Black Swan

It's not awful. I didn't run into the save corruption issues others had, since I played it all in one session, but I still didn't overly enjoy it. I had some issues with object hitboxes in some of the HOG scenes, and had to finish one using the match-3 mode because the game would not register my clicks. I even double-checked I was hitting the right item using the hint button, although considering the way the hint button betrayed me later in the game who knows. In the later stages of the game the hint button would start indicating areas I could not interact with in anyway, leaving me worried I was about to be softlocked. I made it to the end regardless, but I'm not sure it was worth it in hindsight. The logic is frequently weird in terms of what you can use where. A lot of the time you're looking for something long or something sharp, and you will most likely have something long and/or sharp in your inventory, but the specific long and/or sharp object you need will be behind another puzzle. I found the sequence puzzles after the HOG scenes somewhat irritating. The order in which you're allowed to pick up and use things is extremely rigid, often for no clear reason. Sometimes something is interactable at the start that you won't be able to open until the very end, or an object that you can clearly see is something you're going to use won't be clickable until some arbitrary point. The story was disappointing. I don't expect much from a HOG storyline -- it'll either be serviceable or bad -- but this one managed to be boring somehow. It started out promising, but completely fizzled out well before the end. There's a section of the backstory diary where the text is a storyboard description for the cutscene, rather than the narration of said cutscene. The voice acting and subtitles were very different in places, as though scripts were still being refined or there was some lapse in communication during production. It speaks to a lack of QA and a lack of general care. The ghost at the start mentions living students, and we see one waking up for some reason in the final cutscene, but I don't think we actually see her anywhere else. There's a bunch of brief interactions with some ghost ballerinas who all look pretty much the same, so maybe we did see her...I don't know. Comparing it to other HOGs I've played, even the dumbest ones had a kind of B-movie appeal...this is just...bland. Deeply discounted or in a bundle I guess this is an okay waste of time which sort of scratches the HOG itch, but it's also unsatisfying throughout.

I wanted to like it but the controls are clumsy and annoying and that keeps me from enjoying this game. This could be really good.

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Keeps crashing. Not even playable.

Dünyanın en zevkli oyunu. Bu oyunu oynayana kadar eğlencenin ne olduğunu bilmediğimi fark ettim. Mantığın ve sürrealizmin dışında bir gerçeklik. Bu oyunda dikkat edilmesi gereken tek kural bir şeyi yapıyorsanız sebebi vardır. Ha birde kuğu alerjiniz varsa tavsiye etmem.

Can't progress past certain points, customers raised in the discussions but seems the devs don't care Can't recommend broken games with no support...

Don't take the game seriously.