I should've put this review in the April one but I totally forgot about it. >~< We're still playing it tho so I suppose it can still fit in May's report?

This game is brilliant in how it presents itself. It would've been a let down and boring if it's not a co-op game, but since it is, it's a hell of a fun time. Now let me explain.

This game is a split screen online/local multiplayer game that you and your friend control each of the character to try and get out of prison. However it doesn't end there(which is quite good). After you got out of prison, you two are heading on a journey together to get revenge from a bad guy you both hated. In the process you'll get to meet your family and the two bonded to have a close friendship. Simple story right? Sounds boring? No it ain't cuz this game gives you so much crap to play with. Now, I don't mean crap in a bad way. At its core, this game is built on top of countless mini-games and shits you two friends(or yourself) can fondle around with. "Hiya!!! This exercising is hard. " "Ha I beat your high score! " "Come on let's play~" is all things that you'll say during a playthrough. You can both see each other's perspective and dialogues with different people, and it's interesting how the 2 characters' personality differs and have different reaction with things. The most fun thing about the game is definitely when you two are screwing around(or screwing with each other), either with mini-game or just random stuff.

I just had such a fun time playing it with my bff, and we even decided to play a second time since we wanted to see all Leo's choice side(we went with all Vincent's choices the first time around). Quite a good game I must say.

This game doesn't even have a HLTB page which is kinda funny. lol It's a side scroller zombie shooter game. This is not a bad game. However, I have a really big gripe with it. It's the freaking invincible frames for zombies. You would think that in a realism setting where if you die you will have to restart the game this mechanic wouldn't exist right? But nooooooo.

Let me explain this. The zombies appear from the ground. They "dig out" of the ground, to be precise. However, during the animation when it is appearing, you can't shoot it and your bullet will pass through it. Only once they fully appear can they be hurt. However, they can attack immediately after they appear. So, this creates the so called "dead zone" when playing, meaning that if there's a zombie that has almost appeared, you can't stand on it. When it's at low spawning rate, there's no problem. But towards the end stages when the spawn rates are really high, it becomes kinda annoying. Now, you can learn and adapt(if you don't you will get frustrated from dying a lot) which I did, but it's the feeling of being robbed off of your lifes that gets me. Zombies shouldn't have invincible frame, especially not when you make it so that you have to restart the entire game over again. I feel cheated and it's unfair.

I did have a little bit of fun, but the annoying feeling is too strong to get over.

Where do I even begin. This game man, it breaks me, in a good way. That sounds weird huh? Let me explain. A little warning tho: This review will contain spoilers for both To the Moon and Finding Paradise(tho I will try to avoid To the Moon's spoiler but it is needed for me to compare the two), so if you want to play those games or is consider playing them, go play them first. They are both brilliant games and I would recommend anyone to play them.

Now, this is the first ever Freebird Games' game that I haven't see a playthrough of. To the Moon and A Bird Story both I have seen playthrough of them before playing, and I must say even tho I know everything about the games, they are still super awesome. In my steam review for To the Moon I've elaborate on this point. When you know everything, it's a total different feeling playing it. Everything stings you cuz you know the truth. What about Finding Paradise? It's a whole new experience for me. Immediately the differences are that I giggled and laughed so much while playing the game, and I'm much more invested in the story. Neil is still as silly as ever. Eva keeping the whole business rolling, yet sometimes rolls with what Neil suggested and have some fun. And god damn I must say this one is spoopy! I had so many goosebumps and chills while playing it! From the start of the first ever memento where a black figure quickly ran across the screen. I thought this has turned into a horror game or something. xD The background ambient noise got me hard! Really a good atmosphere builder. Also at the end Laura Shigihara is just god damn cheating with the song. ;-; Every time.

