Spirit of Midnight: Prologue

Unspeakably cute. Sweet, goofy humor, lots of good woodland creatures, and rogueish behavior from our main cat character. Cannot wait for the full game. One technical issue for me (playing using the keyboard on a MacBookPro with an M1 chip) was that when side-scrolling through my items, the selector went by too fast, so it was hard to move from one item to the next item. Often it would jump to the second or third item and I'd have to zoom back and forth until my desired item got highlighted.

5/10 An adventure game with cute animals. Good: - the gfx, though rather simple, look adorable. If you are a cat person like me, this is a treat - humorous story - music fits the game well and builds the mood - I like how the game works fine without any voice-overs, but the funny sound effects replace the speech sounds of animals So-so: - as in many point-and-click adventure games, you essentially just walk around 2D scenes, pick up objects, combine some of these objects into other objects, and then use objects in some places to progress the story. It's rather basic gameplay, and here it's even simpler because there is no "use" command Bad: - no mouse support. Instead, this game is designed for controllers. Keyboard controls are kinda tolerable but still take much of the fun out. Actually, these adventure games are far more suited for the mouse rather than for arrow keys. It would be far easier to just drag items around or click on a spot to order the character to move there, rather than fiddle with clumsy keys. I'm not sure if the devs will want to essentially re-work the entire control scheme for the mouse. Anyways, if not this, I'd give the game a 7/10. But as it is, it's only a 5/10. - when scrolling between items in the inventory, it seems the game checks if the key is down, not for key presses. So, often you "overshoot" and scroll 2 or 3 slots by pressing once. This problem would never happen if the UI was mouse-based Overall, it's a nice game if you're going to play it with a controller. But if you don't have one or don't want to use one, it's rather a pass. Still giving an upvote since there is no "neutral" vote allowed. [table][tr][th][i]I'm a Steam curator, you can [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43946907-Friendly-Nerd/]follow me[/url][/i][/th][/tr][/table]