The Doll's Window

the game is fair for a free game i would give it a meh, but like other commentors said: bad "puzzles" and cheap deaths

[h1]Before I played The Doll's Window, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

i liked this game very much, at some points it was very difficult and i kinda got stuck but it still was worth the time

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Игра "The Doll's Window" - это жуткое и атмосферное погружение в личный кошмар. С первых минут меня зацепила тревожная музыка и визуальный стиль, напоминающий старые кукольные мультфильмы, но с изрядной порцией хоррора. Сюжет, подающийся через обрывки воспоминаний и загадочные записки, заставляет постоянно гадать, что же на самом деле происходит. Особенно хочется отметить дизайн уровней. Каждый уголок зловещего дома полон деталей, намекающих на трагедию, случившуюся здесь. Головоломки, хоть и не самые сложные, органично вплетены в повествование и добавляют напряжения. Сама кукла-антагонист – действительно пугающий образ, вызывающий мурашки при каждом появлении. В игре практически нет скримеров, основной упор сделан на психологический хоррор и нарастающее чувство страха. "The Doll's Window" – это не просто игра, это интерактивная история, которая оставляет после себя долгое послевкусие. Рекомендую всем любителям атмосферных хорроров, которые ценят не только напугать, но и заставить задуматься.

I'll say it like this: as other comments said, this game does feel a lot like Ib (so much so that I'm pretty sure it even uses the same font), but that is not a bad thing in itself. The art is good (in a way cute, at least in my opinion), and I'm sure the story wasn't all that bad, even though I never experienced it fully. And that's because this game lacks a sense of purpose. The story feels fragmented - as if it were a complete story, but then someone rearranged the events and loosely put them together so you're not weirded out. Maybe that's where all parallels to Ib come to light the most - it does feel like a copied and rearranged plot from Ib. It also doesn't give the player any goals. Why are we going to the circus in the first place? Why is it different or weird enough for us to sneak backstage? Why are we trying to help Elma (as, if I remember correctly, we said we came here to do)? It felt like the backstory wasn't properly laid out for the player to care about moving forward. Other, easier-to-fix complaints would be that sometimes it's not clear that there are doors you can walk through (sometimes I wouldn't notice a passage because it just looked like a wall, not a door), and the protagonist walks too slowly, especially compared to how fast some enemies are. And as other people have already mentioned, the puzzles can be confusing, or they don't seem like puzzles at all. The puzzle guide also feels a bit vague at times. Overall, just stick to playing Ib, even the 2012 version will do. Very similar concept, far better execution.

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