Florence

Let's do this quickly because you can be done with this game in less than two hours. The game certainly wants to be done with you in less than two hours, so it's fair. Florence is a mixture of brilliant ludonarrative resonance and a car crash. The way it translates our titular Florence's state of mind and difficulties into small minimages of dwindling difficulty as she gains more confident and grows more comfortable is well worth a play through. The main story beats and the color palette, the way it evolves to echo her own development is super cool. And then it ends. The one thing happens and her life falls into place in a blink. Look, not even Unpacking took shortcuts to its gold of an ending. I found Florence's last sequence, that whole epiloguish thing, dishonest. For all the time it took to realistically develop its tangle of emotions, it somehow decided to throw it all out of the window in the most baffling and saccharine way. Actually, the more time passes, the more I dislike even thinking about it so yeah, it's a no from me unless on colossal discount and only because of how simply amazing were those minigames in relation to the good three quarters of the story. I get why it's popular, it's artsy in the best of ways, the art direction is incredibly well realized, the comic book transitions and style are consolidated with excellence, this could be a great art book to have, and the music selection was good too. But it hit me in the face like a truck, dude. I'm petty, and I don't forgive easily. For more reviews of games that are cute, or creepy, or both, please check my curator page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44079361/