This is so hard up my alley. A cute, short, pixel art, touching story, whimsical, engaging story, with a relationship that is not quite sad dad territory but close enough. I enjoyed my 5 hours playing the game. There is an ending at the 3 hour mark but that's not the full ending.

There is no exploration in this game. You go from screen to screen by choosing it on the map. Also there are basically only boss battles which means you are always as leveled as the developer wants you to be. This is good in concept but I feel the gameplay is a bit underbaked. They don't start doing interesting things by putting little mini games in the battles until near the end. The game uses battles as a way to also deliver story which is great but I feel the battle system in general holds the game back a bit.

Overall a really cool world and touching story. Is it an amazing world and story? I wouldn't go that far but if, like me, this sounds up your alley you'd probably enjoy it.