Lucid Dream Adventure

This game could have been great but it is brought down by execution problems. The overall story is so-so, but a good jumping off points for weird world building. The visuals are pretty amazing and most of the puzzles are fun and satisfying. But the game makes the weird choice of only letting you interact with objects once you're close enough (brings the old Sierra "You're not close enough." bit to mind), and it's sometimes very finicky about hotspots. So I spent a fair bit of time pixel hunting. Also, the inventory bar on top of the screen never closed for me, and it covered up a lot of that beautiful art and also sometimes key puzzle elements. The ending is also very abrupt. I honestly thought the game had crashed or something. The English version of the dialogue is a bit stilted. Overall, I recommend this game as kind of a sleeper hit, particularly at that price point. But I really wish it were more polished. I hope the devs will make a new game in the future.

I enjoyed this puzzling adventure even though I couldn't figure out about half the puzzles without help. The storyline is good with interesting characters along the way, Alice in Wonderland style. I liked the dialog with everyone. The artwork and atmosphere is extraordinary. There is an inventory bar at the top that cannot be removed which ruins it though. It blocks off the whole top part of the screen. It used to scroll up and down, like in the Demo. Music is perfect. Matches the scenes with precision and never gets in the way. Normally, I turn off music, but this is one I left on the whole time. There are bugs in the game that prevented me from continuing. But, you can always restart that level and try again. I did complete the game using that feature. I'm going to play it again and hopefully do a better job with the puzzles. There's a few I still don't get. Usually, the problem was, I didn't see something that was on the screen to pick up or I didn't understand the mechanics. Most of the game is puzzles, but the story also is captivating and worthwhile. Appreciate the work that went into this game.

I've tried playing this from MULTIPLE computers and mobile. While the story is absolutely beautiful along with visuals it has a horrid habit of crashing and/or not loading CRITICAL assets needed to move forward in the story. Especially early on. I would recommend this if I could beat the game without it crashing on me, sadly something that won't happen. Please fix this issue of the game crashing randomly. I'm making note this because it's crashing even on a high end pc.

Didn't expect this to be my first game with complete 100% achievements. Either way... despite everything, I do reccoment this game. Kind of. I almost love it. I didn't buy Fran Bow because I know the story by heart and I needed something that actually would be interesting to play than reread text that I can quote with closed eyes. And this game did its job pretty well. It is a very, very good game and can hook you in for hours. It was very fun and interesting to play it, I feel bad that this game ended, despite that on some levels the puzzles were more on the harder side, but I am glad that there are hints here and there. Though I was quite annoyed that when I needed a hint the most it was imply unavaliable! Plus the planet and the clock level were terribly annoying. Speaking of the game ending, I think it was almost rushed or unfinished, you go through a whole game for the sake of... what? A simple one minute ending where everything is fine and everyone are happy? Either it had to be longer or genuinely returning the father would have had been better choice. Also the game is mostly interesing in the beginning. The first levels are great in colour and in puzzles and everything is super interesting, later... it is less interesting when it comes to the world and puzzles and is just focused on the story, which I don't exactly like but I reccomend the game only because of the first levels. And speaking of the story, there is a part where Gods give us tasks or challenges, forgot what it was... either way, after the first task ends... there isn't a word about the gods? Where are the new ones? They didn't come up to say did we do a good or bad job, the game just keeps going on as if there never were any Gods or anything of such kind or realm. Also I didn't appreaciate the easter eggs or whatever it was it, of old art, religion and famous people, some of it is almost insulting, for this I do want to write a negative review, but I guess I'll close my eye on it just because there aren't many games like Fran Bow. Just because of it.

A challenging puzzler with beautiful art work.

the indie

I liked the game. That is all.