I think the rating speaks more for the effort that went into the art direction for this game for Crows Crows Crows being a relatively unknown studio, for putting this out even though it's a short experience, its visual department is unique.

Although, it is shortlived mostly because of the lack of choices you actually have in game, and that also some things in the script might be too much too fast to handle but after a bit (and especially if you go hunting for achievements) you understand your place as a player who wants to play the game, only to be used as a backstage person who would do the stuff for you, to other person.

But sadly, not much gameplay and not too much diversion, doesn't even come with an episode system or something so you could at least rewind to a part if you missed a collectible (coin or pretzel) so the achievements aren't that hard to get.

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A short story about the sort of behind-the-scenes world of video game management inspired by the success of Stanley Parable. There is also an announcer here, but he is so so, although there are a couple of funny moments, unlike Stanley, here your decisions do not affect anything and even very few remarks from the announcer if you try to do something not according to instructions.

In general, a normal indie story without any special secret deep meanings, well, at least I did not find them, but with Incredibly beautiful map design. My respect to the mapper.

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Коротенькая история о типо закулисном мире управления видеоигрой, вдохновлённой успехом Stanley Parable. Тут также есть диктор, но он дурацкий и бесячий, хотя есть пара смешных моментов, ещё в отличии от Стенли тут твои решения не на что не влияют и даже очень мало реплик диктора, если пытаться что-то делать не по указаниям.

В общем, нормальная инди история без каких-то особых тайных глубоких смыслов, ну, по крайней мере я их не нашёл, но С Невероятно красивым Дизайном карт. Глаз просто кайфовал каждую секунду, моё почтение мапперу.

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After the Stanley Parable Wreden split off to make The Beginners Guide a very mature and interesting look into the psyche of game dev and critique. In contrast Pugh just kept milking The Stanley Parable by just making worse versions of it. It may seem cruel to overly critique a free 20 minute game, but there is nothing here worth seeing.

The concept seems cute at first, what if every time someone played a game the devs had to run it like a play performance? But the game does nothing with it. the gameplay is simply just basic walking and clicking buttons. The comedy is all variations of "Everything is under control ! something bad happens" or "Hit this switch *something bad happens" Uhh I mean this other switch". The narrator can be hard to understand due to his mushy pronunciation. The art design basically just looks like backstage a large performance with lacking the clever touches of the Stanley Parable. Even being short and free there is just nothing here worth seeing unless you like hearing variations of the same joke for 20 minutes.