Ultimately a pretty middling experience for me, though I am down for supporting any kind of effort to make a video game musical, because I want to see a really good one of these made someday. How much you like this game is going to depend a lot on how much you like TellTale-likes, there's a lot of choices that won't effect where the overall story goes but will effect the tone of how it goes. A lot of the songs are pretty forgettable, and there were a few where I got that "this really could just be spoken but we're doing this I guess" feeling. Also, I would never have guessed this game would prompt this sentence out of me, but one of the more memorable songs in this game has a weirdly optimistic view of the nuclear bomb???

Obvious thing is obvious but, a lot of this game could be improved by increased production value. When I saw the game announced on Fig I was assuming that the near animationless characters were placeholder concept art that would be animated in the full release, but I was wrong! Also the audio balancing was all over the place. There was a pretty important character reveal in the third act in which the character was barely audible and I had to rely on the subtitles to know what was being said.

I think this is worth checking out if you're in the very small niche of people who want an experimental musical TellTale-like, but it's probably not going to be your cup of tea if you're not in that camp.

Reviewed on Aug 12, 2023


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