Elroy and the Aliens

I really enjoyed it . Nice point and click with nice puzzles and humor. Great music and art style. Story was nice but it was a short game. Wish it was bigger!

Overall a fun point & click adventure with far more good than bad. In fact the only two "bad" things I can think of are probably related to my personal taste more than the game. I had a lengthy motivation dip right around chapter 6-7, when the characters [spoiler]left Earth and I found the Diego section to be utterly boring[/spoiler] and it took me many, many weeks to bring myself to spend time to overcome this and move on. Luckily the chapter afterwards was back to the quality of the first half. The second thing I did not like was the rather abruptness of the finale (happens far too often with P&C adventures) and the fact that there are different endings that do not foreshadow what their consequences are. I am happy with my choice (the first of three), but had I gone the opposite route I would have been majorly pissed at the history rewriting that would have occurred then (saw the ending on YT). Not a fan of bait-and-switch endings that undo all of the game, essentially, so here is a fair warning to anyone who also does not like those: do NOT push the mayor. But I do not want to dwell on the two negatives, since everything else was really, really good. The characters were great overall and the voice acting was fantastic. I especially enjoyed the attention to detail with the animations, where it feels like the developers made an effort to lip sync the 2D animations of the mouths to whatever is being said. Maybe that's modern game development tools or an animator that really loves their work (or it is all in my head), but regardless, I really enjoyed that. I wish they would have put that much attention to detail into the overall character animations as well, who are sadly just mirrored whenever they switch directions (especially noticeable on non-symmetric characters like Zeke). The plot was good and tied up all its knots in the end, which is a plus, even if the ending was a little abrupt and short, as previously mentioned. But maybe there is room for a sequel of some sort, which explores and expands the characters and their relations a bit further, who knows. The puzzles and mini games were pretty much perfect for my skill set (which is admittedly not that high due to a lack of patience), so only high marks for that part from me. The music was fine for the most part. However, a particular song at the end (the staircase) lifted the whole experience up a level or two, both because it set the mood for a dramatic character interaction and also because it stood out. In this scene, the music switched from background to foreground and that elevated both the scene and the game overall. If anything, at that point I realized what the developers are capable of and wished that maybe they shows this more often: letting the music and only a few words tell a story instead of characters telling (and re-telling) what's happening. In the end, I think this is a high quality modern point & click adventure and I am interested in future works by the developer.