Good Mourning Reviews

An okay story which doesn't benefit from its format. Good Mourning is a tale about emotional baggage and regrets underneath a moody "slice of life". It isn't pretentious at all, however, the few "lessons" that were supposed to make me reflect landed as pretty obvious or not well explored. I didn't get to empathize that much with any of the characters and the dialogues were barely interesting. As a "run-based story game", it didn't work for me. You get to replay most of the interactions, but you can't know for sure whether it's going to be the same (or samey) dialogue or you're going to miss content if you skip. Once you engage, you have to stay for the whole conversation. That could have been solved with a skip option. There's a "choose your own adventure" element here but you don't get to change anything in the grand scheme of things. The first few minutes prior to the start screen already anticipate this. You just watch how slightly different choices would make others react slightly differently, not how things could actually play out [b]differently[/b] in a significant manner. If that were the case, it would collide with the plot's logic, so that design choice felt misused and made the game feel half-baked. It's just a simple, short story unnecessarily expanded, complicated and severed into smaller pieces by the "run-based" approach. I wouldn't say the visuals were stunning. The soundtrack consists of 3 or 4 forgettable tracks. Unremarkable and tedious. Not recommended. Wouldn't pay ~10€ for it.