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Annahvi

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A member registered Jun 20, 2016

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Just finished this game after about 3 days of sleuthing.

10/10 - Would recommend to anyone who enjoys logic puzzles and/or genealogy.

It was so much fun! The puzzles and clues are spread out just far enough so that connecting them is a challenge, but still close enough so the solutions don't feel too obtuse or abstract. Even seemingly little details and jokes turn out to be useful branches that provide plenty of useful information. Some of the final details such as last of kin or some of the non-blood relation's names come down to process of elimination, but it never feels like brute forcing it.

The tone itself is also wonderful, a mix of sarcastic humor and just a slight edge of suspense. Personally I got a bit creeped out whenever our mysterious client showed up and I loved that unease. It reminds me of the game "HER" if you've ever played it, with how creepy the mood gets as more dark secrets are revealed.

If I was forced to give this game any criticism, matching the faces for the family photos (especially Free Spirits) was a little daunting at first, but once you manage to match a couple of faces to names, it becomes a process of elimination. Also, maybe adding the option to turn off "slow loading internet"?

Funny tangent: I was absolutely stumped for a while because I thought I had the remaining branches solved but wasn't making any progress. I finally realized that I had correctly deduced that someone was president of the Roottree Company, but I picked the wrong number. Chalk that up to my own tunnel-vision rather than poor UI.


SPOILER



I immediately knew there was something up with the farmhand when I could take his picture from the photograph. I don't know if that final branch is supposed to be super difficult or just a bonus for those who have been paying attention, but between that and the one-off mention of "Mr. Miller", I had a feeling it was something to keep on the back-burner.

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First use the arrow glyph to turn the arrow that shows up, then connect the color it's pointing away from to the color it's pointing towards.

Maybe I'm just a bit slow, but I had to look up a walkthrough for the arcade.

Spoiler:

The way that the symbols show up made me think that I had to start at which color the arrow is pointing from and then turn to the color the arrow points to, rather than turning the arrow then using that to determine the colors. (Ex. Step 2, I started from green then thought I had to work to yellow).

Very frustrating.

What can I say? People enjoy a well-made game, regardless of politics associated with it.

Wait, is this just a couple of pictures rather than an actual game? Aw man...

It's a difficult but fun game, but I'd like to know: Does the Player ever have to move blocks from one puzzle to another, or can all of the puzzles be solved on their own?

Anyone else just looking at these comments and suddenly thinking of that GIF from Community? The one where Troy walks in with the pizza?

If you need any help with pixel art, I'd be more than happy to offer some help. This game has potential to be something really amazing and I'd love nothing more than to help reach that potential.

This was a wonderful little game! I could easily imagine a full-blown version of this game in the style of an RPG/Simulation. Similar to Stardew Valley.


Let me know if that sounds like something you'd like to try!