Rusty Lake Paradise

Мне понравилось всё: от загадок и визуала до сюжета, но было ощущение, что некоторые локации пустоватые по механике, из-за чего скучновато

это просто ахуенно!

Honestly, what a pretentious sh1tshow. The stupidly primitive story is paraded around with such pompousness like it's The Holy Bible. For most of the puzzles you don't even need to wake up. They are based on just the visual perception and can be solved intuitively, mechanically, no mental model required. And if SOMEHOW you don't see the solution right away, you literally can just click through almost all of them. As for the vibes, oh boy, so this is gonna be entirely subjective. For illustrative purposes, I'll tell about one of the few moments I remember from the gameplay: it was like the middle of the game, I walk in, I see some animal like a cow or a goat, I sigh, roll my eyes and start looking for a knife, a machete or an axe, because I already, mind you, just from seeing an animal, understand that it's gonna be either bloodletting, decapitation, killing or mutilation. And what do you know, turns out I in fact needed a knife to carve pieces of meat from their sides in order to make a burger to make some man puke or defecate. So, do you know how some people say they love arthouse, but in reality they mean just degenerate and repulsive content which gets attention solely because of its repulsiveness and shock value? And how when people validly point out that this is just lazy trash, some fart smella director gets defensive and talks about how these people can't face the reality and the ugliness of human nature? Yeah, so this game is not that, but it's same mud, same blood. To those who need to hear it: degeneracy doesn't give content any merit and it doesn't make anything good or interesting. If you search for "obscure", "transgressive", "unconventional", "chthonic", "left-hand path", "grotesque", "taboo", "disturbing", "macabre", "desacralization", believe me, even though I don't know you, I wish the best for you, and because of that I'll be the one to tell you: there's about a 90% probability that you do not have a taste. There are really great works of art that happen to be transgressive, but that's not what makes them great. You can very well enjoy this game for its formally existent puzzles and plot, its simple but charming, ambient and dream-like music / art style, whatever. But if you enjoy this game because it's "dark", now, that's the situation I'm talking about. First, face the fact that this is not a real taste in art. Then, Idk, you should probably call or visit your parents if that's possible, talk to them, spend time with them, ideally do something together like gardening, fishing or whatever, TRY TO MAKE PEACE. Find a core friend group, spend some quality time with them too, fool around, go on an adventure, get in trouble that will become a funny in-story for generations of episodical friends to come. Be in a safe relationship. Basically that's it, you can hate me now, but you'll be scoffing at "transgressive" in no time! Oh, and that cheap leeching off alchemy-core, yeah, bleh...