Anyone else tried this game? I’m usually not a fan of this kind of RPG and point & click game but this one was special. It’s actually a love story. I was even more surprised to find myself liking and being emotionally engaged in a love story.
For those who have played it, what did this love story do differently?
I played it roughly 2 hours and liked the story less and less as it progressed. Maybe there’s some awesome payoff at the end but I just fail to see what the hype is all about with this one. It’s not the fact it’s a love story, I like plenty of those - maybe what annoyed me most was how it depicted the dying man’s dead wife’s autism.
What annoyed you about it? I found her to be a likable character although not at first. Her strange behavior is explained through the story.
IIRC Her autism was expressed by her inability to communicate certain things: feeling, emotions, or concepts that she felt were important to her. What a terrible thing to suffer through!
That’s IIRC, it’s been a while.
It definitely ties in with a big reveal 3/4 of the way through which had me bawling like a baby 
The terrible inability to ask your love about a special moment they shared together - and having your love, at the same time act as if he doesn’t remember, while doing things that make it seem as though he actually DOES remember and is just playign some tortuous joke on you!
I loved the story of that game. The gameplay was fairly non-existent though, except ina few areas that were fun to explore.
I think this is the most overrated game of the decade. As everyone has already noted, there’s not really much gameplay, though I think there’s still a place for digital stories. That said, the writing is terribly amateurish, at best. The plot is paper-thin - I didn’t really understand why the girl (who has Asperger’s or something?) is evidently cogent enough to fall in love, get married, and live with another person, but too profoundly autistic to just fucking explain that they met before. The makers literally just wrote up every possible heartstring-tugging trope (a secret dead twin, a terminal illness, a deathbed wish, a mysterious girl, amnesia), and then told the story backwards.
Music was really good though.
An absolutely terrible game: no gameplay, puzzles that are never challenging, plot and characterization that seems to be written by 13-y.o. and tedious sections of speech where you have no control.
It just felt false, I guess. I’m autistic myself (as diagnosed by actual shrinks, not self-diagnosed) and there was just barely any points where I could relate to her. I’ve seen a number of autistic characters in books and movies and they’ve usually rang true at least partially - this one was just totally off. If this was a fantasy fairy tale and she had been cursed by an evil witch and that’s why she was like that, perhaps then I could have suspended my disbelief when it came to her behavior but it didn’t work for this story.
I will never look at stuffed platypodes the same way again.