On the Peril of Parrots

An interesting little experiment with a great concept and decent execution. The puzzles are overall fun and addictive, and the narrative is presented in an interesting way. Some notes: -The 'debug' concept was really cool and I wish it had been expanded on somehow or found a pace in the story. -I generally liked the design philosophy of not explaining mechanics and letting the player experiment to figure them out. -A couple of the puzzles seemed logically impossible to complete for me? I could just be very stupid but I thought I understood the game's mechanics quite well by the time I encountered them, and they just didn't look possible based on what I knew so I skipped them. -The final achievement is bugged which is just a bit irritating, myself and apparently a couple others in the Steam forums have not found a way to unlock it. I played on Steam Deck if that helps.

Puzzles pretty easy, repetitive by the end; less than an hour of play time to reach the end. Last achievement was bugged and did not award.

I think the game has an interesting mechanic, you can choose to solve the puzzles or skip them entirely. In the end, winning the game is mainly about cheesing the scores. If you wanted to, you could complete the game in less than 10 minutes, even with solving most of the puzzles I barely got to an hour of gameplay (and that included playing the last chapter twice). I don't really think that the game is worth the pricepoint of 10 bucks. I got it on humble for way cheaper and still don't feel like i got my money's worth.

Reminisce of the snakes game on the old school nokia phone but with no time limit and a few twists to change things up. Paired with a cool jazz soundtrack, makes for a decent patient puzzle game to kill time with. Also cookies