Does exactly what it says on the tin. Cute, charming, funny. Full of spontaneous energy, as if it was made in the spur of the moment. Anti intricate game design that doesn’t try to take too much on its plate; in fact, briefness seems to be the name of the game here and I love it. Big crunchy pixel art style and ambient music make it feel homely as you glide around its beaches, mountains and forest valleys. The island is finite, but you never feel the world wrap around itself. Instead it continuously goes left or right until you arrive at where you began and that makes it feel more vast than it actually is. Sometimes you get to look at your surroundings from binoculars and then the top down perspective you are accustomed to is substituted by a more typical three dimensional one. It lasts only while you look through the viewers, but it gives a different feeling of adventure to the game, when you can see distant peaks and low island coastal strips in fog begging for you to explore them. It even changes the flow of traversal when it introduces a new biome in the later half. More games should have the focus this 3 hour romp does. I can imagine myself going back to this just to wind down for an hour or two to take my mind off things. Really lovely.

Reviewed on Dec 08, 2023


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