Bear with me is a traditional adventure game which stands apart because of its original story and setting. The game manages to combine elements from gritty noir detective movies with a cute story about imagination and growing up and offers up a cast of interesting characters.
Voice acting ranges from decent to great although a few lines are not delivered correctly which, along with a few typos, may have to do with the fact that English is not the first language of the developers. The game contains plenty of jokes and while some are a bit corny there are genuinely funny moments especially when Amber and Ted engage in some friendly bickering.
Aside from the unique storyline the game is a standard point and click adventure. Most puzzles are logical. The biggest obstacle for me was finding some items as they can be hard to see against the background. Each episode is fairly short and can be finished in about 2 hours which seems fair for the asking price. There are a few choices to be made which offer limited replay value.
But extremely fun and challenging! The paradies and puns in it are hilarious! Controls are hard, even with a gamepad. Graphics are good. Music is cute. Has one minor bug, it doesn't prevent the screensaver from running. So while I'm climing a wall, the game goes away and my screensaver kicks on. I have to wiggle the mouse to get it back. Meanwhile, my bread has let go of said wall. Having to disable the screensaver before launching the game is annoying. Otherwise this is an awesome game! :)
Stories: The Path of Destinies is a nice little ARPG. One playthrough only lasts 45-60 minutes but the clou of the game is, that every playthrough you have to make four big decisions which change the story of the game and which levels you will see. There are 24 different stories to find. Problem is: The game becomes really repetitive after a while and it's too easy. The combat works similiar to the combat in the Batman-Arkham-Games. But there are not many different enemy types, you don't really need to use different tactis in combat. So altogether the game is funny for a few playthroughs, but the fun won't last so long, that you want to find all 24 stories.
Sometimes I just want to sit down and build a city and this works out fine! Tasks to complete, a little villa to build between missions, charming graphics and animation and surprisingly epic music all makes this perfect for a pick up and play type game and it doesn't make you feel stressed out with time limits. I loved Ceaser 3 but it was undeniably stressful at times with wolves eating citizens and random collapses and plauges destroying everything. There ARE random events but they're more like obstacles to think around. It's cute, it's leisurely, and I found no real issues. Just a nice click-a-thon city builder.
Fun game mechanics, nice graphics, great Japanese voice acting, overall polished feel, and Yuki is just cute! Definitely a must have for all fans of stealth games, but I can highly recommend this to everybody else (willing to use their brain a little) as well.
Also what somewhat amazes me is that I can play the game on high details without lags using AMD Linux open-source drivers – that's commendable.
One minor problem I'm having while playing this game is that when there are many objects I can interact with in the view, it's sometimes difficult to have my characters go somewhere without accidentally clicking on those (I need to rotate the camera first), but that's about it.
Average DLC. Bought it to support our modders, but the new buildings are actually really nice, surprisingly. If you get it when its on sale, its worth it, imo.
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