Sunflower Code Reviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6tbPI1V5-0&t=1s Gameplay Video

The dev released the game on Linux when asked about it, which is great! At least on Linux, the game runs in windowed mode only and in hardcoded resolution. While the setting is nice, especially due to Van Gogh paintings, the game is clearly made by beginning gamedev. It's not bad per se, it's just good to set your expectations right. The story is simple, the rooms are mostly similar to each other. Some puzzles and hints are somewhat illogical. There are translation bugs and graphical glitches here and there, but the thing really hard to pass over are problematic click targets. These sometimes make it very difficult (still possible, though) to pick up or activate objects, because placing cursor directly over them does not trigger action. You just have to circle your crosshair around to find a right place to click. This is really annoying especially in the last level and for this reason I can't recommend the game yet.

Too much slow walking through a field, then a maze of rooms to find notes and cyphers, which are too few and far between. Bonus-the mask appearance may end game. It all feels silly to me. I experienced quite a bit of lag as well despite my PC exceeding minimum specs.

🏆 Overall Score: 2/10 🏆 ⚔️ Gameplay ⚔️ ☑ Just bad [the fucking maze on the back of my froot loops is way more entretaining than this shit] ☑ Repetitive ☐ Fun ☐ Casual ☐ Challenging ☐ epic 📘 Story 📘 ☐ none ☑ Bad [its just exposition and bad transitions with poorly translated text] ☐ Alright ☐ Good ☐ Fantastic ✨ Graphics ✨ ☐ Bad ☑ Alright [They use some kind of filter that makes the god rays and stuff look like you're on drugs, Personally (If I had the knowhow) I would've gone for a filter that makes the ilumiation look like a Van Gogh painting, you know... like the main point of the game] ☐ Good ☐ Beautiful ☐ Breathtaking 🎶 Music 🎵 ☑ Bad [There's none ._.] ☐ Regular ☐ Good ☐ Relaxing ☐ Epic ☐ Repetitive ☠️ Difficulty ☠️ ☑ Boring ☐ Easy ☐ Regular ☐ Hard ☑ Unfair [the freaking phantom mask spawns literally on you with no warning] 👾 Bugs 👾 ☐ Unplayable ☐ very Bugy ☑ bugy [not as bad as some others but like bro, you just have like 3 inputs and basic geometry, how could you fuck that up?] ☐ Speed-run/cheaty bugs ☐ bug free ⏳ Game time / Length ⌛ Idk, I just played 30 minutes and had enough .-. 💸 Buying Price 💸 ☑ overpriced for copy-paste code ❎ Should you Buy? ✅ ☐ Please Don't ☑ Not really [I wanted to believe it was a good game, just poorly judged but nope, it's just bad] ☐ Yes ☐ Absolutely ☐ Must-Have 🙂My 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 Opinion🙃 The concept of this game is cool I think, Van Gogh is probably my favourite artist and Helianthus is my favourite genus of plants (sunflowers) so I'm sad that the game is actually bad The main gameplay loop reminds me of the game "Escape the Backrooms" but that one actually makes me uncomfortable just walking through the halls, but this one is just boring and annoying, not scary at all, the fucking mask is just lazy and ugly looking If someone actually makes something like this the right way I'll be happy to play it but this shit is just overpriced.