Beacon Pines

If your here for a great story, this is a good story. You might enjoy yourself even if you find yourself having to skip around depending on what had to be done. However, if your here for the "mystery," to solve fun and potentially lenient riddles and puzzles, stop. There's illusion of choice, and seems all efforts were spent on making this game look good, and it does look good. These "charms" range from literally meaningless to the point of you can complete the game without having them and vitally important required to proceed through the story, which most if not all of these are acquired through just playing the game. When i got "HUM" i rolled my eyes, then i exclaimed "WHY AM I HERE!!??" Knowing i'm playing what is effectively a "finished product" it made me wish there was a way i could had been part of such a games development and ensure it had that quality about it. But that's if they valued the game providing a mystery to solve instead of the Ren'Py like experience this game is. And despite the jumping round, it's designed so you never know too much more than a different reality. There's a few characters you basically never meet. One of them is Natt. You'll see what i mean should you decide to play through this. Can someone please make the dumpster and the fireplace make sense. i don't care if this is an unincorporated area, if this world is a developed world, we have no idea if it's a constitutional capitalist republic, which it appears to imply it is. Or communism. Which it acts like it's not. And the "old" area feels like it's way too close to only ever access through zip line or access tunnel. i'm not even questioning how they managed to move the entire town, But most of all, i'm disappointed in what seems to be the "true" ending. This is not satisfying, there are loose ends, and we have access to everything to tie up those loose ends. What's with the weird tree placement at the end? Why? For a farm town, i never saw any farmland. And what is Mrs. Hartford jarring? There was a point i thought our parent was going to be part of the opposition, the one in charge..... Where is she getting whatever she's jarring so much of? Thank you for reading my review, i wasn't expecting anything like CLUE, i was tempted to list all the "charms" you can just never use as you progress. Still debating on which "charm" acquisition made me the most angry, "Flight," "Hum," "Malice," or "Sly."