Bleakshore

6.4/10 - Bleak but also optimistic, (10 - 20 mins), this game is a walking sim with elements of small exploration as you find items which make you learn more about you and your wife.  The game feels like walking around a big new area in real life not knowing what's ahead and finding whats in the corners of it. Because the world is so big and open, you can end up explore aimlessly and find nothing, so I suggest you follow the paths which you can find. I think this game is pretty and it does have nice audio which reflects the mood of this game. 

However I think this game has a lot of small issues such as glitches (you can get stuck on a rock right beside the lighthouse), exploration (I wish there was more to find on the outskirts of the map) and the story (It could've been expanded on or told in additional ways to make it slightly more engaging). I also have mixed feelings about the ending as I think it was a good twist but also I felt like I was slightly undermined by the climax of the game. 

Overall it's an interesting but slightly disappointing game which is definitely not for everyone. In a way it feels like a heavily stripped back and lower quality version of these type of games: Dear Esther, Vanishing of ethan carter and What remains of Edith Finch! (I really recommend the games I listed here especially Edith Finch, although they are all different in many ways)

Needs reprogramming of the dialogue parts. It's awfully time consuming to wait until the words appear. Makes replays feel incredibly redundant and joyless.

Huh, that was a cool game. I did not expect the ending, so that's a first lol (I was expecting it to be like all the others, where you're reliving memories, or something like that, and that she had died or something lol)

My main criticisms are just 2 really:

1) There is no way to tell if you get all the items or not (even if at the end its like x/x items found) (this might just be coming from my completionism lmao)

2) The map is so large (or feels that way at least) With items so far and few between scattered among several paths, it was way too easy to get lost, especially trying to see if you've gotten items from the different paths

I loved the spooky atmosphere though, it made me feel like I was being watched, and seeing the cloaked shadow figures every so often helped in that haha, Good job overall!

Does it just have one ending?

if i goota be honest I didnt really liked the game for a multitude of reasons 

firstly i played it for over an hour and still wasnt finished because i didnt followed the right way because i couldnt really see where the way was going (i also felt kinda lost)

i also restarted once after 10 minutes because i wanted to make the game not as loud and thought there might be a options menu when i press the esc key (yes its my fault that i didnt read the controlls but still)

so eventually i looked at some gameplay of it however i allready quit the game so i didnt played it more (the ending however was suprising)

the texts and overall the gameplay were slow so i needed to sit there for another minute to read the same text again and after a while it felt somewhat repetetive and bare bones since there wasnt as much happening

even tho the music and sound was scary itdidnt really like it since it was so high pitched i felt

two other things i noticed since i saw the youtube video were that i noticed that the trees were swaped out for some black monster for me they just disapered and that some part of the screen were cut of for me

still not going to hate the game as much since it was pretty neat and it was made for the hounted ps1 weekend and for that it was pretty fiting