looK INside - Chapter 1

[h2] Overall: [/h2] It is not a bad game at all - I just personally didn't enjoy it. I did have issues with bugs & mechanics which decreased my "fun" and increased my "frustration" as I was playing. This is what tipped it from being neutral to no I don't want to play again (even though I did for achievements). I didn't feel engaged with the puzzles (due to bugs happening so I couldn't complete them) or the story (the characters I found most interesting weren't gone into in depth, instead the ones I was less interested in were the focus of the game). [b] Deeper dive into my experience is below. Review is spoiler free. [/b] [h3] Story wise: [/h3] [b] Story is fine, but feels incomplete at the end [/b] - [u] which makes sense as it's only Chapter 1 and you need to get the other games to continue the chapters [/u]. I didn't realise this when buying the game, so it's on me. I didn't end the game with a massive amount of curiosity for things that were hinted at so I probably won't get the next games. Most characters were interesting, but I struggled to connect story points/information together so was confused at times. [h3] Mechanics wise: [/h3] [b] Main issue with the mechanics I had was with volume/audio. Disclaimer: (?) I have sensory issues, so audio controls are really important for me to be able to play games. [/b] [u] Whenever you click something that you can't do anything with/is incompatible with something, there's a thud sound. [/u] I ended up having to play the game without headphones/volume because I couldn't tweak this sound and get rid of it with the volume sliders without turning all audio down to 0 as the volume controls were Main/Music/Voiceover and this seemed tied to the Main volume control. [b] An option to turn the thud off would've been really appreciated. [/b] There were a couple of bugs, which weren't game breaking but did stop me from getting achievements so I ended up looking up a guide and starting a new game to complete the achievements (which goes into my play time). I like games that let you have multiple saves. This game doesn't, which I only found an issue due to the bugs happening and restarting wipes all your progress. I didn't find the fact that the game doesn't have a "save" feature an issue as it appeared to complete auto-saves regularly so I didn't have problems when exiting and reloading the game (which I did multiple times for some bugs, like the game blocking you from placing "things" into/on "another thing").