To be frank, To the Moon's story is much better than Finding Paradise. It's very tragic, yet beautiful at the same time. The kind that'll get me teared up countless times even after knowing every nooks and cranny of the story. Why did I bring up this point? Because if it weren't for me playing through Finding Paradise myself and also the fact that I relate to it personally, I wouldn't have the same kind of emotional level and tearing up as much as To the Moon. It lies in the fundamental different between the two. Finding Paradise's story is in a way, a happy one? His life is pretty good as a whole. No real big tragic and such. The sad part comes in the fact that Faye and Colin separated, Colin has been unhappy since(or it's him being unhappy caused Faye to disappear) and Faye has always wanted to be there for him, to protect him. She has said that at the end of it all she'll be there and Colin can tell her how it all is, which is why she's been fighting Neil and Eva. It has the same setting/feeling as To the Moon, where River's strange behavior is the result of a promise, which Faye and River both persisted in fulfilling. That's why To the Moon is more tragic, because River didn't have the chance to get to see it all herself. For her, Johnny never remembered a thing. (I feel so bad for River omg. QAQ)

I'll take a brief pause to talk about the actual gameplay now. It has definitely improved from To the Moon, although the basic controls are all the same. The game feels more sharp, yet has this old game vibe that they both have. And I really like the new memento mini-game! Doesn't have the moves counter so I don't feel like shit for being bad, and these kind of trial and error puzzle games are ones that I actually like. Also the two fights between Neil and Faye are quite fun. x3 However, I did have a slight issue which seems a lot of people also have. The game lagged a lot when I first started it. I googled it and found out that I'll have to play in alternate version in order to play smoothly, but I'll have to replay the ending part for the achievement. I did that and everything went smoothly. I'm glad I did because it wouldn't have been ok to play in that of a laggy state. Props to the devs for responding in the thread.

The last part I'm going to talk a bit about the ending and such. It hits me hard. The whole thing hits me hard because I'm also a person with very active imagination. In fact, my imaginations have accompanied me and also hurt me in my life. It is indeed a place where I could sink my whole self into, thinking only what happens in there. When I pull out of it, I despise myself for doing it. Yet at times, I wish my imaginations were real. I wish someone is there for me, to make me not lonely anymore. I even wished I have split personalities, so I won't be alone, even if it's a bad personality. Who knows? What if I'll get a good personality and it'll be a buddy of mine? That was little me's thinking. But alas, I'm not as talented(?) as Colin. It's just me, and my thoughts, bothering myself. How I envy Colin when the ending came. He has someone that cares so dearly about him, who would protect him at any cause and who encouraged him throughout his childhood. How I wish I was him. It just breaks me. Now typing this I'm not sure if it's in a good way anymore. Cuz I cried as I'm typing, yet it isn't the same relieve feeling that I felt at the end of the game. It's a deep envy, even a bit of jealousy, and emptiness. I'll just......leave it at there.

This is a really cute game. The concept is simple: You travel through time(a year difference) to solve the problem of a family. It's as simple as that. I love the art style of it, it's distinguishable, it's vibrant, it's adorable. The animation is also quite good. I especially love the head bobbing and body movement that characters do. Also the music is surprising good! It's appropriate for every character and it's good to listen to, although the main music did get a bit repetitive after a while. It's also pretty fun to try and figure things out by yourself since the concept and what you should do is very straight forward.

Now I do have some complaints. The biggest one is the back tracking. (well, not necessarily back tracking per say but) It's just super annoying that every time I want to time travel I gotta go up these stairs and floors to reach the top and then climb down again. It's unnecessary busy work and should be able to be cut out in some way. Even just a side room where you can directly go up multiple stairs without having to run through the halls could help. The other thing is the rooms are connected in a circular way. In concept it might save time if you have remembered every room, but I ended up just being very lost so that didn't help. A smaller problem is the platformer thingy that happens from time to time with the kids. It's a really neat idea and kinda cute, but I struggled hard with the beach one, always dying on the second child. And since there's no checkpoints? I gotta run it all over again. Plus on the part where you have to jump up to hit the block to go up, it's safer to hit the slimes with it too so I'll have to wait for it to pass the block, which is extra downtime in the game.

