It's hard to describe this game because the main appeal is really how much heart it manages to fit in to itself. The gameplay kind of ranges between fun to kinda bad but rarely gets too egregious. There's quite a few segments that are realy fun!

The main thing that keeps it going though is all the various interactions that you can have with the side characters and get to appreciate that emotional depth that the writing team headed by Tim Schafer fit in to it all.