I have no clue if I finished this or not, I got to a clear ending and then the game froze, alt+f4'd and restarted and got no indication that I had done anything.

I'm 90% sure I rolled credits but just didn't get the chance to see them.

I find these games interesting but they've not fallen flat for me 3/3 times. I am excited to come back and see more (maybe I haven't actually got to the credits!) but I don't think it'll satisfy me. Also when I say fallen flat I mean I am usually in awe, inspired and blown away in the first half hour, then find the whole game a slog, then I resort to a guide (not this time!) and then am let down by the ending.

I do like that you can watch the whole story in chronological order now though, which is something I really wanted in Her Story and Telling Lies.

Also I can't wait for people on Youtube to explain this to me properly.

Even if I didn't love it, I can't deny this game (and the previous Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid games) are incredibly special. Like ok, I didn't fully get it, I got annoyed at some parts, I thought some of it was unintuitive, but in 7 years there are only three games like this. As a recently graduated game designer, there's just something incredible about this game.

lol it’s wild how much I remembered this having a proper story, it’s genuinely just “kill Ares” and then a big (good) infodump at the end

Found this really annoying to play in 2022, I don’t think I understood the combat and just spammed the L1+Square spin move the whole time. The checkpoints are really bad at times and some of the puzzles are very annoying.

Still worth playing imo but I just remember it being so much better! Might be due to playing most of it on a Steam Deck while watching movies etc but I felt like at times I had no clue what the actual goal of each little area was. Really eager to try out 2 and 3 again to see what improvements they made.

Was kinda not enjoying this and then it crashed and I lost about an hour of gameplay so I took that as a sign (just because it’s a remaster doesn’t mean you can’t add autosave!)

More of the same but instead of the sequel being bigger and better, this feels like they lost the budget. The fun and interesting mini games are replaced with arcade games that I could make, had 0 interest in the story after playing the first game so I was skipping every cutscene. And while the actual gameplay does feel “better”, it’s literally the exact same. I dunno man.

Also the bit where you play as the girl has some of the worst platforming in any game I’ve played. But the ranged fight where you play as the guy was quite cool!