Recent reviews by Rat Slapper

Couldnt bring myself to do the bad ending. Im too soft hearted. What a beautiful game <3

7.5/10

Overall a delightful souls life game, with a simple yet good story and a cute art style. And doesn't run unnessasary long like some souls like do.

My issues with the game come from just a couple things.

First and by far the most annoying. The sound bug that has NEVER been fixed since launch. It got so bad some playthroughs i had to restart my pc sometimes just to play.

Some of the shortcuts and level design was confusing and not well placed. For the shortcuts i found some of them to be oddly placed and sometimes got quite lost in some levels and just ended up going the long way. For the level design, i like how some puzzles use your height in clever ways, but it wasnt utalized enough! Theres a plunging attack that is NEVER used. Also the plunging secret sewer tunnels, never figured that out till i was 80% done the game. Some of the magic abilities were used only in one level and never again, and that felt like a waste of such a cool mechanic.

Finally the combat, its surprisionely easy. I was going to reccomend that this game is a lot more accessable for newer to soulslike fans. But then theres the Crow boss. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ his hit box makes no sense. Max range on my weapon and id never hit him. Then he'd clip into me and get a free hit. He was by far the most unfair boss and the only one i took so many attempts to beat.

Overall a sdecent game. Though that umbrella achivement was aids

Bioshock in Space.

What a fantastic game. The story, the writing, the characters, the choices. You really can't go wrong if you're looking for an awesome experience. My only complaint would be the bugs, save a lot!

Also don't be like me and go ham with the ammo, just cause you have a lot in the beginning. Proper Ammo management is important.

A beautifully written, short story about cooking, culture, and family. I legit sobbed finishing it the first time, I was truly touched with how simple and beautiful this game portrays the hardships of moving to a new country and trying to hold onto your traditions while also trying to change with the ever growing enviroment. Also they share the recipies after you finish them!! I can't wait to try them out myself!

Perhaps, if this was my first store management type game i might have enjoyed this more. That being said i feel like there's parts of a good game here, it's not all bad. But overall the game loop didn't feel enjoyable. I tried so very hard to complete as many goals as possible before i stopped playing. But I just couldn't do it, i wasn't having fun anymore

Many of the arcade games are buggy, making it very difficult to achieve certain goals and achievements. (but not impossible) But at the same time you can see how much effort and love there was put into many many of these arcade games. And a couple of the games i did throughly enjoy playing.

The biggest issue with this game is how much time wasting there is. So many minimal tasks and goals and even cabinets just waste time, and it's so unbelievably boring.

Overall, there were some moments of this game i did enjoy. Some of the cabinets were genuinely fun, and i really loved the spin off so many arcade classics.

But i didn't enjoy my overall experience. And i'd reccomend you look for a better game

I enjoyed this game, I do feel like there's something here. I actually 100% it. Got all recepies and finished all levels. I just don't feel like it's utilised well enough. Im not sure how often developers read these, but here I go:

-I wish you could sell items, My truck bed became littered with stuff i did not need and would just waste time being in the way of other items. Only give the player 25% back of the original price or something.

-I think it's more challenging if you don't give players all the items they need to complete a recipe when they purchase it. Like show the player what appliances they need with the tutorial that comes with a recipe. Have them work for it instead. Many time i accidentally bought an appliance i already had. I had so many unnecessary duplicates.
-The game on normal becomes very easy to complete, money becomes irrelevant, so shop visits become pointless in the 3rd level difficulty. On all three modes i got everything i needed by level 2 and didn't need to do much work on level 3 as a result. I don't think normal should be easy. I don't think it should be hard. I think it should give some minor challenge but be enjoyable. As it is right now, it's too easy.
-More shop items are a must, and limit how many of a shop item you can get. Also make it a bit harder to get money.
-Random occurance spaces needs to be more game changing. They feel boring.
-I know its a lot to model characters, but more customer types would be great.
-It's nessasry that only one caravan can exist on one save. Making a new game everytime you wanted to start a new type between: coffee,tea and icecreameis an odd choice. Instead make a small map with three locations on it, swapping the caravan type within one save. Why? What if i actually want to start a new save or let my friend play but don't want to loose my caravan type? You give us 3 saves and 3 caravan types. you do the math

Amazing story telling. Tells enough without treating the player like an idiot.

Also as someone who loves the 100% my games i appriciate how the devs added a dev console to swap between chapters easily.

Small spolier: I liked watching the steam awards video of the characters. Makes me think that they're all actors in this game and everyone is okay in the end

10/10 Would shake again

Easy achievements

Its impossible to play half of this game. The first adventure has been blocked off for years now. So you cant even play half of the game. The half you can play is rough, puzzles are obscure and i was forced to look up some of the answers because some of the things just make NO sense.