The Mermaid Mask

很喜欢Grimoire和Sally组合的这两作，非常迷人、出色的画风，每个角色的台词设计和配音也如此契合。 玩这系列特别像来了场舒适的心灵按摩，那种感受大概就是本作里说的——一次“和神秘主义的擦肩而过”。 请一定要有下一作啊 I humbly implore you.

A splendid use of female property and labour: fully funding one incel loser’s search for Mermaid Mummy and his revenge on the man who got the woman, the adventure and the legend. The inn came from Felicia. The deeds came from Felicia. The key came from Felicia. The submarine came from Sinthia’s mother. Gripp's magnificent personal contribution appears to consist of some engineering, fraud, murder, and a heroic quantity of self-pity. You guessed it: he ends up with the mummy, as the one man in all humanity apparently worthy of being chosen, plus some of the most lavish scenes this game’s scale can provide, lovingly supplied by his developer bros. It is genuinely impossible to imagine who could Gripp possibly be a projection of? There are simply no clues. Very subtle. Over a decade ago, the same creator made a mermaid-and-cauldron comic where the women were allowed to speak, act, make decisions and help one another. Apparently artistic development has since transformed them into dead girlfriends, stolen property, emotional support staff and enormous silent prizes for miserable men. Progress, one supposes. Most of the characters—and, apparently, the entire very white creative team behind them—eventually agree that the Black girl is the one person who simply cannot be allowed to keep her power. This is all for her own good, naturally. A touching little exercise in community-led disenfranchisement. The developers also periodically remind us how difficult the whole thing was to make, as if producing a paid commercial product were a personal favour to the audience. One might have assumed the purchase price covered the labour. Apparently the customer was also expected to provide emotional support. Perhaps the creators should return to a few private playthroughs of Indiana Jones and Mafia, where they can imagine themselves as the alpha in peace and stop asking women to finance, mother, inspire, console and spiritually reward every male crisis. Or, better yet, simply stop making the next one. Anyway, lovely art, excellent voice acting, charming puzzles. Narratively, it feels like someone accidentally left his private Chad grievance journal in the game files.

This game is so lovingly crafted, so beautifully polished, and so cleverly structured. I have been following this team since they released Detective Grimoire and seeing the developers hone their style is such a great feeling. The final sequence had me enthralled the whole way through and it was striking how this game somehow managed to balance wacky and lighthearted moments with some of its darker themes. I could not suggest this game more and if you end up enjoying this I implore you to check out their other games.

Loving this. What a great entry for this series. The voice acting! The characters and environments and mysteries ... there are so many little moments in the dialogue that made me laugh out loud to myself. Amazing work.

As a big fan of Tangle Tower, I was really excited to play The Mermaid Mask, and it did not disappoint. Everything about this game - the story, atmosphere, voice acting, animations, artwork, music - is on point. The puzzles are engaging and some a little challenging, but very fun to do! And the humor is excellent. Plus, I feel like this game leaned more into the creepiness, which I loved. They say how hard it is to make a sequel to a beloved game, and that they only hope it stands up to the original. And the thing is, I think they more than accomplished it! This feels like an incredible sequel that only builds on what was given to us in Tangle Tower, if not made to be even better. I mean, my playtime in this game is pretty much double what it took to 100% Tangle Tower. Plus, the story is so good! I was hooked until the very end, and everything also pieced together like a perfect puzzle. I am very impressed and can see myself playing it again later. I'm really hoping SFB makes more games in this series so we can continue to get cozy, fun, and highly atmospheric murder mysteries!

Really, really enjoyable. SFB has clearly found their winning formula, now I'm just hoping there's less time between MM and a new release than their was between MM and Tangle Tower. Speaking of, I might be in the minority of people that actually enjoyed Tangle Tower more - I thought the shorter length made it feel a lot more dense and I enjoyed the premise as well as late-game reveals more. That said, it's not an indictment against MM - the steak is juicy and the lobster is buttery

I really liked playing this game. The writing is wonderful, the art is great and the mystery is intriguing. I had a lot of fun investigating and love how much there is to discover. Also the voice acting is fabulous, the humour is fitting, the characters are fantastic, the gameplay feels fresh and I could go on and on. I feel like there was a lot of love poured into making this game. I hope the people behind it can continue working on a sequel if they want to. And it's also great for playing together!

Se você gostou de Tangle Tower, esse jogo é mais do que recomendado <3