Tourist Trap

Alright. Tourist Trap is done and dusted. This was a short point & click adventure, weighing in at just over two hours. It was a very polished game and was quite enjoyable overall. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3144893052 First off, the art direction was stellar. You can really tell that the developers poured a lot of love into the graphics and the set pieces. The lush colors really pop and everything seems so vibrant and alive. The detail is top notch. Everything really looks exactly like it should, and nothing was sloppy or just slapped together. This was very impressive. What’s funny is that, as beautiful as the vacation town presented in the game is, there is an underlying sinister aspect to everything. The story is really about losing your identity and culture to corporate greed, obviously in exaggerated fashion, but some of the dialogue really drives this point home. The dialogue at times talks about having to learn the tourist’s language to satisfy their entitlement and losing some of their culture to satisfy the needs of said tourists. This is really illustrated from the very beginning of the game and throughout. I think it’s interesting how, no matter where you’re from, the thought that visitors should really be learning your language and culture rather than bringing theirs with them, is a shared ideology. Which does not travel well apparently, lol. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3144892680 Everybody in the game speaks in “blah blah blahs” with inflections to carry emotion and urgency. I thought I was going to be annoyed by this, but actually, it was pretty amusing throughout. If the game was longer, IDK, but as is, it made me chuckle repeatedly. There are of course subtitles so you know what’s actually going on. The story was both fun and approachable, and shockingly dark. Shocking because the presentation is somewhat deceptive. In a good way. There were many misspellings in the game, and a quick re-edit of the script wouldn’t be a terrible use of post release support time. Gameplay-wise, the puzzles in this game actually made sense, and as a result, trial and error was kept to a minimum. The only one that was moderately challenging was realizing that the thing you’d been looking at in one of the stores was actually the skateboard you needed to finish one specific puzzle. Otherwise, the typical PnC puzzle logic was thankfully absent. I played this game on the Steam Deck, and it worked just fine. I mostly used the touchscreen outside of utilizing the Y button to bring up the inventory. You can finish the game on a single battery charge. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3144892810 All told, the story and graphics really make the cost vs value at retail price acceptable. $10 for this level of detail is appropriate. I’d say it’s definitely worth a look if you’re a point and click fan. [code]If you found this review helpful and would be interested in supporting my Curator group, Robilar's Reviews, it would be appreciated. Cheers. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32549618/[/code] [code]Also follow IndieGems for more reviews like this one. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/[/code]