Like Dontnod's Life is Strange series, Tell Me Why is a mess of interactions. There's always so much to interact with in the environments, but it's mostly pointless and doesn't affect the story. These interactions slow down the pace of the game and make it boring. The gameplay also becomes a chore. If a story is to be told, the game should do it cinematically. It's exhausting and uninteresting to search for every scrap of information like a walking simulator. Also, having characters comment for minutes on everything you interact with makes things unbearable. The slowness of the animations of the character movement makes it impossible to play a game like this for long hours. I can see other reasons for the developers to do this, such as extending the gameplay hours and increasing replayability, but it's annoying that it's forced.

Although the gameplay was a bit too slow for my taste, I managed to keep up with it because the story was gripping. However, I was a bit disappointed when I finally got the first sex scene in the game after all the hours I had spent. I had taken my time, passing up many opportunities to have sex so that I could better understand the story and characters up to this point. But what I got in the end didn't live up to my expectations with all the boring filler dialog I had to read. Despite the game's interesting and good looking drawings, the sex scenes were not animated. They are just ordinary pictures with a few frames repeating each other. It's not just that the sex scenes are unsatisfying, the gameplay and locations can be too repetitive. The overall gameplay is already made up of images with still backgrounds and I don't expect all of them to be animated, but at least the most important parts, the sex scenes, need to be worked on and detailed more. Because this is the part where all the dialogs the player reads and the choices they make throughout the game pay off. So I don't know if I'll be able to play the game to the end and finish it, but for me this is a problem that makes me give up on this kind of games. I won't give it a very low rating though. As I said, it has a gripping story.

Spellforce as a series is a mess. Even though the games in the series are called first, second and third, there are so many DLCs released stand alone from the main games that you can't even tell which game is which. When you look at the chronological order of the series, the third game seems to be the first game to be played, which I guess must be a joke or something. As if the series wasn't chaotic enough to begin with, they released a remastered version of the third game years later under the name Reforced. All this makes the series incredibly unattractive for me.