PsychoCarbo Gomo Review

4/10 Review at the end! ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ DaVinci created a new reality ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Red Dead Redemption II ☐ Byutiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Don't look at it for too long ☐ Bad ☐ Atari ☐ Tamagotchi ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Your PC runs Paint? ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boy ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Story }--- ☐ Story? What story? ☐ One word. Pewpewpew! Three words. Pew pew! ☐ Something with a bit of a story ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Beautiful! ☐ Isabel Allende, Machado de Assis, and Tolkien joined forces to write it ☐ It will replace your life ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ "I know kugfu!" ☐ Excellent! ☐ Good ☐ Kind of cool ☐ Meh, you can play it with two fingers ☑ Instead, watch the paint dry ☐ Just... no ☐ Smash your hand with a hammer, it's funnier ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Not needed ☐ Only if you care about achievements ☐ Not necessary to progress ☐ Medium level of grind ☐ Grindmaniac ☐ You'll need a second life to grind ---{ Difficulty }--- ☑ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Average ☐ Hard without a brain ☐ What's your IQ? ☐ Dark Souls ☐ Hawking joined with Neil deGrasse Tyson to create a time machine and thus find Einstein and Tesla to create this game. ---{ Hours of Gameplay }--- ☑ Enough time for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Medium ☐ Long ☐ You start, your grandchild finishes ☐ To infinity and beyond! ---{ Replay } --- ☑ Once is enough ☑ Only if you're aiming for achievements ☐ After a few months... Years... Mods... ☐ With DLCs it's worth it ☐ You'd better have time to waste ☐ Well... You didn't need a life anyway! ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of them ☐ Small glitches ☐ Can be annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ Cyberpunk 2022 ☐ The game itself is a great bug breeding ground ---{ Multiplayer } --- ☑ No multiplayer ☐ Lan ☐ Says it has it, but it'll blow up your PC if you try ☐ There it is... A lonely, forgotten desert ☐ Meh, it's kind of fun ☐ Solo mission? What? ☐ Basically an MMO ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Audiorgasmic ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Acceptable ☐ Bad ☐ I'm deaf now ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Children ☐ Teenagers ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ☑ Everyone ---{ Price }--- ☐ Not available on Steam anymore (you can easily find it on other platforms, even on Netflix!) *I didn't test The Definitive Edition, and based on the reviews, I won't. ☐ It's free! ☐ The price is fair ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If you have some money to spare ☑ Not recommended ☐ You might as well just burn your money ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☑ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Maybe I'm being too harsh, as this was my first Point&Click experience. On the other hand, since then I've tried the first Deponia a thousand times, and I really don't like the experience. Maybe it's the genre I like the least, even less than Formula 1 I believe. Well, not to be unfair, the story can be interesting and cute, the atmosphere and design are nice and the logic is there. But even the humor is too childish, and the target audience doesn't seem to be exclusively children. That said, I truly believe the game itself needs improvements, because the game is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Not just the movements, but everything, everything. And knowing that the genre is about coming and going to solve puzzles, it's EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETERNALLYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. And with that, the SLOW animations are primitive. And on the other hand, you can finish the game in, at most, ONE HOUR. In other words, they managed to cram an eternity of BOREDOM and a game that is too short! Let's admit that this is impressive! And look, they made the effort to include mini-games to be unlocked, but they are unplayable due to the terrible mouse management. So, I can't recommend this game. It even has potential, but even so it shouldn't be for sale. And it should be clear that it's for kids. Ok, I'm may be being a little unfair, since Gomo is my first point-and-click experience, and I still don't really know what to think about it. I feel that I could get to like this kind of game, but with some real improvements. But what about Gomo itself? Well, it's... Interesting and kind-hearted! Nevertheless, that doesn't make a fun game nor a good game. It'll be easier to explain with the pros and cons system, so here it goes: Pros: It has some logic. The art, the drawings and the idea have potential. It could be pretty interesting, with some dark humor for example. Aaaaaaaand, that's pretty much it. Cons: The first thing that will bother you is that everything is sloooooooooooooooooow! The reactions are slow, the animations are slow and everything repeats, integrally, all the time! And, since it's a point-and-click and an investigation game, you keep trying things, searching solutions, so it forces you to witness the same slooooooow animation everytime. It gets really boring very quick. The animations, even being repeated every time, are in fact too poor. You feel it could have been better. Sometimes it even impeaches you to go ahead, because you don't really know if what you did had some effect. You can finish the game in... 45 min? 30 min? I don't even know if it's really a con now, but it's way too simple. I mean, you really feel mugged, even if it costed you 10 cents. The humour is really childish, really. It's not a bad thing, but it should be noticed. Aaaaaaand, you can unblock "extras", some kind of mini-games... Well, bad decision. The first problem is that the mouse doesn't really work, so I won't even bother talking about the rest. So, Gomo has potential, but that's all. Unless it's an introduction for kids into the gaming world, but you should know it since the beggining. Too bad.