Animal Well

I don't consider this game bad, not at all. I am sure there are people who can have a lot of fun with it, and in the beginning I did too. However, especially towards the end I found it significantly too tidious and I found myself only playing for the completion, not the fun. The big issues with Animal Well, for me, are that it doesn't unlock enough shortcuts after solving a puzzle or an area. It doesn't unlock *no* shortcuts, but it doesn't unlock enough. For a lot of rooms, in order to traverse them, you have to do their puzzle again and again every time you want to go through. add to that that a lot of puzzles consist of instantly killing you and respawning you at the last checkpoint, or that you have to jump from small plattform to small platform, sometimes even small moving plattforms on anohter screen, with a fall bringing you several rooms back. Those really make the end game or post game excrutiatingly annyoing. Some puzzles essentially require you to go through every single room of the map to search for specific details in the background, and that would be a cool puzzle, but when traversal is such a slugfest, it really just isn't enjoyable. Essentially I'd say the main game is fun and was really cute. The atmosphere is astonishing. But the post game is painful and leaving a game like this uncompleted also feels awful.