I was right on the edge of giving The Unfinished Swan a negative review, and i still think that its totaly reasonable to argue for it getting a negative review, but its still worth it. But get it on sale. (As of writing its on 75% sale, so get it now when you have the chance.) Anyways, the game is good, but not a masterpiece, withc i think "What Remains of Edith Finch", is. (If your not aware, "What Remains of Edith Finch" is giant sparrows other game, and you shoud try it before you try this one.) The story is neat, its not super inventive, but its obviesly in the style of a childrens story, and they are generly not super inventive, so i think its intensjonal. The ending is very good thoug. visualy its great, it has very unice grafics, very minimalist, with some pretty surreal arcitechture in the city chapter, withc both add to the storybook feel of the game. The music and sound design are good, but not amazing. I shoud also say that the reason i have 34.7 houers in this game is because i got this game when i was pretty young, and back then i did not have many games, so the ones i did have i replayed a lot. The gameplay is where its the weakest, as its mostly just a walking simulator and then there somtimes are areas where you push a lever, and then keep going, and the platforming is nothing special, just basic jumping from platform to platform. There is one area where you have to make your own platforms, and its pretty cool, but other then that its not mutch. "What Remains of Edith Finch" dous not have better gameplay, but that game has an amazing story, so it whoud just be annoying to have to do platforming and stuff like that, because the interesting part of the game whoud anyways be the story. I also read a review that sayed that he thoght that Giant Sparrow was originaly going to have more areas where it was completely white, and where you had to splash paint everywere to see anything, but then they realised that that whoud be a very annoying thing to do throug the whole game, so they instead made it so that you only have to do that in the first level, and in all the other levels you can see everything, you cant even splatter things in paint anymore, as the paint is swapped with water, withc avaporates almost imediatly. I do think they tryed to do a similar thing as the spatting of paint with the vines that you make spread with the water, but its not close to as fun as completely changing the color of an area. They even added a item that you can get by collecting ballons (Withc are collectebals in the game), that lets you shoot paint mutch faster, but its almost useless, because as i sayed, its only in the first level you actualy shoot paint, in the rest you shoot water.
