ㅤㅤ ✎ . . . ❛ what does a small and inadequate ㅤㅤㅤㅤgirl do in a world full of ash, tar, and coal? ❟ ٠࣪⭑ 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒆 ㅤㅤ𝅄 dark fantasy ㅤㅤ𝅄 narrative horror ㅤㅤ𝅄 puzzle platformer ٠࣪⭑ 𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 ㅤㅤ𝅄 if you like howl's moving castle, the art style/whimsical atmosphere of old disney movies, feminism, and constantly being chased by the horrors, then this is the game for you ! ٠࣪⭑ 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𖬺 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 ㅤㅤ𝅄 available for 24.99 on steam, xbox, playstation, and switch! this game does require a controller even if you play on steam btw. ٠࣪⭑ 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 ㅤㅤ𝅄 11.5 hours ٠࣪⭑ 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 ㅤㅤ𝅄 completed ! ٠࣪⭑ 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆 ㅤㅤ𝅄 set in early 20th century england, as the suffrage movement begins to reshape society, young lana benton searches for her missing friend, carole simmons. her path leads her through bunny hall orphanage and on to the mysterious kingdom of corolla, a place controlled by the sinister mr. kyn, the ruthless owl velenia, and swarms of ravenous tar bunnies. caught between two worlds, lana must find a way to survive and uncover the dark truth behind carole's disappearance. ㅤㅤ ✎ . . . ❛ know how to let go... had she ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤever really been able to do that? ❟ ٠࣪⭑ 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 ㅤㅤ𝅄 ooooh boy. this game felt like it was made specifically for me. which is so wild because i bought it not even knowing what it was about, i just saw the art style and said hell yeah, but this was a lovely ride from start to finish. in the dastardly age of ai, it was such a treat to enjoy a hand drawn and crafted with care experience like this. i need to go find more hand drawn games to play i think this one gave me a kick for them. and i know this story was put into game form for a reason but maaan i would love a mini short film to go along with it as an epilogue or something. i need this kind of nostalgic hand drawn style to get a resurgence so bad. ٠࣪⭑ 𝒊 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅. . . ㅤㅤ✸ this goes without saying, but the art. obviously. i got this game with zero context aside from a 5 second clip i saw on tiktok. hell i didn't even realize i was buying a horror game when i bought it. this game is so beautiful and atmospheric even with the scary parts. ㅤㅤ✸ the game also has the loveliest soundtrack!!! i listen to 'corolla' and 'overture (a little girl)' a lot. ㅤㅤ✸ lana <3333 her character ended up resonating with me far more than i expected it to at first. her desire to cling on to moments of cherished time in spite of an ever quickly moving world was a little too relatable for me. watching her character develop as the game went on healed something in me i didn't realize i even needed to heal. also side note i need a mr. baesie figure or something desperately, he's so shaped. and speaking of characters, i can't go into detail for spoiler reasons but there is a twist regarding a character that maybe is obvious but wasn't obvious to me that had me jumping for joy 🙏🙏 and of course i adored dear carole. i really wish she was a bigger part of the game i was so happy every time i saw her on my screen <//3 ㅤㅤ✸ the hunters !!! the designs and hunting mechanics was really cool. and the sheer amount of different death cutscenes they animated was crazy they got one for everything it was wild. and the mines section of the game was craazy tense. ㅤㅤ✸ the direction the story took, particularly at the end, had me mostly pleasantly surprised. i will warn that the ending of the game is essentially a movie cutscene if that's something that would bother you, but to me it was perfectly fitting given the disney movie vibe the whole game has. the whole story of the game feels so bittersweet and very ghibli/old disney esque, i highly recommend drinking something warm while playing. ٠࣪⭑ 𝒊 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚. . . ㅤㅤ✸ game did sadly bug out a little for me, namely at only 2 parts of the game that i can remember. it was easily remedied by restarting the game and the game has both manual and auto saves so it wasn't a huge deal. ㅤㅤ✸ stairs.....floor navigation.....soooo many of my deaths were result of me trying to go upstairs but lana deciding she was actually going to stay on the same floor or vise versa. maybe this was user error idk. ㅤㅤ✸ the item combination system 🥀 almost everything i had to google was answered with "u need to combine this item with this completely unrelated item you got 4 chapters ago". also when in doubt try using your screwdriver on everything. ㅤㅤ✸ my only other real gripe with the game was that due to how the story was structured, the game ultimately didn't really fill in every plot hole it created. which didn't effect my enjoyment of the game overall or anything but it was a little disappointing. ٠࣪⭑ 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚.ᐣ ㅤㅤ✸ absolutely !!! bare in mind for the mechanical issues i had with the game that this is still being actively updated by the devs to fix the bugs. there was a huge patch fix that ironically went out right as i finished the game so you probably won't even have the issues i did. i truly do think more people need to play this game 🙏🙏🙏