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a nice game whose small blemishes keep it from being a fantastic game.
a game all about riding a bike around landscapes, taking polaroid pictures, and journaling seems like a game made in a lab for me specifically. unfortunately, a few things kept nagging at me during my 7ish hour playthrough: this game suffers heavily from "Please stop talking" disease which isn't helped by the writing being so ostentatious and overly serious; the character designs are genuinely so good in this one, yet the last NPC you meet and finish the game with is cartoonishly goofy looking; and for a game all about exploring and experiencing the environment, the game's camera sure wanted to fight me the entire bike ride! these are by no means game-breaking flaws by themselves, but together they definitely weighed down what should have been a short and sweet experience, making it feel more like a slog than it needed to be.
also made me want to give my mom a hug so take with that what you will.
a game all about riding a bike around landscapes, taking polaroid pictures, and journaling seems like a game made in a lab for me specifically. unfortunately, a few things kept nagging at me during my 7ish hour playthrough: this game suffers heavily from "Please stop talking" disease which isn't helped by the writing being so ostentatious and overly serious; the character designs are genuinely so good in this one, yet the last NPC you meet and finish the game with is cartoonishly goofy looking; and for a game all about exploring and experiencing the environment, the game's camera sure wanted to fight me the entire bike ride! these are by no means game-breaking flaws by themselves, but together they definitely weighed down what should have been a short and sweet experience, making it feel more like a slog than it needed to be.
also made me want to give my mom a hug so take with that what you will.