look i'm a mark for quippy indie games about small slices of mundane lives that may or may not reveal other things going on with the characters and Wide Ocean Big Jacket isn't NOT one of those but it's certainly a sweeter and quieter one than most, and i do mean that in a good way.

i've been ben and i've been cloanne and i've been brad here, and i think the game is actually better for not having a big gotcha or real hidden darkness, for choosing to spend its time sitting with quiet fun and mundane conflict.

i also gotta give the game kudos for doing a good job at capturing the adolescent and the 30-something points of view separately and when they're interacting. You see a lot of projects doing one of those or the other but mixing those voices and doing both of them well is a cool little treat.

and as ever game that can do cool shit like this in like an hour is always welcome thank you for short games