That said, I actually quite like the game. Controls are super simplistic(although I would've loved if there's a controller support since having to use arrow on my apple keyboard kinda strains my hand since I have a bit of wrist problem), visuals are good, everything else is quite ok.

This game is basically the mobile game "Flow Free" that I have on my phone. You connect dots and fill up the entire board. What I like the most about this certain puzzle type is that it's straight-forward, it also involves trail and error instead of you having to think very hard to solve it. I like that cuz I'm the kind of person who likes to learn with doing. It's also a good game to take my mind off of something. When I'm playing it I don't need to think too much, just connect dots and clear levels. So my brain can rest and be empty.

This is the part that this games lacks in a lot of levels. The levels designed are very indirect when it comes to how you connect the dots. Often you have to make these weird turns to fill in certain blanks in order to solve it. I really don't like that. And also having to hold down left mouse button to drag the lines is kinda bad and strains my right wrist a lot(which I already have some problems with). It also lets go of the dragging randomly, causing me to have to click and drag several times for a single line. Perhaps this puzzle type is better on mobile, but a click to select which dot you want to drag and click again to put it down system could also work, which I just thought of on the top of my head so no reason they didn't think of it unless they just didn't bother.

On to the good part. Compared to "Flow Free" this game satisfied the "try to fill remaining blanks with a line" side of this type of puzzle. Flow Free's puzzle used to be like that, which is the best part about the game but for whatever reason they stopped doing that and I'm quite sad about it. Also for the unlimited version after finishing level 99, I actually like it since it's procedurally generated so it's much more straight forward, however it has the problem of having too many side by side dots which is just not fun.

Giving VN another try with this game since it's got quite nice ratings. Must say that perhaps VNs really aren't my thing cuz it was quite boring for me. That said I did enjoy the game tho.

Aviary Attorney is a visual novel game where you're a private defense attorney and you'll get various cases to work on. The process of each case usually is this: get case -> investigate -> defend on court. Quite straight forward, however for most of the places you can only go to one per day, and you only have a fixed time until trail so it's kinda annoying for me. It's mainly my problem tho, because I do see why the system is in place, but the limitation of days makes it so I'm really anxious about choosing anything. I would like to choose freely on my own, but I'm afraid I'll choose wrong and don't get the things/information I need. It's especially annoying for the third case, since you need 3 days for the private investigator to get the information, thus I had to redo the entire case because I was going down the list of places and only went to the it the last day, so not enough time. That made me have to look up guides for the rest of the game, worried I'll have to redo them again which I don't want cuz it's a bit boring for me. However the final trail determines which ending you'll get. I basically got that ending cuz of the guide, not me freely exploring and getting it which kinda defeats the purpose of VNs right? And yes I do know that I could just forget about it and do them, but I want to fully experience everything. And only after finishing the game and reading on the spoiler guides do I see that there's no "failure state" in this game. It's alright if you lose the trail, but I was too worried about losing.

The characters and stories in this game are quite well done tho. It's got this sorta dry humor that's quite nice, and had me chuckling a few times. Characters are quite distinct, tho some are a bit alongside the typical trope. However for some reason I really didn't develop any emotion attachment to anyone. My feelings towards characters are of "this guy is cool" and "this person is annoying. I don't like him". Not a single one got me rooting for them, which is sorta a failure on the game's part. The only person that I kinda like is the bar lady, which is super cute and motherly figure. Her lines are super nice. x3 One of the reason this happens could be their annoyingly long and unmemorable names. I can barely remember the main character's right now, after only one day of finishing the game. That's insane! Only recalled it after thinking of Sparrowson yelling at Falcon, with the former being the only name I could remember, and that's cuz the judge doesn't remember his name and reminds me of it a couple of time. Each character is only a portrait in my mind, and that's not really that good.

Maybe I'm just not used to VN's mechanics and the way you should play it, but I really don't find it that appealing.