My Big Sister: Remastered

a very good casual game. I recommend it. it's very cute made. a good length of story. very cool pixel graphic I love it. some puzzles. the price of this game is alright.

[h2]Pretty solid, but there's still some signature Stranga games jank[/h2] Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, sure it's not the end of the world, but you'd think by now there'd have been a bit more proofreading and spellchecking, because this has been an issue with Stranga games from the start. Honestly, still kind of buggy, going from fullscreen to windowed doesn't work properly, just like every other game by Stranga I've played so far; there's something up with the therapist where you can give him the doll after giving him the brain, and you can just continuously give him the doll even after that if you want. There's no autosprint which is really annoying, and the sprint that does exist feels really slow, particularly in the larger areas, so I think some areas could be made smaller, or the sprint speed increased. The pixel art is pretty great honestly, a stand out example is Sombria's sort of disappear animation, that's pretty materful, visually this game is a massive step up from something like "Just ignore them", the character portraits do feel really underutilised though, they're by far some of the best work in the game but don't even have different expressions, it's one of those things were that little bit of missing polish stands out, I would've loved if they were utilised a bit more even just to convey visual information, rather than just who's talking. The music is great -at times maybe a little repetitive- but I still loved it. The story, honestly I felt it was a bit all over the place, it could do with some polishing, streamlining, the whole [spoiler]it was all a dream, you were in a coma all along[/spoiler] thing is kind of overdone, and can feel pretty dissatisfying, I'm still not sure how I feel about it, I think it's serviceable at least, but I would've maybe preferred it stay a bit more on the supernatural side, but the story may need a lot of tweaking for that and it's tough to say if I'd still have enjoyed the final product after those tweaks, execution matters. At the end of the day, it's mostly a narrative game, it's a lot of reading, some puzzles, it could maybe do with a bit more show don't tell, but for what it is I think this is pretty solid, I usually go really in depth with all my gripes, but there wasn't a whole lot that bothered me here. I'm yet to play Ashina, and feel kind of like I should've played that first to better understand the story and it's connections, I've been going through Stranga games semi-chronologically, saw "My big sister" was up next and decided to go with the remaster instead of the original, and it makes me wonder if the original had quite as many references or was as tied into Ashina, I feel like if it is that could be pretty confusing, I went into this aware of Ashina, and assumed "oh I might be missing some info that'd tie things together better", but not everyone will be aware of that, so I'm sure some people may feel more unhappy with this game, and I think that's a fair enough response. I enjoyed it for what it is, and I think this is pretty decent value, fairly short, maybe get it on a sale, but it's alright.