Pizza Ghest

[h1] Walk around the room in search for required items. Visuals are nice and you might like it but gameplay feels kinda boring. After a while I had enough. Still it's not bad just not interesting enough. [/h1]

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Pizza Time. Story: You play as an unnamed character who wears a paper bag over his head. One day you're super hungry and decide to order pizza from a local business. Once the pizza arrives, the goth delivery girl asks you to sign over your soul so you get the pizza, as soon as you sign however the pizza is stolen and you embark on a journey to get it back. The story here is very loose, but I like it's wacky nature, however it's nothing that impressive either. There's some grammatical mistakes that make the dialogue hard to follow and the UI for the dialogue delivery is very messy and sometimes you can just skip out on things being said, however the dialogue boils down to just joke delivery instead of actual storytelling. Graphics: This is the thing that really caught my eye when I first saw Pizza Ghest. I loved the vibrant colors and the cartoon aesthetic and even in motion it looks very cool. I love everything about it, from the environments down to the character models who all look visually distinct. Also they the devs definitely knew what they were doing when designing the goth delivery chick so props for that. I think the only minor negative is that the environments do feel pretty barren. Especially the stairwell outside of your apartment. It's cramped and there's not much to look at, feels a bit like wasted potential, but I'm willing to excuse it considering that the more closed areas have stuff to see. Audio: The audio design is simply not good. There's nothing really all too bad with it, but the biggest problem is that there's so many sound effects that just play over each other and end up being super heavy on the ears, which is just annoying. This is especially annoying during the the stairwell sequence, where you get attacked. The music which there's very little of is probably the best part of the audio design. The final boss track is pretty decent and provides some fun thrash metal for you to rock out to while fighting, kind of makes me wish there was a little more music throughout the entire game. Gameplay: Pizza Ghest is more or less an adventure game, where you pick up items to solve light puzzles, with some very little combat thrown in there to spice up the mix. While I overall liked the game, I really didn't like the gameplay all too much as it feels a little too all over the place. I'll begin with the puzzle solving, which is probably the best aspect of the game. There's some simple puzzles which are pretty fun to solve. For example, the goth girl asks you to maker some food as she's hungry and you have to look around your apartment to whip up with while really simple is really fun. However the game feels a bit too janky even when doing simple stuff. So picking up items and using them feels very stiff and it feels like it works whenever it feels like it, which when paired with moments where you need to act fast to do something, it can really get tedious, but this is nothing compared to the combat. The combat boils down to picking up an item and chucking it into an enemy and it works whenever it feels like it. Picking up items is already really janky, imagine trying to do it while an enemy is right behind you and even if you manage to pick up an item to use, it can sometimes go through the enemy and deal no damage. This leads to one of the most annoying final boss fights I've ever had the pleasure of playing. It starts off simple enough, but very quickly the boss moves at such a fast pace that you can easily just miss your shots which leads into insane amounts of waiting until the window to strike opens up again. Verdict: Pizza Ghest is a charming game, but it's really rough around the edges. You got to love that janky feel to put up with some of it's questionable design and if you can't, there's really not much here, but for those who like that janky feel, you can find a fun and bizarre adventure. Final Rating: 6/10 Pros: + Great art style with plenty of vibrant colors + Character designs are awesome + Some fun light puzzles to solve Cons: - Gameplay is really rough - Combat works when it feels like it - Final Boss fight sucks If you liked this review please consider joining https://steamcommunity.com/groups/completingthebacklog