Ella Roo

Unplayable, broken and crap. This is a bad game, and it's not even finished, they shipped a unfinished game and it's a crime it's on the playstation store. The game is literally unplayable on ps5. DO NOT BUY THIS! The writing on this game is awful, it's truly truly awful. The cooking system is the product of a deranged mind that has no idea how to create gameplay mechanics and had no business in video game design. From what I can tell the lead writer of this game is just some rich person who made a big donation on the Kickstarter and bought themself a place on the dev team, and it SHOWS! the writing is abysmal DO NOT TRUST POSITIVE REVIEWS, THEY ARE WRITTEN BY DEVS AND SHILLS. It's supposed to be set in Japan, where are the Japanese people??? I saw a YouTube video with a dev saying there aren't any kimonos on purpose in the game because kimonos are racist, what??? There's a shrine maiden in game that just dresses like she works in a office, it's ridiculous.

This is based on the first part. There is no gameplay and very little to actually do. Occasionally you need to look at something and interact with a object, most of the "gameplay" is looking at things through the camera and recording, the recording feature however is mostly optional so its just padding. The majority of the game is spent in dialogue or waiting for dialogue to be over so you can leave and look at something else for a moment to move forward the game and access the next lengthy dialogue sequence. At this point don't nod should just move onto making films or a TV series. I didn't feel like I made any choices that could have actually done anything, the gimmick was intriguing when life is strange was a new concept but it's tired now and everyone can see through the illusion of choice. I won't go into story but I found it disappointing. There are constant hints at horror and darkness but you don't really get any in the end, just a tiny hint of a mystery. The entire present day part is incredibly boring and poorly written, imo. The way they are acting is strange, they insist on "remembering" before doing "something", it's drawn out for the sake of drawing it out in a incredibly unnatural way. The entire future could have been cut and the game would have been better for it.

Rare modern gem for sci fi fans

Incredibly boring. Low quality puzzles, poor dialogue, terrible writing, bad interface on console. I had to constantly run around in circles trying to get the interaction prompts to appear. NPCs are shallow, souless and their jokes don't land. Only thing I liked were some environment and sound design.