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Mutazione (PS4) Status: Finished playing I started playing this game on Saturday 14 December, 2019 // I stopped playing this game on: Saturday 8 February, 2020
Current opinion of this game
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February 8, 2020 06:33:09 PM
So, I finished it. And uh... it gets more interesting, but not substantially so. I think it's mostly a matter of taste for me - the game is "fine", I just wasn't that interested or intrigued by the story and characters. Yes, it was interesting to learn more about the world's backstory and such...and yes, it was interesting to know more about the characters and see their relationships evolve. But, I guess I'm not that drawn to soap operas?
December 28, 2019 08:06:37 PM
This is perhaps(?) a current indie darling and I've been playing it to see if I might want to use it for something...and uh...I'm not sure I understand what all the fuss is about. There's a lot of reading, and choosing dialogue options and a lot of running about fetching stuff, or going to talk to people. And the art is fine, and the music is fine, etc. But, I'm not super into the story - and the characters are fine, but not super into them either...and so on. I actually like the UI and interface - it's pretty minimal but easy to understand (nice icons appear when there's something you can interact with) and the encyclopedia has a ton of pages but you can flip through them REALLY fast, which is much appreciated. I guess it feels like I'm playing a soap-opera about characters I don't care all that much about. This might change - I think I'm about 1/2 through based on the number of gardening songs I've picked up and my estimate of how many more there are...but we'll see.

Mutazione (PS4)