Memories of Fireflies Reviews

The game is genuinely creepy. It features a good balance between the run and hide, leaving you on your toes, not knowing what to expect next. The visuals are very pretty and the story interesting!

I want to like this game. I really do. Let's start off positive: The game does an awesome job at it's atmosphere. A seemingly interesting story that really got me intrigued. The visuals are pretty nice and stylistic. The audio is pretty good as well; ambient music sets the mood well and the enemy sounds are solid. Gameplay, while being not too much special, is pretty fun. semi-stealth sections with a safety net in the pulse. While the pulse kind of renders the enemies less scary, the ammo-like system balances it very well. A couple of minor issues with the controll of the main character, but nothing that hinders too much. However... The way the game is right now, is borderline unplayable... Multiple times, after I died, the game just crashed when trying to reload me. half of my playtime, is me trying to get the game to actually work. Even after changing the game's language to English, the save totem still showed the options in Spanish, which meant I had to go out to google translate to know what the options were. Multiple times, I didn't know what to do, due to either bad/no instructions, or due to the text disappearing too fast for me to read. Not to mention the fact the game takes literally a minute to load from a black screen upon starting it, with a chance of the menu being bugged and my mouse being poorly calibrated to the game (so like, when my mouse visably was on the "settings" button, the game thought it was on the "continue" button 2 buttons above settings) Also after changing my settings, the game would save my selected settings. But upon going into settings again or quitting and then restarting the game, the game will revert all my changes back to the original automatically. I see this game to have a lot of potential. There really is a good game hidden here, but the game is too buggy in it's current state to be concidered more than a pre-alpha test demo for the dev's friends. I hope this game gets fixed, because this game seems really good. But because of it's current state, I just had to refund it, due to being unplayable and crashing constantly.