An effortlessly stylish puzzle/adventure game from the developers of Device 6, Year Walk, and Sayonara Wild Hearts. Loved the largely monochromatic aesthetic, the Resident Evil-style fixed camera angles, and the metafictional cross-media fuckery (they don't have Remedy money so there isn't an entire live-action short film you can actually watch or anything like that, but the narrative is very concerned with films, sculptures, music, paintings, art installations, intricate little puzzle boxes, and of course video games).

As for the puzzles, this is definitely one for the Tunic/FEZ/Void Stranger sickos out there who love nothing more than scribbling feverishly into a notebook (or in my case, a Notepad document and MS Paint canvas on my second monitor). I had a ton of fun playing this alongside my brother and racking our collective brains trying to figure out some abstractly presented math problem or which of the many, many documents in our possession held the pivotal clue for solving a puzzle.

An interesting little boss-rush action game developed for mobile (although I played the PC port using a controller, which was perfectly fine) where there is no movement or positioning, so it's strictly about choosing when to light/heavy attack and when to block, while conserving enough stamina that you don't run out while doing the latter. Complicating this is the fact that you control two characters at once; I am unfortunately very bad at multitasking so I tended to let up on the offensive entirely when either character was being attacked, but fortunately the game isn't terribly difficult if you aren't playing super aggressively to push for fast level clear times.

Story-wise, the game doesn't take any particularly big swings, but it's cute and gay and has fun leaning into some really over-the-top anime nonsense towards the end. (The credits list Promare and the Kirby games among its inspirations, if that tells you anything).

An effortlessly stylish puzzle/adventure game from the developers of Device 6, Year Walk, and Sayonara Wild Hearts. Loved the largely monochromatic aesthetic, the Resident Evil-style fixed camera angles, and the metafictional cross-media fuckery (they don't have Remedy money so there isn't an entire live-action short film you can actually watch or anything like that, but the narrative is very concerned with films, sculptures, music, paintings, art installations, intricate little puzzle boxes, and of course video games).

As for the puzzles, this is definitely one for the Tunic/FEZ/Void Stranger sickos out there who love nothing more than scribbling feverishly into a notebook (or in my case, a Notepad document and MS Paint canvas on my second monitor). I had a ton of fun playing this alongside my brother and racking our collective brains trying to figure out some abstractly presented math problem or which of the many, many documents in our possession held the pivotal clue for solving a puzzle.

An interesting little boss-rush action game developed for mobile (although I played the PC port using a controller, which was perfectly fine) where there is no movement or positioning, so it's strictly about choosing when to light/heavy attack and when to block, while conserving enough stamina that you don't run out while doing the latter. Complicating this is the fact that you control two characters at once; I am unfortunately very bad at multitasking so I tended to let up on the offensive entirely when either character was being attacked, but fortunately the game isn't terribly difficult if you aren't playing super aggressively to push for fast level clear times.

Story-wise, the game doesn't take any particularly big swings, but it's cute and gay and has fun leaning into some really over-the-top anime nonsense towards the end. (The credits list Promare and the Kirby games among its inspirations, if that tells you anything).