To the Moon Review (Kat_And_Kash)
When I completed To The Moon, one of the first things that I noticed was simply how underwhelmed a lot of people seemed to have felt with it. If such be from the puzzles being bad, or the story simply not being enough to touch them; and to those I can two things. First it is true that the story wont touch everyone, as while I thought is was a fantastically moving piece, I can understand some situations, or real life events/feelings that could lead an individual in a direction that this story will simple not touch. Things of which I believe are 100% okay, not everything is made for everyone and that is okay. The second point I have however is in the puzzles. To which I need to say that those are not the point. To The Moon does not need to have fantastic puzzles. If I am being fair I was surprised when the "puzzles" that are in the game came up, because I really did not expect anything like them at all. Something I can say because I believe that To The Moon should not be understood as a typical game perhaps, but a interactive book. A sentiment I can hold simply from one of the first thoughts I had when playing the opening section to the game. A moment wherein I stopped and thought "Wow, this game is almost like a visualisation of what it feels like to read a book, and imagine what I am reading in my head." because it truly does, and I am not sure if this is perhaps just my own personal experience, but the design, colours, music, everything, perfectly recreated a no-imaginary feeling of thinking about what I books words would look like. With the only difference being that fact that I could control and characters in the book, and could use them as a outlet for my emotions regarding the path set out for me. A feeling even stronger then that of which I have had with any other interactive media ever. Regardless however, I do understand that not everyone will feel that same regarding this game as I did, which is fine. But as for my personal take, I think To The Moon is brilliant, and one of now two pieces of media in my life that have truly made my cry. I felt sew attached to its story, and hope that people who are hesitant just give it a try. For the soul reason that they may find one of their favourite games as well.