Such a fantastic game that I cannot stop thinking about. I highly recommend you play this game while sick, I did and it just made this game feel even more mystical (and mythical)! It’s astounding to me all the work that went into this game. It was originally a turn-based rhythm rpg and eventually turned into a word-based branching path story game after making the tough decision to scrap several months of previous work. There was an insane amount of revising to make that word charm system work seamlessly, and that painstaking spirit is very prevalent throughout the whole game. Bits and pieces from past storylines are effortlessly placed in the dialogue, and you are kept on your toes because you have absolutely no idea which path is the right one, or what piece of the puzzle you might discover. This game is so twisty and absurd that it feels extremely difficult to keep track of every little detail and when the player/reader finds out about it, that I can only imagine the devs and writers have a cork board with yarn going EVERYWHERE. This game really took me by surprise. I originally wasn’t the biggest fan of the art style, but it grew on me immensely as more gameplay mechanics unraveled and I started falling for the story and many of the characters (Dawn is my girl!). I love this game so much and I really can’t stop thinking about it. I want to show it to my family, I recommended it to my one friend, this game will not let go of me and I’m so glad it won’t (because I’m not willing to let go of it either!). This game is truly special and is a masterclass in storytelling and world-building in only a few hours.

Please do yourself a favor and play this game. It’s on game pass if you have it (which honestly you should because it’s how I’ve been playing the majority of my 2022 releases this year, and it’s like a fun subscription box when you get your games (which it literally is, but whatever)). This game feels so magical and is kinda like Grimm’s Fairytales in its mysticism. It really feels like no other game I’ve played. The only thing I could maybe compare it to is Night in the Woods, but not really for story (I also haven’t played it in a while and want to replay it) but more for the atmosphere and its young quirky gang of characters.

Overall, please, please, please play this game if you like good stories in your games. If you don’t then PLEASE don’t play this because I don’t want to read another really rude review for a game I absolutely adore (cough BOYFRIEND DUNGEON cough). Seriously it makes me want to smack some people, so don’t do it if you know you can’t appreciate it. Good day.

What an interesting game. The worst Xbox port I’ve ever seen, in fact! Yet, this game cast a spell on me. This version (and just the game in general) is very flawed and glitched out, so much so that new game + doesn’t even work! Two achievements won’t pop no matter what you do. And this game is hyperspecific about some things and weirdly vague about others! But, despite its many, many flaws, many crashes and a broken game mode, I love it. The story is simple, sure, but the characters have so much charm. The art is incredible, and don’t even get me started on the music. This game hooked me like not many games have. It was so ingrained in me that I was dreaming about back attacks and combos! This game may be very, very flawed, but I love it nonetheless.

Just to quickly explain this game, One Person Story is supposed to be a game giving life lessons, which apparently blur real life and the game (?), and are also hints to each level. Now, let’s get to this garbage!

Oooh boy, this game’s not good! The best way to describe One Person Story is that it’s pretentious. It thinks it knows what it’s talking about, while that could not be further from the truth. It takes a random turn at the end where the narrator wants to commit suicide, while the whole game, she’s just been spewing out generic “inspirational” quotes that you’d find on social media. If there was a build up to that, maybe even mentioning a good while before she turns to that, like maybe that she’s telling herself these meaningless quotes to maker herself feel better, and that it’s not working, and maybe have her commentary get grimmer, and less hopeful, reflecting her degrading mental state, but the game doesn’t do that. If anything it romanticizes suicide, because if you take the jump route instead of the not jump route (I took jump accidentally), her friends end up somehow catching her off of a cliff, and everything was okay again. THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS. I know I’m not one to talk, because my mental state has never gotten to the point where I ever attempted suicide, but I think it’s pretty obvious that this game doesn’t know what it’s talking about. It just decided to jump on the mental health game bandwagon, and tried to make something deep, meaningful, relatable, and maybe even inspirational, but it falls flat on all of those fronts.

Now, the gameplay, is not engaging or good at all! Just to add on to this already awful game! The gameplay can get annoyingly difficult on certain levels, especially since you don’t have control on the ball “character” itself, and somehow you’re supposed to move it with opening and closing doors, while it just gets stuck on corners most of time, which hampers on the impossible-to-understand timing.

The music is the same piano song for a hundred levels. IT’S THE SAME BORING, BLAND, AND ANNOYING SONG FOR A HUNDRED LEVELS!!! Imagine that, and the game takes two hours to finish. The same song for TWO HOURS.

Bottom line is: If your looking for a good, and educational video game about mental health, this is NOT that!!! DON’T waste your three dollars on it! It is not worth it! Buy something like Hellblade, and maybe Fractured Minds instead (which is a blind recommendation, since I still have to play it, but I have faith in it!).

Edit: Just finished Fractured Minds; it comes from a genuine place, but the execution is really no so good or coherent. Ideas don’t feel very fleshed out, and just bounces from one to the next. I still respect that it was made by one person across a ten month span, and that the majority of the proceeds go to a video game/mental health charity (I forgot the name). It’s worth a try, especially to donate a few bucks, but Hellblade seems like a much safer and better bet.