There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings

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It's really hard to decide whether to recommend or not. For me, the feedback should lie between like and dislike but we only have two choices here, so not recommended I'd say, not meaning that it is a bad game. Cons: - For unknown reason, the game doesn't like my computer system. Strange characters appear from time to time in the text, ruining the understanding of the conversation and even worse, the immersion. Most likely a literal encoding problem. - The lines in blue are hard to read. - Can't skip the lines already read and can't save at will. I'm thus forced to read the same text again and again (especially when struggling to find the hidden ending). - Too few interactable objects - I gave this a try because most of the reviews mentioned a good writing. This gave me an extremely high expectation. But the more I re-read the plot (when collecting different endings), the more I felt that it's not as good as praised. Certain explanations of the background settings are left out of sight on purpose, making this town a man-made stage scenery rather than a believable place one can imagine living in. The message is straightforward, not leaving many aftertastes. Pros: - Unique atmosphere and art style - Replayablility despite the simple outline - The script is not really bad for a VN (don't think this is a real RPG game though). There are some memorable paragraphs. The path of drat gave me much pain. It didn't take really long time to figure out the answers to the four questions ([spoiler]just be a bad guy and you get it [/spoiler]). But I didn't expect it to come after the endings. I got so confused when the normal best ending and credits rolled that I doubted I missed something before. I quit and loaded the former save to check if I neglected a certain secret path. Of course, there was nothing to be missed and I ended up going through the same story again. That partly explains the 7-hour duration. As for the special ending itself, I can't say I fully get the gist, but it's weirdly hilarious, that's all. I don't have any proper word to describe it but it's still worth seeing, probably because it's the most unexpected part of the game.

I love that a game about slowly creeping despair can can feel like such a sweet, touching experience by the end. If anything about this short narrative horror game sounds appealing, give it a few hours of your time.

Slow, then fast. Feels like water filling up a bathtub, but your nose is stuck beneath the rim.

i played this with my girlfriend late as ♥♥♥♥ at night and it was incredible for multiple reasons absolutely incredible

Absolutely haunting

Short little hidden gem of an existential horror game. Love in the time of climate crisis.