No Longer Home Review (jgarthcl)
No Longer Home is a small-scale indie point-and-click game, where you switch roles between two students who will soon be graduating from university and are faced with employment and relocation issues, as well as relationship struggles.
It's also grossly overpriced for the quality and length of the game.
Additionally, it's loaded with insufferable, angst-ridden twaddle masquerading as deep, meaningful dialogue.
Positives: It didn't take too long to complete it....but given how generally slow the game felt and how irritated I became with the navel gazing, head-up-arse dialogue, it felt twice as long. Oh and the graphics are moderately decent to look at in a low-poly way.
Meh: The controls are clunky and the camera doesn't always let you see what you want, resulting in some obscured environments and difficulty getting the right view of clickable objects. The movement of the characters is also glacially slow.....almost as slow as the pace of the game/dialogue.
Negatives: Did you ever find the character of Holden Caulfield a bit of an annoying, whinging prat? Did you think that maybe, just maybe, the play Hamlet should have been shortened by at least an act and two or three soliloquies because of how the character just constantly goes on and on about the futility of his existence and whether he should end it all (over and over and over)? Well, then don't even dream of getting this “game” which is filled to the miserable brim with two characters who do nothing but bemoan their academic existence, and whether they've made the right choices at university, and what they'll do afterwards, and whether they've wasted their time and their parents' time by taking these courses, and on and on and on and on, and NONE of it is interesting or compelling, it's just wank!
Totally not recommended, and at 15 USD for this boring, glacially paced excuse for woe-is-me existential ennui, it is not reasonably priced (I got it in a bundle for about three or four bucks, and at that price, if you are someone with a stronger stomach for characters with no emotional spine whatsoever, then it might, MIGHT be worth it).