If you want to feel really, really good about yourself while sipping vanilla soy latte in an overpriced coffee shop, this is the game for you.
Yes, the idea is great, and the text messaging format is well used. Too bad the writing -- the central aspect of a game like this, after all -- is so corny, cliched and self-satisfied. If you can stomach the Netflix-tier snarky banter of the protagonists for longer than 30 minutes, you are stronger than me.
They are supposed to be a husband-and-wife couple from Syria, but sound more like siblings or BFFs from San Francisco that occasionally play in a band together. The spunky girlboss wife travels alone, while the husband stays at home -- you know, the classic refugee tale.
In a game that's so much about verisimilitude, and about such a serious subject matter, stuff like this is just hard to overlook. Which is a shame, as the concept had a lot of potential.
Yes, the idea is great, and the text messaging format is well used. Too bad the writing -- the central aspect of a game like this, after all -- is so corny, cliched and self-satisfied. If you can stomach the Netflix-tier snarky banter of the protagonists for longer than 30 minutes, you are stronger than me.
They are supposed to be a husband-and-wife couple from Syria, but sound more like siblings or BFFs from San Francisco that occasionally play in a band together. The spunky girlboss wife travels alone, while the husband stays at home -- you know, the classic refugee tale.
In a game that's so much about verisimilitude, and about such a serious subject matter, stuff like this is just hard to overlook. Which is a shame, as the concept had a lot of potential.