SEVEN ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ STAR GAME
it’s perfect 🤍 we get 3 chapters from a graphic novel video game that looks into someone’s crippling depression. Feelings of being depleted & anxiety are portrayed, to great effect, by the tone evoked by the pencil strokes of the game’s author/artist, Ida. A success of the team that brought Ida’s drawings to life is how cleverly the game’s UI elements are seamlessly integrated into the panels of comic art. The mechanics of the game are intuitive. Advancing through the chapters is graceful, compared to the visual novel “gameplay” of the monotony of repeatedly clicking the same button to advance a game’s story. I haven’t played many games on this small scale that impress by how polished they are.
You can feel the love and angst that went into making this.
I’m glad that people who are able to relate to the themes of ‘Stilstand’ will be reminded that they are not alone in their struggles.
it’s perfect 🤍 we get 3 chapters from a graphic novel video game that looks into someone’s crippling depression. Feelings of being depleted & anxiety are portrayed, to great effect, by the tone evoked by the pencil strokes of the game’s author/artist, Ida. A success of the team that brought Ida’s drawings to life is how cleverly the game’s UI elements are seamlessly integrated into the panels of comic art. The mechanics of the game are intuitive. Advancing through the chapters is graceful, compared to the visual novel “gameplay” of the monotony of repeatedly clicking the same button to advance a game’s story. I haven’t played many games on this small scale that impress by how polished they are.
You can feel the love and angst that went into making this.
I’m glad that people who are able to relate to the themes of ‘Stilstand’ will be reminded that they are not alone in their struggles.
Reviewed on Jul 06, 2022