Servant of the Lake

Perfect

전작들의 매력을 그대로 이은 것까진 너무 좋은데 번역이 조금 아쉽네요. 네가를 너가라고 쓰다니... 몰입도가 조금 깨졌습니다.

A friend got me this game as a gift as I've played all the rusty lake games over the years, and I enjoyed it quite a bit! Compared to previous games, it was really interesting playing one with a much more direct storytelling and specific characters. And it may be illusory but it felt like some of the difficulty was upped a bit at least for some puzzles, and especially the post-game puzzle which I enjoyed immensely. It felt good exercising my mastery over the different scenarios and puzzle types to solve the cards. It was also a rare treat to have Kate be such an endearing character. I cared a lot about her by the end in a way that's a lot more personal than the usual distant impersonal perspective or sense of watching a tragedy that's already happened. Overall this game was unexpectedly different in flavor in a way that I think was a good shake-up of the formula. I wouldn't want every game to be the same but in this instance it was very refreshing. The thing I will note not as a negative but more of an observation, is that if you're new to the series, I wouldn't recommend starting with this game. It's written with characters and names and events in mind that are not explained in-game and lose their contextual impact without knowing a number of the past games. That, combined with the (at least to me) tricky puzzles and the knowledge of where the events happen in the larger story I think would leave new players feeling like they're missing something. Off the top of my head I'd recommend playing the Cube Escape series + the rusty lake Hotel, Paradise, and Roots games before this one. All that's to say that this game was really fun having followed the series for years, I love seeing how the devs experiment with their games, the characters were interesting to learn about, we stan Kate, and I'm excited to see where things go from here.