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Ori and the Blind Forest

Death's Door

A really enjoyable experience with stellar performances from the cast marred by the slow walking pace and opaque instructions on how the game works, although I wouldn't classify this as a "game". I would have given it 4 or maybe even 5 stars but for the sheer frustration I felt by not understanding what I was supposed to do. I knew going in that it was a walking simulator and I was invested in the story and the performances, I just wish the developers could have guided me to that content properly because now I wonder what I might have missed - who knows, the game sure as hell doesn't tell you. Unfortunately there's no way I'm going back in to spend hours walking around at a snails pace to search for it, my time is valuable and this game unfortunately wasted a lot of it when it didn't really have to.

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

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Don't get me wrong, spiritfarer is artistically beautiful and the first couple of hours I spent playing were emotionally engaging and fun but past that it is extremely monotonous. I'm a completionist so I couldn't stop playing even though I spent so, so many hours just bashing rocks and cutting down trees. The main fault I had with the game though is the dialogue. Why is there sooo much dialogue? Some characters will just rabbit on endlessly and hardly say anything at all and that's not to mention the tiny fonts that gave me eye strain throughout, even on a 55"4k TV. I had to walk right up to the TV to read any of the letters or coordinates. The story pacing is awful and performance on the switch is abysmal, the frame rate drops so low during mini games it becomes almost impossible to do them effectively and that's a problem when the game requires you to do them a lot to progress. If this had been a shorter, tighter, better paced game I know I would have loved it and I could have forgiven a lot of its faults but instead it left me worn out and deeply disappointed.

Spiritfarer

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