First time my girlfriend saw me cry was while playing this game with her.
Took off a half-star, as the first half is more fulfilling, satisfying, and exciting than the second half.
Took off a half-star, as the first half is more fulfilling, satisfying, and exciting than the second half.
This review contains spoilers
Trying to review this game has been difficult, and has taken me quite literally hours to get the right words without explaining every detail of this game in great detail, and why I love them. Spiritfarer is a game about Stella, a woman who we're led to believe is inheriting the role of the Spiritfarer of the Afterlife, but is rather a story of a healthcare worker slowly coming to terms with her own demise from the same diseases the people she cared for used to suffer from.
This game changed my whole view of death, it didn't make me see it as purely a negative or a positive, but rather seeing the beauty in the end, and that death is just the end of life, not the end of someone. Characters will need you to help them with unfinished business in their lives before they pass, and in most cases are delaying the inevitable. The cast of characters have as much personality in them as real people, it reminds me of other "cozy" indie games, such as Stardew Valley for example. With characters such as the innocent child Stanley, or the harsh teacher in Gustavo, or the womanizing lion Giovanni, everyone manages to be memorable, and everyone succeeds at tearing my heart out of my chest when their time comes to pass.
The number one thing I can say about this game is that it is an absolute must play for anyone who enjoys games similar in genre to Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing, it will not fail to disappoint. The pace of the game is slow to its detriment, but every other aspect of the game makes up for it.
This game changed my whole view of death, it didn't make me see it as purely a negative or a positive, but rather seeing the beauty in the end, and that death is just the end of life, not the end of someone. Characters will need you to help them with unfinished business in their lives before they pass, and in most cases are delaying the inevitable. The cast of characters have as much personality in them as real people, it reminds me of other "cozy" indie games, such as Stardew Valley for example. With characters such as the innocent child Stanley, or the harsh teacher in Gustavo, or the womanizing lion Giovanni, everyone manages to be memorable, and everyone succeeds at tearing my heart out of my chest when their time comes to pass.
The number one thing I can say about this game is that it is an absolute must play for anyone who enjoys games similar in genre to Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing, it will not fail to disappoint. The pace of the game is slow to its detriment, but every other aspect of the game makes up for it.
Lindo, emocionante, perfeito.