GENIE Reviews

Bought this game as soon as it came out. Hit a snag in chapter 2 that caused me to drop it for a while. Picked it up again the other day, finished all the way until the end. Game was tedious at times and too wordy, but I remembered the excerpts from the classic 'Drizzlepath: Genie'. Was also entranced by some of the visuals this time -- places worth exploring. Wish Chapter 9 was a whole game by itself, a few others. Look forward to other titles by this same author, games do surprise me.

After completing Genie, I can say I have played every game Tonguc Bodur has put out. Every. Last One. I'm pretty sure I haven't given a single other one of his games a negative review, but I cannot recommend this one. The music, environments, and voice acting are all great. But the gameplay loop...gets repetitive and uninteresting after a couple of chapters, and there are 15 chapters. The fact that this loop involves looking into a blinding white light, a light that made me physically look away every time, was utterly terrible. I muted the game audio and watched a movie while trying to earn the achievements (I had to stop because somehow one of the chapter's game audio was playing despite the master volume and all other volumes being muted). I might have actually read more of the poems if the pacing was not so slow, and if the whole poem appeared at once like most of Tonguc's games. The story was just not engaging enough to warrant the tediousness and slow pacing. I got this on sale for $0.99 and I still feel like it wasn't worth it. The story was drug out far longer than it needed to be, and not in a meaningful or engaging way like most of Tonguc's games. Get it on sale if you decide to get it at all. Honestly, just check out some of Tonguc's other games, as many of them are actually really great. Just not this one.