The Norwood Suite

I'm working through Cosmo D's games now, after hearing all the high praise for them for years, and while they're novel to a degree, I just don't think they're really *that* good. The music is great, and the neon environments are cool, but the story for The Norwood Suite (I've only played this and Off-Peak so far) is pretty contrived and not compellingly told. The characters you encounter are pretty stock "videogamey" characters, mainly serving to give you fetch quests - seeing all of the reviews going on and on about the excellent writing really makes me feel like I missed something. I appreciate that the developer is trying to do something different, and it isn't bad per se, but the critical fawning over a pretty basic narrative seems bizarre.

A small indie game witha great story that allows you to piece together the narrative as it unfolds. I was a bit put off when I installed it and ran into issues as it crashed at launch time. A few months later, I revisited and looked up on solving the problem. Though it did launch, it still crashed mid game and the only way to fix that was to turn off my Internet connection! Anyways, I liked the way music was used for dialogue instead of actual speech and how characters respond to you when prompted. The player character doesn't respond but it wasn't breaking the experience. You will not complete some of the objectives as described, but that is part of the gameplay and it is fine. There's exploration (though slow) and revelations from conversations between the NPCs. This appears to be a continuation to the game "Off Peak" by the same developer (though I haven't played it yet). There are hints laid out throughout the game and you can miss them if you don't pay enough attention. - 8/10

reminds me of some of my stranger dreams.

Beautiful

super fun little adventure game, again great music and atmosphere

No idea what I've just played lol.. but I gues it was.. fun?