Familiar Reviews

I really wanted to like this game. It was rather fun, despite lack of polish and settings. The hand-drawn style, voiceovers, the siblings puzzle (i like this type of puzzles, but rarely see them in games) - enjoyed it a lot. But the final boss was the turning point for me. This fight is needlessly long and way too random - you can spend several phases simply watching boss regenerating health, because you were unlucky. Also, there is a chance to miss the wooden pole and ending in a falling loop. If you save the game before the boss fight and leave, you can't do the fight! The ingridients are labeled as added, but nothing happens! Re-entering the building or reloading the game does nothing. I hate this so much! Well, at least the music during the fight is nice and indicates the phases. That's quite cool. Some other issues:[list] [*] lack of settings (fullscreen mode, sound change etc.); [*] some dialogue lines are skippable, some are not; [*] the explanation for the music box puzzle is only given once. If you didn't read it (or simply forgot what to do) - good luck figuring it out; [*] the siblings puzzle has some redundant clues; [*] inside the library you can [spoiler]teleport[/spoiler] in some spaces, but there is no action indication for this. [/list] I was willing to forgive a lot of things, but not the awful boss fight. Don't recommend.