Seen Review (Bread Roll)
I found this game from it's animated steam avatar in the point shop. I was curious to see what the game was about so I bought it (for only 0.99 mind you).
The game begins with a pretty atmosphere, and nice music in the background. It almost immediately starts trying to get you to feel bad for the protagonist, and the environment that he finds himself in. This was the first problem for me, as there was absolutely no emotion attached to this character because there was no context for who he was, nor was there any for his history. We didn't know anything, so we had nothing to care about; this persists throughout the whole game. the writing feels poor, and is just trying to pull on heart strings that simply aren't there since the game has no pretext.
This game has lots of puzzles involving platforming, and parkour required for progression. This itself isn't an issue, lots of games have puzzles like this. The issue arises with the weird tile based movement that makes it feel really clunky to move, and navigate around intuitively. It doesn't necessarily ruin the game, it just feels clunky for the style of puzzles that they were implementing.
The thing that could have saved this game was its atmosphere, the pretty piano in the background is very immersive. Unfortunately you couldn't listen to the music due to the constant dinging of steam achievements that was prevalent consistently throughout the entire game.
I did the math, and there are 210 achievements in this game, and I was just trying to finish the game and got 150.
I was on average getting an achievement every 36 seconds,
this doesn't sound that intolerable, but trust me when I say this was completely breaking any sense of immersion that I could have conceivably felt.
Overall I would give this game a 2.9/10. The writing leaves everything to be desired and nothing to be learned. The story very obviously tries to be deep, and philosophical, but falls extremely short at every attempt. There is no immersion, and also weirdly a graphic ending without any type of trigger warning?
there's more to say, but for .99 cents I've already said more then my piece lol.
I for the life of me cannot understand the good reviews on this game.