Lost Words: Beyond the Page Review (Fizzboks)
Who is this game for? It seems far too simple and cliche for adults. Oh here we go, 5 stages of grief! Generic gran-kid story, love, anger, kindness, hope, I felt sad, a bit wishy-washy all around.
And I don't think this is on the most part a game for kids either. Personally this reminds me of the worst of the kids shows on TV. The ones that condescend to you and bring you tired tropish heavyhanded metaphor stories and imprecise conceptual messaging. It's boring. And kind of very insulting. If I showed this game to my little sister I think she would just find it annoying too, she'd think I was just babying her. It's like where people talk in a deceiving high tone with that sinister ever-too-close grin, with the most delirious, self-absorbed language, as though we don't live in the same complex reality as they do and have some (albeit limited) sense of this.
These kinds of stories do not help (with some sheltered exceptions).
Maybe it would have been better if there was more effort in the characterization of the main character. If they were made to seem like an actual person, not just a stereotype.
I very much dislike this game, it feels disingenuous. They didn't go for it, and instead we have this. Games are more than this.