Flibbius McDoogle and the Mysterious Flying Machine

So I want to start out saying that Flibbius is an adorable game and I do recommend it. At $5 I think it's worth the time for the delightful writing. I do have my issues with it though which I will list below. Let's start with the good... 1) The price tag. You can complete the game in about 1.5-2.5 hours. I beat it in 1.8 with a couple achievements left to get. But the short play time isn't bad when you take into account that it's only $5. I got a key for free to review, but had I paid the $5 I wouldn't be upset about it. 2) The opening cutscene is absolutely amazing! It's very stylized, adorable, funny. I don't know if it's actually stop motion, but it looks like it is and I love me some good stop motion. 3) The dialogue is amazing. It's so funny and it was a joy to read. Honestly it's my favorite part of the game. Whoever was in charge of this, kudos. Very well done, very entertaining. Many parts of it gave me quite the chuckle and put a smile on my face. 4) The sound design is lovely and so are the visuals. Though I was disappointed to find that the whole game didn't look like the opening cutscene and that we never see that style again. But the visuals are still very cute, very simple. The characters are all super cute and well designed. Well done. 5) For the most part (and I have a section in the negatives for this) the puzzles are very straight forward. Classic point and click puzzle mechanics of combine things to make another thing to move forward. Generally speaking everything was fairly easy to figure out once you had all the components and some of them were rather clever. Like [spoiler] using a hammer on a sunflower to get the oil you need for one of the puzzles [/spoiler] So the game isn't just a cake walk. Some are super easy and some took a bit of thought and I just loved it. 6) The story isn't anything emotional or anything, but it's a straight forward little adventure of a turtle who wants to fly. Which is a cute concept and I enjoyed Flibbius's little journey. All in all the game is quick, simple, and adorable to look at. A nice quick playthrough for an adult who just wants a short game to play, and a great point and click puzzle game for kids. Now onto the few negatives I had.... 1) Again I really loved the style of the opening scene and I wish we saw it more. For instance... the ending of the game was rather anti-climactic. I had kinda assumed that we would be greeted by that delightful animation again at the end of the game. Rather the game just kinda... ends. Once you do what you need to with the flying machine. 2) The hammer.... most of the puzzles starting out require a hammer. However you don't find this hammer, you make it. Normally I would spoiler something like this but I'm not going to here. You need to combine a rock and a stick to get the hammer. The game *DOES* contain hints, but nothing in the game really hints at needing to make a hammer. In fact there's a cave you can go down into that has a letter talking about flint. So I assumed I need to solve the puzzle in the cave to get the flint. No.. you need the hammer. I won't spoil the actual puzzle to get the flint. Don't worry. But I did find it frustrating when a large chunk of the playthrough was trying to figure out how on earth to get flint when I couldn't find the clue for the cave puzzle anywhere. And HAD I figured it out before I did the hammer... I would have been very confused when the cave did not produce flint. The only way you are going to get the hammer it feels like is to either just... make it on accident? Or the way I did which was to look up a walk through trying to find the answer to the cave... only to discover that there was a hammer I needed to make. It would be nice if somewhere in the hint book it said something about needing a tool to get the flint, rather than just saying you need flint for something. 3) I said all the puzzles were pretty straight forward... but there is a SINGLE puzzle that makes zero sense to me. And that's for one of the things you need cloth for [spoiler] to get the cloth you need to combine nails with yarn [/spoiler] and that... that doesn't make much sense to me. I did this one on accident just trying random stuff. That solution just doesn't make much sense. I'm not sure how you get cloth from that. 4) My final complaint is the controls. It's nothing huge. The game is playable and if you are playing with controller I'm sure you'll be fine. But I played with keyboard and mouse, and I wish I could have changed the interacting button from left click to F. And I wish that the camera followed my mouse rather than me having to right click and drag to move the camera. Ultimately none of my issues with the game make it unplayable or make it not worth playing. The only one I can see being a true problem for some people. Is the hammer thing. Again I wish there was a clue given somewhere that you need to make a hammer, because if you don't you won't be able to figure out most of the puzzles. But if you're the kind of person that just tries random stuff, it wouldn't be an issue for you. End of the day it's worth your time and $5. Especially if you have a kid! Again. A fun little game for an adult, but I think it's a game my kid would enjoy playing too. Could be a great early game for a kiddo just getting into gaming. So I say spend the $5 for a fun little romp. I also hope that maybe we get more of Flibbius at some point and get to join him on his little flying adventures. 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