Recent reviews by Lille

Very fun and relaxing game. Not particularly difficult.
There is definitely cuteness overload. The sneezing mobs are adorable and I am so happy for Go and Dot!

I really wanted to like this game, but I was thoroughly disappointed.

Let's get the good part out of the way first:
The game is beautiful, the animations are great and the audio is impressive. It does a really great job at creating an atmosphere.

Sadly, about thirty minutes to an hour into playing the game, the magic of the atmosphere wears off and you are left with a game to complete, that starts to feel like a chore.

The gameplay is tedious and repetitive, combat is simplistic and repetitive and the puzzles are... Repetitive.

Your movement is extremely restricted and you can only follow very narrow paths. Whenever you think you might be off the beaten path and out exploring the wild Norse lands, you will turn a corner and there is the runestone that you click and get a short little story about Norse mythology, after which you will be forced to backtrack until you return to the regular path and can continue walking exactly in the footprints of every single other person playing the game.
The controls are made for console and feel needlessly restrictive, e.g. when you can only look up or down at a certain angle and sometimes you can climb a wall, other times you must complete puzzles to get to an area that is behind a foot-high log, that the developers have decided is beyond your skills to climb.

You kill the same 4 or 5 viking monsters 100+ times.
The combat is how I imagine a person with no gaming experience thinks Shadow of Mordor is like, after watching a friend play it for 10 minutes.
Again, the conversion from console to mouse and keyboard is hurting the game. Even though you have a mouse and this SHOULD allow you to quickly look at another enemy or even over your shoulder, everything is locked during combat and you need to click the next/previous target button to switch target and you must rely on the voices in your head whispering "behind you!" when an enemy attacks your back.
Mostly you will be pressing the same button combinations repeatedly until all the enemies are down.
Pro tip: lower the combat difficulty to easiest and get through the grind quicker. Combat is only in the game to delay you and it does not add anything but frustration. You will not earn XP, skills or new weapons or get any sense of accomplishment after killing hordes of vikings coming at you mostly one after the other over and over.

There are 4 or 5 different kinds of puzzles in this game, but there are probably close to 50 puzzles. Yes, that means you solve the same puzzle again and again and again.
These puzzles are not Myst-like puzzles either. The most common puzzle has you running around until red runes start flying around the screen and you must then look at the surroundings until you find something that resembles the shape of the currently flying rune. Congratulations, you have now solved a puzzle! Only two more to go. Then you may open the door and proceed to do the exact same thing to open the next 25 doors.

Finally I need to comment on the story.
Many reviews ignore the multitude of faults in this game seemingly with the justification that this is more about the story and less about the gameplay, but if you expect an epic tale, you are in for an epic disappointment.
Backstory: You play as a young woman with mental health issues and you have a single quest, which is to take the head of your dead boyfriend into the Norse version of Hell, because you have told yourself that this will bring him back to life.
Additional story revealed during gameplay: Your father was crazy and killed your mother when you were a child, which caused your mental issues
Video games such as Super Mario, Doom or Call of Duty all have much deeper stories, but you would not think so, judging by how this game has been reviewed by the press.

It was incredibly interesting to see how simple real world objects are manipulated and seen as magical creations through the main character's hallucinations, but apparently, the story writers ran out of ideas and just decided to switch from it all being delusions to suddenly being set in a magical universe with genuine monsters and a real Hell.
Ironically this completely undermines the story of a girl with real psychosis, which is the excuse all the review sites use for calling this a good game.

The idea is great. The voice acting is great. The story is great... For a few hours.
The actual gameplay can be tedious at times, but generally it is OK.
Sadly it is quite evident that the creators ran out of time and/or imagination about halfway though the project and tied up all the loose ends in the ugliest and most simple knot they could create in an afternoon. Extremely frustrating for such a gripping game to end with the creators taking a crap at the characters, the storyline and the player.
If you can get this for less than five bucks, it is an exceptionally good game for 80% of the time you will be playing it, but DO NOT BUY AT FULL PRICE.