Paperbark

Toccante

Wombats!

Paperbark is a short little story about a wombat, living in the aussie outback. Gotta admit I wasn’t expecting the bushfire part.. and there were a few glitches around the bird seed part where I had to restart that chapter, but overall it was a cute little story with (what I think to be) a bittersweet ending. :)

Paperbark is essentially a walking simulator where you play as a wombat. Cute concept, and it tells a nice story. It ran kind of bad on my PC, I don't know why, I've managed to play much bigger, graphic heavy games without issues but this ran quite poorly. I wanted to 100% it and it's kindaaa tedious, and the fog/whiteout around your character is really annoying. I know it's part of the aesthetic, but man. Please. The controls are also quite annoying at times, and if you accidentally click too close to a log or flowers the wombat will spend fifty years finishing eating/breaking it before you can move on. You can't backtrack from it. Most of this is just small stuff, and it's mostly the fact that it's not my type of game. It's cute, I'm glad i experienced it, but not for me, not again LOL. I won't recommend it, but I do realize this has to do with taste, mostly. A lot of you will find this game perfect and love what it has to offer. It is not a bad game necessarily, just not for me.

A very short charming story of a wombats journey to find shelter in a very authentic Australian bush with a hand drawn feel. While short and very linear, there is still some collectables, achievements and trading cards to keep the collectors happy. Played on handheld with a touchscreen without issues. Glad to have found this bite sized piece of Aussie culture.

Un walking sim avec un wombat. Le jeu a une identité bien définie avec sa DA en aquarelle. Tout est fait pour être relaxant, de la narration (VOST) au gameplay en passant par le sound design et l'histoire. C'est sans doute un excellent jeu pour de jeunes enfants, mais ça reste tout à fait agréable en tant qu'adulte. L'histoire est assez courte, j'ai mis 2h pour le faire à 100% avec les succès.