This, however, is more a matter of personal preference than an actual flaw in the game.) While this serves to underscore Tilo?s vulnerability, and would undoubtedly work in, say, a movie, in a video game context it gets a little repetitive. (I?ll also add that Ghost of a Tale puts a lot of emphasis on stealth, and that, save for a boss fight near the end, you?ll spend nearly all of your time running and hiding in cupboards and baskets, rather than fighting your enemies. Some characters are willing to talk to you, but these conversations generally serve more of a ?Tell me more about this? purpose than they do to advance the plot. But the way the game unfolds reduces much of this into a series of fetchquests, interspersed with lots of wandering around hoping you?ll stumble across a clue telling you what to do next. There?s a clear message here about bigotry and racism in the way the mice are treated by the world around them. On the one hand, it?s clear that developer SeithCG has put a lot of thought into Ghost of a Tale?s world, in everything from its lore to its characters. It?s the same good news/bad news deal with the game?s story and how it unfolds. And, worst of all, everything here is incredibly dark - even with the brightness turned all the way up, it was frequently hard to see the details of the world around you. Similarly, the camera isn?t great, and swinging it around to get a better view is just as likely to make things worse as it is to give you a better view of things. Every so often, however, you can see the game engine struggling to render everything on screen, and things slow down a little. Everything here is lovingly drawn, and you can see the care and attention that went into every little detail of the hero, Tilo, and the world around him. In other words, it?s an easy-to-cheer-for underdog story in more ways than one.Ĭonsequently, it kind of pains me to notice its flaws more than its many good qualities. On top of that, the whole game is mostly the work of one man, a former Dreamworks/Universal Pictures animator who?s created a game that very much feels like something he might have worked on in his former life. It?s an adorable story about a mouse trying to find his way out of a castle and back to the arms of his beloved wife Merra, using little more than his wits. I think you?d have to be a monster to truly dislike Ghost of a Tale.
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