A walking sim that tries to accurately portray blindness and fails. I'm legally blind. I appreciate their effort but it's not a fun game.
First off, this game is pretty.The watercolor graphics are nice. It controls fine. It does have a few good ideas. The whole noise system is neat. She hears something but doesn't know what it is. Only figures it out when she is close. Cute idea. Kind of accurate to real life.
So as I said, this is a walking sim. It's pretty much only walking. Painfully slow walking. I get it, she can't see and thus walks slow. But it's not fun.
Okay here is where I get real critical. The story. It's cute, but there are some major issues in terms of accuracy. I want to remind you, I'm legally blind.
First, this is like an 8 year old girl. Where are her parents? And why would any adult leave her unsupervised knowing she is blind. That's bad parenting.
Secondly, where is her cane? She should know how to use a cane as this point. She is 10 and as far as we know, she was born blind. As someone who uses a cane for their sight, it is beyond me, why she doesn't have one. If she would one, have more confidence walking around and two, not fall, trip and struggle so much.
Like I appreciate the devs tried to make a game about someone who is blind. I appreciate they tried to convey a blind person's experiences of the world. However, I don't feel like they spoke to anyone in the visually impaired community.
The game is soooo tedious with such an obvious story. A for effort but fails in most ways.
First off, this game is pretty.The watercolor graphics are nice. It controls fine. It does have a few good ideas. The whole noise system is neat. She hears something but doesn't know what it is. Only figures it out when she is close. Cute idea. Kind of accurate to real life.
So as I said, this is a walking sim. It's pretty much only walking. Painfully slow walking. I get it, she can't see and thus walks slow. But it's not fun.
Okay here is where I get real critical. The story. It's cute, but there are some major issues in terms of accuracy. I want to remind you, I'm legally blind.
First, this is like an 8 year old girl. Where are her parents? And why would any adult leave her unsupervised knowing she is blind. That's bad parenting.
Secondly, where is her cane? She should know how to use a cane as this point. She is 10 and as far as we know, she was born blind. As someone who uses a cane for their sight, it is beyond me, why she doesn't have one. If she would one, have more confidence walking around and two, not fall, trip and struggle so much.
Like I appreciate the devs tried to make a game about someone who is blind. I appreciate they tried to convey a blind person's experiences of the world. However, I don't feel like they spoke to anyone in the visually impaired community.
The game is soooo tedious with such an obvious story. A for effort but fails in most ways.
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@redbackloggd So I'm not completely blind. I'm blind enough that I'm legally not allowed to drive. And for everyone to use it against me, but not enough for the govt to help me in any meaningfully way.
I brute force my way through games. Very rarely does my eyesight stop me. It's always nice to have accessibility. Some modern games do a great job. Others are infuriating like anything Square makes. They lack even basic accessibility. It simply takes me longer to beat games. If you are ever curious I do have a Twitch channel. I lose my shit at terrible design there all the time.
I brute force my way through games. Very rarely does my eyesight stop me. It's always nice to have accessibility. Some modern games do a great job. Others are infuriating like anything Square makes. They lack even basic accessibility. It simply takes me longer to beat games. If you are ever curious I do have a Twitch channel. I lose my shit at terrible design there all the time.
I'm sorry man. The fact that you're able to put up quality reviews in spite of your disadvantages with game interactions speaks a lot to your talent.
And yeah, I feel like Japanese companies, in general, are behind on that aspect of game dev.
And yeah, I feel like Japanese companies, in general, are behind on that aspect of game dev.
Who could SEE this coming 🥁😏
@duchomp surely not me. :)
RedBackLoggd
21 days ago