Backfirewall_

A charming little puzzle adventure with an interesting and funny story, likable characters with excellent voice acting, and creative level and world design.

I found this game to be below average. The performance is not good. There are a lot of lag spikes all over the place that I could not find a solution to. The writing is incoherent and dull at its worst, and kind of amusing at its best. I did not feel attached to the overall plot and characters, except one character and their fate. There is no adventure. You walk slowly along a prepared path and do some very very light puzzling at times. But mostly it's just talking to people, do some "fetch quest"-like tasks, or do the next obvious thing ahead of you. You go from area to area for no reason in particular and stuff just happens around you. It feels like the game areas were designed first and then shoehorned into the narrative. The game is trying very hard to be funny, and it doesn't really work. The funniest moment in the game that I recall is a reference to a children's film. You are given a few "verbs" that you can do as the player. You can delete stuff, copy stuff, recolor stuff, or "flip"-stuff (which can have different effects depending on context). These verbs are used sparingly, and when you encounter a situation where the verbs can be used in interesting ways, you will rarely or never encounter similar situations again. In one area in particular there is a small interesting puzzle that requires you to utilize both the recolor and the flip actions to solve it. But the puzzle is easy, and you don't encounter any more puzzles of the same type again. In all other areas, like voice acting, art, and music - the game is not great, but completely fine.