Sunlight

I really wanted to like this, but I can't say that I do. For the positives, the visuals are absolutely stunning! They knocked it out of the ballpark in that regard. I like Tchaikovsky but the music doesn't have enough variety to be enjoyable, its a short section of music repeated for half an hour. I can't call myself much of a poet, so I won't heavily comment on it. But the poetry isn't good enough to justify playing the game. This is what could've been a fine short film, but instead they layered a mundane, cumbersome veneer of gameplay on top. To progress and unpause the dialogue you must move towards and collect shining flowers, but since the players' moving speed is so agonisingly slow, it takes around [b]30 seconds[/b] to reach a flower— its a simple goal made needlessly dissatisfying! They're always so close, yet just out of reach. The constant shifting narrators is a novel idea, and certainly very unique. But it doesn't work out to be relaxing in the sense that the game presented itself to be at the beginning. The change in narration is one of the elements that makes the game stand out, but I think the game would've been far better without it. The game lets you write a sentence to name your bouquet of flowers/the sad remaining stump of a tree. You can write whatever you want so I wrote "poopoo". That was a nice reward for getting through the game. Unfortunately I must say that I appreciated the lovely store page preview images more than the full game.

Don't play it while stoned.

Sunlight to nietypowa, około 30-minutowa gra eksploracyjna, która bardziej przypomina interaktywne doświadczenie artystyczne niż klasyczną grę. W grze wędrujemy przez ręcznie malowany las oraz słuchamy szeptów drzew opowiadających filozoficzną historię. Na wyróżnienie zasługuje wspaniała ścieżka dźwiękowa. Przez brak tradycyjnej rozgrywki i wyzwań może nie przypaść do gustu każdemu, ale ta produkcja chyba nie miała być grą w tradycyjnym tego słowa znaczeniu. Na minus dodam, że las jest bardzo monotonny, oraz zbierane przez nas kwiaty podczas rozgrywki glitchują się. Podsumowując, nie jest to produkcja dla każdego.

unfortunately the voices were jarring and yet unengaging, along with the gameplay and graphical glitches

This game makes me think... does a bush count as a mini tree? who knows, those are the questions of life we can never be sure about. does this count as a video game? I don't know, but what I do know is that the story might have hit harder if the game, which is incredibly slow, didn't glitch out on me and never actually got to the end lmfao. game or not, it is an experience, and I didn't hate it. I was even liking it, until I realized I would have to replay it to actually finish it, lol. In times like this, I really need steam to create an EH button. I think it's a bit existential for people with crazy anxiety, so I don't think I'd recommend it to help those kind of folks with relaxation.

MALARDO

Some trees narrate a story about some sort of psychedelic trip. Not very interesting. No gameplay. Did not finish.