Wandersong

The Review: This game is great. I love the art, sounds, and music of the whole thing and it played very well overall. Despite it's 'age' it still holds up very well to many modern releases and is a game I can highly recommend. The morals this story lives by are genuinely heart warming and I would be lying if I said I didn't cry at the end. All in all, this is a phenomenal game with a great message and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a feel good experience that WILL call all of us only-shows-happy-feelings people out because OH BOY was that whole conversation relatable!! I'm going to need a good shower-cry after this one xDD The Personal Experience: So, eight whole years after it's release date I finally learned this game existed. Well, that's sort of true- I had a friend recommend it to me a while back, bought it, and then let it sit in my Steam Library collecting dust. Today I was just pretty bored and looked through some of my unplayed games and stumbled across this one in the list. I completely forgot what it even looks like so I did what anyone would do and watched the trailer before going "whatevs" and downloading it to see what the "Overwhelmingly Positive" fuss was about. Oh boy. This game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing. That almost ten hours of playtime on record, yeah, that was one sitting because I could NOT put this game down (currently 1:24am at the time of me writing this because I needed to give this one a review). The story was just so well crafted and masterfully weaved in different story tropes in such a new and fresh way that it genuinely made me emotional at so many points. The characters are all really thought out and realistic and each has their own moral and personal motivations to what they're doing and AHHH I JUST LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH. By far the story of the Bard (who I lovingly named "Bard" because... bro's just a Bard) hit the closest to home. I deal a lot with imposter syndrome and a desire to be more than I think I ''deserve'' or ''can ever be'' that seeing the layers of their character being picked away just really reminded me of my own thought processes that seep in sometimes. The part that hit the hardest was the conversation about only really wanting to show the happy feelings. To get personal (not that I think anyone is even still reading this) I have a very cynical and pessimistic older brother and so I have always been seen as the "happy one". It's gotten to a point where the people around me almost get defensive or mad at me whenever I show any feeling that's not positive. Due to this I tend to just let those feelings linger on the inside and just keep being happy to now 'worry' the people around me. Now, getting called out by a game with "Comedy" as one of their tags was not something I was planning for going in so you can probably guess how shocked I was when the tears started rolling. Now, I say all this as a positive, it was actually able to put some of the feelings I've been having into better words than I can come up with so I genuinely have some unpacking to do (in a positive way- this game made me very happy overall, it was just shockingly relatable). Despite writing all that, the thing that hit the hardest was being able to ''talk'' to the developers after completing my playthrough. The way that the three of them gave thanks and pushed the idea that everyone should create really hit home for me and had me trying to keep my ugly-crying to a minimum as to not wake anyone who is currently asleep (again, it's 1:32 am now). The way those messages were written had so much heart put into them that I couldn't stay composed. Genuinely, thank you so much to the developers for including that area and just thank you for an amazing game. All in all, this game was firmly placed into my "GOAT" section of my Steam Library right next to Undertale/Deltarune, Portal 2, and Cult of the Lamb - and I swear I'm getting a tattoo of this game on my body in the future because this just hit DIFFERENT. My only complaint: I'm upset I didn't play this sooner.

This game is an indie masterpiece! I genuinely don't know where to start, this game hooked me right from the beginning and has since. While I haven't finished the game whilst writing this, I can say that I am positive that everyone should experience this game. For a game that came out I think 8 years ago? (correct me if wrong) the mechanics and graphics still hold up, the game performs wonderfully and all the little mini games are so fun. I love that you get to play as this little bard who is trying to figure out how to save the world, I am currently on act 4 and I love the twist in this story (of course I won't spoil anything), but I think from playing the perspective of the bard, some might resonate with his character. Cause although this game appears as a fun and colourful, silly little game, there is moments where you sit back and think "Damn he just like me fr", I think it is a wonderfully executed game and I can not wait to finish it. All in all, I would give this game a 8.5/10