Jack Smith

(Will contain spoilers) Overall I very much enjoyed Lake. It’s a nice relaxing experience that will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy at it’s end. The story leaves you feeling more and more immersed as the game progresses and you really start to care for some of these characters. However, nothing is perfect. I’ll begin with the performance issues. Now this may very well be because I’m playing on an Xbox One and I’m not extremely well versed with with graphics and performance stuff but there was many moments where I was running on probably 10 FPS, and that definitely hindered the immersion at points. Secondly, (and I’ll group these into one category) The voice acting is good, but it’s ruined by the facial expressions and body language. The characters seem so dead and whenever a VA is delivering a line with such passion the model is just robotically flapping it’s mouth, the blinking doesn’t help either. Thirdly, the concept of mail delivery seems fun at first but when you start getting into the second week it’s just a bore. You just want to get through the day so you can progress in the story with whoever you may be meeting with that night. It just became frustrating and I began sighing in annoyance every time it would spawn me back out in front of the post office every morning. Some sort of random encounters while driving or opening mailboxes would be a welcomed addition. I know I stated a lot of negatives but at the end of the day this game is good, and I highly recommend you play it. (It’s on gamepass right now!) It’s very relaxing and nice to come home to after a hard day at school or work.