Let Me Out

gameplay & story nya bagus

I can't recommend it for some unfortunately really frustrating parts. It's a small game of exploration/puzzle about 4 hours long, with an original storyline. The graphics and ambient music are fine, the gameplay a bit irksome as you have to be just in the right place to interact with objects (e.g. for the "boss fight" at the end you have to hurry in between monsters to interact with a thing, but you have to move in and back a couple times before you can, losing precious time and patience). The sounds are strangely wrong, like if you pick up a ceramic plate you should hear the ting of a ceramic object, instead you hear a thonk from ... I don't know, a rock hitting a tree? The problem with the exploration part is that the map is quite messy, I got lost in really small levels. And sometimes the path or objective is hinted at with lights, sometimes not. One level end is through a gate, but the gate looks exactly the same as the wood fence all around the level, and it's in the dark and in the mist. It's not enjoyable to have to look at a walkthrough just to find the exit. Finally, the puzzle part. They're supposed to be simple, and they are, for the most part. But again, with a few frustrating inconsistencies. I was stuck forever trying to make a potion, I had the recipe, all the ingredients were clearly there, but in this level I couldn't interact with any of them. The answer was that I already had the potion. Then it was figuring out where to use it. Anyway, the game is cute, it has an engaging story, it's just a shame that the gameplay has so much friction.