Finding Paradise Review (Fauxnel)
𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕪𝕠𝕦'𝕧𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕕 𝕒 𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕩 𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕤𝕦𝕖 𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕡 𝕒𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖!
"Finding Paradise" is a direct sequel to "A bird story" that follows another episode from Sigmund Corp; the company that works in the field of granting people's last dying wish! Although the game is quite emotional at times, the same inconveniences that plagued the other Freebird games are still present here.
You control Dr Eva Rosalind and Dr Neil Watts, the same two "clowns with deep understanding of human emotion" from the game "To the Moon" who, again, are assigned another case of an old dying man with a wish that could be granted. Upon arrival at the scene, Rosalind and Watts immediatly sense that this is not a regular case and they'll try their best to grant Colin Reed's dying wish; who is the same little boy you played as in "A bird's story", the same lonely kid with tons of regrets. In "Finding Paradise", Colin Reed seems to have made a life and a career for himself, and you'll see it all unfold in glorious pixel-art graphics.
Let me warn you though, that the game will have you choking of depression throughout; I literally cried the first few minutes of the game when Colin is talking about how his life was great but unfulfilling, that although he loved his family, he's had many things he regretted not doing... Such as spending adequate time with his son, who's had a career and kind of ghosted his parents for the entirety of his adulthood... These little things in the game will have a deep effect on your emotions because they are as ordinary as they are real things most people will go through in their lives not paying too much attention to! I guess you'll have to play the game to find out how deeply-rooted in our lives these things the game details are... Hence why you'd require lots of tissues to get through Colin Reed's life and give him a proper farewell.
The things I've stated before that you should be aware of before getting the game are: The fact that the game's resolution is capped at 640x480, you can only change it to look like a small tab in your huge monitor. The Steam Overlay also does NOT work with the game, and you'd have to perform unnecessary maneuvers to get the game to properly function. Is the story so good that it's worth looking over all of these defects? Yes, it most certainly is. Despite all that's bad with the game, in my opinion this is one game that deserves a sort of prize, an Oscars or something... It's a 10/10 emotional journey through an old man's memories; it will have the toughest of players beside themselves with grief, if not straight out crying their eyes out. Play it only when you're in a good place mentally, or it might make your depression much worse before it makes it better.