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Will Cruz reviews Fall of Porcupine, developed by Critical Rabbit.
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I'm so seeing the Night in the Woods influence. Seeing how much I loved that game, I'm probably gonna pick this up at some point.
It's Got that Night In The Woods Vibe.
Great review! Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I played and enjoyed the demo many months ago after seeing the trailer in an indie showcase stream on here.
Porcupine fun fact:
They are so bad at climbing tress but at the same time so stubborn about it, that nature gave their quills an antibiotic coating.
This way they don't get clapped by infections after falling out of a tree again and impaling themself.
Did. An. A. I. Write. This. Review? Because it sure sounds like a list of features dully mixed in to a stiffly spoken word sallad for my mindless consumption.
Another cozy game to add to the list for when the shadows get too close.
Thank you for the review!
At 00:46 looks like a reference to Oxenfree
I needed a follow-up after Night in the Woods and I'm glad this is excellent!
Cool, I’m really looking forward to playing this one in the autumn!
Awesome! This review set the game on my radar!
This gives me Spiritfarer vibes. I'm very interested in this one.
This looks wonderful! Thank your for sharing 😀
Love these allegorical fable games with killmonday and night in the woods vibes
Wait, this is not Night in the Woods 2?!
This is a game I'll be just watching and falling asleep to not playing. Looks very boring.
Playing it now, and while I definitely agree that the narrative and characters are delightful, MAN I wish you'd warned the users about how buggy this game is. I am enjoying it, no doubt, but oof, the glitches and stuttering I'm encountering are pretty rough.
The Turtle is voiced by JK Simmons Right?
At risk of sounding like a Zoomer with a microscopic attention span… HOLY HELL WAS THIS GAME BORING. This was supposed to give you a glimpse into the life of a healthcare worker, but it instead has bland dialogue that goes ON and ON and ON and ON. It’s like the script was written by an AI that was requested to sound quirky. I get that this is supposed to be a “feels” game with minimalist relaxing music… but the theme is healthcare and it takes FOREVER for anything even vaguely interesting to happen.
I love the visuals but just couldn’t vibe with the text, which is the biggest reason to play this game.
I played the demo and I wasn't terribly impressed but I'll still probably give it a try at some point. Some of the characters felt over-acted as "I'm the X character" and the dialogue and humor at times felt more emblematic of trying to interpret and use Night in The Woods dialogue without understanding why it worked. It's difficult to talk about this game without talking about Night in The Woods as the two share a partly non-consensual coupling in their identities now. Maybe if I hadn't played the former I wouldn't be so miffed by the first few minutes of this including light jumping puzzles alongside trademark 'witty playful everyday dialogue talking to objects' that the protagonist exerts. The choices in the demo also felt like thinly veiled 'good friendship or bad friendship' choices.
Regardless I hope the devs see the success they want to with their release, and it looks like they will given how it's slowly growing into the public perception. I can't imagine the work that goes into making sure two dialogue trees from different playthroughs don't accidentally bleed into one another through an innocuous action.
I thought it was made by the same people who did night in the woods at first but hey still gotta support the german gaming industry