A Little to the Left Review (VividlyASMR)
This Game Actively Gave my Brain Anxiety
I wanted to like this game. I did. And I tried. I love puzzle games, and this was pitched to me as a ""relaxing"" puzzle/organisational game.
It's not relaxing. It's really, really not relaxing. In fact, it's frustrating. So frustrating in fact that I could feel my brain splitting in half as I desperately tried to figure out what the game wanted me to do on some stages. "Oh, the spoons have to go in the little section with ever so slightly rounded corners? oh NEATO—"
So, perhaps I went into it with the wrong expectations, thus ruining it for myself forever. Maybe it won't be the same for you.
However, I feel like even if I had been told, "hey, this is a puzzle game," I'd still feel a bit irked. The cursor feels janky/rigid no matter how I change the settings (and no other games are giving me this trouble). The cat in this game, somehow, is the first cat in a video game that I feel myself hating. It's not enjoyable seeing hard work get destroyed by its malicious l'il paws.
Things came to a crashing end for me at the Box level. I don't know what happened to me. It was like my brain was actually getting tortured. Neurons were screaming at me that they didn't get it. Click, Grab, Click, Grab, Shuffle, Click, Grab, it can't go there, Click, Grab, Click, Grab, Shuffle—
This game is going to be satisfying for some people. I know it will be. But, there is a small chance, a tiny chance, that maybe your brain is like mine and that this game is serotonin poison that you just paid $22.95AUD to make your brain scream at you.
A Little Less to the Left, please.