Unforeseen Incidents

[b]Funny, exciting, and nicely puzzling.[/b] I had a really great time accompanying the likeable everyman Harper - who is equipped with an iconic multitool - on his adventure. The characters are convincing, the story is engaging, and the game world is so beautifully drawn - exploring it feels so rewarding. The atmosphere is just unique. Best point-and-click adventure in my collection.

Overall, I had a good time with this game. It did a lot of things I liked! I loved a lot of the characters, the voice acting, the art, and small, personal moments in the story. A few small things that bothered me: - There was a bug where ~40% of the time, the first line of dialogue in a conversation wouldn't play the voice line. - Without getting into spoilers, there are a few very large plot things that happen to the main character that are a bit glossed over in his reactions to them and mood of the game onwards. I get that it would have really tanked the tone of the game to have him react more realistically, but the writing did make him feel flippant and unreal to me. - The plot can be a bit reliant on twists to bridge the sections it wants to explore.

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i'm working through it bit by bit, no hints no guide no nothing, and I find it very enjoyable so far. It's not necessarily easy and you may get stuck at times but not for too long. And the story is very intruiging, the game doesn't info-dump on you - so there's a real sense of mystery and of wanting to discover what's going on.

Unfortunately the game seems to be quite buggy. In the first chapter the game corrupted the save file, so that you can not interact with the mouse again and are stuck in the current view of the level. Since there are no frequent auto-saves basically an hour of playtime is lost, which does not make me want to continue the game.

Das Spiel ist die perfekte Schwurblervorlage. Bloß gut, dass es vor Corona rausgekommen ist. Trotzdem ein gutes Spiel mit angenehmer Musik und einem etwas langweiligen Protagonisten.

Very, very good modern adventure game, but not quite great. Definitely worth playing, if only for the literal LOL quips - the writing is fantastic, as is the voice acting, which is very unusual coming from a German (or any non-native English speaking) dev. The graphic style and art is IMO stunning - every scene I came onto, I just sat there for a second, looking around and enjoying the incredible style. Animation gets a C-, but who cares when its drawn so beautifully. Technically, the animation is the only ding I have against this excellent game, and from a story/adventure/game design POV, it maybe was a little long in the tooth, and I was even hoping I was close to the end at probably around the 75% mark. Not because it wasn't good, but maybe a little too much Fedexing and back and forth and re-treading here, even acknowledging that that is kind of core to most adventure games - a bit much in this title. Still, absolutely worth a purchase, and kudos to the devs, especially for the writing and voice acting, Both of those are 10/10. One other minor point: if you have a very (ultra?) widescreen monitor, you will need to fiddle a bit with the settings (hold down the ALT key when you start the game, and a popup will appear to let you pick a wide range of options that aren't available in the game's settings). Not sure if ultra widescreen was even a thing when this game was made, so I don't ding them for this.