thank you tim sweeney i love the taste of mid free roguelike in the morning

I think the game taps into the funny side of edgy well enough, with the dumb guitar songs (affectionate) and the overblown announcer in the main menu. Gameplay is definitely there, the core action is simple enough to be fun to bulldoze through. I don't get why the second boss has a full on bullet hell attack though, it doesn't really fit with the stiff movement which was otherwise tolerable.

It's kinda fun, but not all that gripping. There's definitely worse ways to spend zero dollars on the Epic Games Store, though. Like when Fallout 3 is available next week probably.

(This game isn't even free anymore by the way)

Honestly reminds me of a Flash game, the kind that makes a small adventure that's not the most robust thing, but still charming enough to keep you invested for an hour or so.

It's sort of interesting, but the actual puzzle solving that surrounds the core concept ends up being really simple since they each all need to be visited and cleared within a minute. Meanwhile, there's never much of an urge to chain objectives within one play session, so the minute mechanic becomes more of a minor inconvenience instead of an interesting challenge. Overall, this game feels like more of a cute sampling of ideas instead of a time based concept pushed to its limit.

I definitely wouldn't have felt like this was $10 worth (I got this in an itch bundle), not particularly because of the inane "game length vs price" debate, but moreso since the game just ended up being unspectacular and a bit obtuse at times.

This game is just a total slog, to be frank. Feels like you just go through the same old couple of quests through boring overworlds and generic combat over and over. Fight the same enemies to get whatever you need, until your health is too worn out, and then just go back to town and heal. Over and over.

But what about the concept, the whole whining to change the game state thing? I mean, it sounds pretty interesting in theory, but it quickly starts to feed into mind numbing quests. Most of its uses end up being like "turn a desert place into a garden place so you can collect flowers". That kind of stuff. What could have been a cool idea just becomes another pool of points you use to just get on your way through the samey overworld.

The intro is cute. Princess Elise is indeed epic, for instance, she's so lazy that she gets her parrot to learn her spells for her. However, most of the actual story is just going from town to town with nothing else happening. All the quest dialogue tries to be "funny" by going "Wowee it sure is funny that you beat this QUEST in this VIDEO GAME! I wonder why all the innkeepers look so similar??".

However, I will draw attention to one of these meta jokes I did find funny. On one occasion, you've got a branching path between two towns. One being Farmer Place, and the other Skulls and Death Land (can't be bothered to check the exact names). And the mentor character muses to himself, "Oh Gee, I wonder whether she'll go to Farmer Place or Skulls and Death Land, what a truly hard decision not being sarcastic at all"

For those of you wondering, I went to Skulls and Death Land.

Edit: uh it's complicated apparently this game is cool actually? Im just playing through right now ill get back to this later

"ok boomer" is one of the rawest lines in history and it comes from Revolver and Co of all things.

for real though it's a pretty typical trivia game, good aesthetics but if you're not in the mood to estimate numbers about various facts well there isn't too much here.

Also there's a lot of questions about units for measuring wine bottles