be full of sadness and the next it'll just be calm or joyful. It feels unnatural and makes it a bit hard to connect with characters. Coupled that with the sometimes weird animation and you made me unable to fully like and connect with the characters. Next is the plot. There's definitely some pacing issues or writing problems. The first big "reveal" where Noah is actually Sadwick did struck me a bit, but honestly all this way I knew what it means to be in Silence from the prologue so I know someone is having problems. Imo it would work much better as a final reveal than the mirror. And the final reveal is just weak. The effect they used on mirror's voice is just not pleasant to hear, I already know what's coming and there's no surprise. Finally, the characters. They are not fleshed out enough and are hardly likable. Noah is pretty stupid in what he does and as our controlled character he lacks personality. Kyra is just a freaking jerk. I'm very confused with her, like are we supposed to like her? Cuz she just came off as rude, violent and annoying. Reenie is a bit eh. We are suppose to like her no? But she's just an annoying kid that doesn't listen to people and do stupid things. She got through everything only cuz she's lucky and/or she's the queen. Spot is adorable but hard to really......like? Partly due to he's sound effect sounding bad and out of place, but he's alright. The only character that I did like is Sam, cuz he's pretty chill and his interaction with Reenie is pretty nice. But even him has moments of annoyance, mostly after both groups meet up and under the influence of Kyra(like that one scene where he kept whispering with Kyra. That one is the most annoying since it's just freaking disrespectful. )

Overall, I'm not that impressed by the game. It's alright, but could've been better.