Coated in a layer of zoomer-esque humor, Later Alligator certainly has a demographic. I found that initial vibe to be a bit of a disconnect for me, but I pushed through.

The game is essentially a quirky minigame collection that takes place in an point and click adventure game. There's a whole list of collectables in the form of puzzle pieces and family member badges. Gathering the family member badges is related to story completion in a fun way. There's also a time system, but I do wish there were some way to pass time faster.

The story is a good bit of fun, and there's even a bit of intrigue here and there. I found meeting the characters to be the best part of the game along with how the story unravels the mystery in a fun way. I highly recommend getting the true ending to really enjoy the game.

Also, Pat is 24, but feels like a 7 year old lolol

It was quite charming and very well animated, although I think the time system adds an unnecessary pressure that discouraged me from wanting to fully explore each area. Once I discovered that attempts to fill in the family tree also took time I ignored that part of the game entirely.

I'm sure it's to encourage repeat play throughs but I'm not sure why that would be seen as a better system as simply not having the time limit and allowing me to just talk to all the characters at my own pace, or retry minigames without then being locked out from having enough time to visit other people.

I GOTTA REPLAY THIS SOMETIME AND PLAY THE UPDATE.
so so fun and delightful. so charming with an enormous number of animations and cute details. this game is too silly and I love it so much. I still remember the characters and situations really well after all this time. some minigames are more fun than the others, and it can be hard to do everything you want to with the time limit, but the game is so short that it's almost a non issue to me. love the ending, love this game, PLAY IT.
(also soundtrack is great thanks 2Mello)

A charming lil point and click game. It's really nothing special in my opinion. The artwork is great and the music is swinging but thats pretty much it. From the jump you can really tell that Pat's just buggin' but that's the charm in it. I wish more of the characters dialogue was like "Oh yeah Pat will get whats fucking comin' to em" or "Yeah pats gonna 'die' when he sees what we've got in store.
Characters were still charming too though, very nice. Some characters I kinda wanted to stop talking to me and some got a laugh outta me.

Solid game. Was cute. Probably not going back through it though.

This game is really cute and overall a fun time. The game's sense of humor is really funny, which elevates the actual minigames. The characters are really endearing and in some spots do feel like you're talking to a real family that you're friends with. There's a goro majima alligator whose minigame is just the creator expressing their fantasy of wanting to fuck him lol. The game's biggest strength is the artstyle and animation. Extremely top notch and talented filled with details that they didn't need to put the time to put in, which makes it even better and more impressive that they did.

The only issue is that there's kinda no replay value. The game does incentivize you to play three times to see the full story, but once you do that there's not much to do, since you've seen all the jokes and characters.

Other than that, still a great game filled with so much talent. 9/10

It was okay. I think the animation is really charming and well done, and the music is too. I think having different dialogue scroll sounds for different characters would've been cool, considering how much dialogue there is. Even if there were just like, 5 or 6 different ones that characters shared. Total personal preference though.

Some of the minigames were kind of wack. Like the shoe/drawer one was totally luck based, and the anime dating one was fun in concept, but way too long and there was literally no way to know how good you were doing until it was over. When I played it, I thought it ended really well based on the dialogue, but then it told me I failed, and I was so confused. I also wish the time mechanic was more defined throughout the game. You don't know how long something takes (conversation/game/whatever) until you've already done it. They had the times listed for retrying a minigame, but not for anything else, which I think is kinda odd. And because of the time mechanic, you literally can't do everything in one playthrough. And I get that it encourages replayability, but (and I could be wrong here) I feel like the stuff I missed didn't encapsulate a full, secondary, completely different playthrough? And there were also a few of those minigames you HAD to play at least once. So I feel like encouraging replayability shouldn't have been a focus here. And on top of all of that, I felt like the game dragged for just a bit too long. Or maybe it was some of the minigames being too long that made me feel that way.

Regardless, I had fun. I probably just won't be replaying it.