Chicken Journey

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I'm tentatively leaving a positive review. The 'good' just about outweighs the 'bad'. Positives: - Great pixel art; the outdoor areas in particular are beautifully designed and the animations are cute. - Some nice tracks on the OST which complement the aesthetic. - Learn nature facts! - Lots of checkpoints (maybe a bit too many?) as there is no health bar. But there were a few things that I wasn't keen on... [h1]Puzzles[/h1] A lot of the puzzles felt tedious. In the forest area, there is a Trial of Knowledge which is basically two types of puzzles that repeat with increasing difficulty. One of them is flipping tiles so they're all the same colour (and flipping one tile will flip the ones next to it). Safe to say I'm rubbish at it, so seeing the same puzzle again and again but with a larger board had my soul shrivelling up. There's also a difficult puzzle right at the end of the Frog Temple for some reason, where numerous pillars move up and down. I managed to work it out in the end but it ate a lot of time. I guess I just wasn't expecting these sorts of puzzles in the game. It kinda dragged it down if I'm being honest. [h1]Story/Mechanics[/h1] I think generally the story was good and, ya know, it's just a cute little adventure. But the ending could have had maybe more "closure" - have the last thing be to return to the village or something. Instead, you just get your answer and then the credits roll. There are a few things that aren't explained very well, in my opinion. - When you're in the yarn closet area you can suddenly flap your wings repeatedly to reach higher places? Only there though. - You have to use the cluck to give the password to enter the tree hideout, when quest-related stuff is usually done automatically with the interact button. I think the mechanics could have been communicated better, especially in the yarn closet. The movement can be a bit slow at times, though it didn't bother me too much. (I did feel a teensy bit bored during the Frog Temple.) There are some moments where I thought "why did they do that?" - like with the yarn section where the yarn is wrapped around the needles and you have to go back and forth repeatedly to unravel it. As with some of the puzzles, these parts take away the momentum. But overall, I'd say the developers did a good job with their creation and bringing it to life. I don't want to be too harsh and give Chicken Journey a negative review because I don't think it deserves it. It just needs a bit of refining.