Lake is weird, its endearing and cozy, a word people always use for cutesy games with no combat and nice environmental settings, but it does feel that way. It's kinda like a mild cousin of Stardew Valley where you come to a small town from the big city and spend your days doing your daily tasks and making friends, possibly falling in love and also doing optional errands and hangouts with people you meet. But it's very watered down, its a very barebones experience with stiff controls (both the walking and driving are painfully slow, even the fast walk is slow as hell, but I understand it's probably the whole mentality of "take it easy, there's no rush, not everything has to be go go go"). Thankfully, there is a fast travel option on the map that I only discovered a few hours in.
As someone from a small town with lakes and countryside, I liked the setting, and getting to calmly cruise the roads in your mail truck. The mail delivery aspect, despite being the main objective everyday, is barely there though, just slowly walking to a mailbox and pressing X, or getting a parcel from your truck and pressing X to drop it off. There's literally nothing to this. I don't mean to shit on the small team of developers, this is an indie as hell video game. But it's not very involved.
Also want to mention, hats off to the music department, because the songs that play on the radio sound exactly like the dull generic adult-contemporary music I used to hear growing up on my local radio station, they nailed that aspect. And the video store too, all of the parody/fake VHS covers were incredible. They went all out, with references to Repo Man, Stand By Me, Flashdance, Gremlins, but all with humorous altered titles and artwork. As someone who is a movie nerd, I got involved with the owner of the store, and we went to see Blue Velvet at the movies for a date. Loved that! Although... and this is me being a total nitpicky loser - Meredith picks up a copy of the Albert Brooks comedy Lost in America at one point and reads the back, and they completely get the actresses name wrong that plays his wife. It's Julie Hagerty! Come on folks, do y'all not IMDb?
I try to strictly Platinum games I either love, or really enjoy, but there is a small handful of ones I have that I just kinda liked. Lake is definitely one of them, but the trophy list is so small and easy, and the 3 endings are easily achievable if you save before the final stretch of the game and then can go back and make all the different choices to see all the endings. Which I wanted to do, because I legit was curious about what each ending was like. Who does she get with? Where does she go? What does she do? Is she happy?!?!
This might be up your alley, and it's nice and short, but I wouldn't put it past anyone that might give up on this for being too slow and tedious. I did get wrapped up in certain characters and was curious as to what happens, as there's plenty of dialogue choices and directions you can go. It's a special breed of game, but there's absolutely stuff to like here.
As someone from a small town with lakes and countryside, I liked the setting, and getting to calmly cruise the roads in your mail truck. The mail delivery aspect, despite being the main objective everyday, is barely there though, just slowly walking to a mailbox and pressing X, or getting a parcel from your truck and pressing X to drop it off. There's literally nothing to this. I don't mean to shit on the small team of developers, this is an indie as hell video game. But it's not very involved.
Also want to mention, hats off to the music department, because the songs that play on the radio sound exactly like the dull generic adult-contemporary music I used to hear growing up on my local radio station, they nailed that aspect. And the video store too, all of the parody/fake VHS covers were incredible. They went all out, with references to Repo Man, Stand By Me, Flashdance, Gremlins, but all with humorous altered titles and artwork. As someone who is a movie nerd, I got involved with the owner of the store, and we went to see Blue Velvet at the movies for a date. Loved that! Although... and this is me being a total nitpicky loser - Meredith picks up a copy of the Albert Brooks comedy Lost in America at one point and reads the back, and they completely get the actresses name wrong that plays his wife. It's Julie Hagerty! Come on folks, do y'all not IMDb?
I try to strictly Platinum games I either love, or really enjoy, but there is a small handful of ones I have that I just kinda liked. Lake is definitely one of them, but the trophy list is so small and easy, and the 3 endings are easily achievable if you save before the final stretch of the game and then can go back and make all the different choices to see all the endings. Which I wanted to do, because I legit was curious about what each ending was like. Who does she get with? Where does she go? What does she do? Is she happy?!?!
This might be up your alley, and it's nice and short, but I wouldn't put it past anyone that might give up on this for being too slow and tedious. I did get wrapped up in certain characters and was curious as to what happens, as there's plenty of dialogue choices and directions you can go. It's a special breed of game, but there's absolutely stuff to like here.