Blackberry the Witch: Journey Reviews

I just cannot recommend this game. It has absolutely no direction. You are supposed to use your journal to tell you what you should be doing, but the journal (at least in my game play) does not update as it should and you have to wander around, back and forth, clicking on everything and hoping you can find a way to advance. There is no voice acting, the main character just grunts and squeaks, I had to turn the sound off. The art style is cute for the most part, but the characters are really wonky looking. Bottom line, it feels unfinished and the game just isn't any fun.

I just cannot do it! The moaning and squeaking of the character in lieu of dialogue is so unnerving that I just cannot continue. If I had not left the game on and went out for the afternoon I would have requested a refund.

I 've finished this cute little point and click journey =) it was fun, very entertaining and short in a good way. It took me 5-6 hours to complete so I didn't end up bored and puzzled to the point of no return. Pros: - Nice story full of little twists(sometimes dark and creepy ones). - You can feel some character development here, they don't remain static. Blackberry really changes through the journey, I'm looking forward to follow her with her journey if devs would make DLC or next part of the game. - Art is done with love and passion. My favorite puzzle is the one with painting ^_^ - Music is suiting, even when you're stuck somewhere you don't feel annoyed by it. - Environments look unique, I love every zone we travel across. - Story is tight and complete without any loopholes and cliffhangers. All character arcs are complete. Some characters do look a little bit shallow(like Clove or Liqourice), hope we will see more of their stories later. Cons: - No cloud sync support. I have 2 PCs and not being able to transfer the progress was painful. - Some puzzles lack logic in my opinion. In some places I tried every item on every active point in the room and it worked to my surprise. - Sometimes it's hard to distinguish points of interests from environment. The eye helps but old style adventures like The curse of Monkey Island do better job with the points of interest. Overall it's a great game for a weekend. I would certainly recommend it for you if you into point and click adventures. 8 harassed kittens out of 10.

First of all, the English translation just has to be redone from scratch. Almost every line has bad grammar or incorrect word usage. Sometimes that interferes with the puzzles. There is some nice worldbuilding in the first half of the game, where we piece together bits of information from various sources. The second half feels more like just a bunch of random encounters with random characters. The game is not difficult at all, but it doesn't provide many hints either. Sometimes, especially in the first half of the game, it's quite fun to figure out what the game wants us to do. Other times it's frustrating, especially since there are a couple of puzzles which are just absurd. And of course there are no "hot or cold" hints, either it works or it doesn't. In at least one case, "use X on Y" doesn't work but "use Y on X" does. There are many alternate interface puzzles, can't say I enjoyed any of them. Some of those puzzles are timed. The ocarina puzzle seems to be bugged right now: I play a tune, nothing happens; I reload a savegame, play the same tune, something happens. The graphics are decent, but the animations are quite bad. I really wish there were a way to turn off the interjections indicating a character's mood in the dialogs. Another annoying thing is that I can click through dialog lines but not through speech bubbles outside of dialogs. The diary is good, but the entries seem to be sorted according to the game's internal logic, not in the order in which I unlock them, and completed tasks do not get ticked off. It's impossible to combine two items which are far apart in the inventory, because there is no way to select an item and then scroll the inventory. I don't think it can lead to a dead end, but it once again shows that the game is rather unpolished. It's not really a bad game, parts of it were quite enjoyable, and I think many of the issues that I described are fixable.