Rusty Lake Roots review

Recommended

by Mia Blais-Côté

I have appropriated this game through the humble Jumbo bundle 11. In two and a half weeks, I was able to finish the game. Rusty Lake: roots is like a novel because the characters are very well developed to the healthy of the "family". They are described through macabre events, in every scene, without losing truthfulness in their pains. These characters are presented in a tree (pseudo-genealogical) that show each scene (33 in total) of the Vanderboom family. The whole begins with a legacy that James Vanderboom receives by the death of his uncle, William Vanderboom. He will give his house where several generations of Vanderboom are put into the world. The whole is set up in the late 19th and early 20th century. The puzzles are easy. A "Walkthrough" has provided us if you have any resolution problems. I had to use it 4-5 times to unlock myself but it is far from a crutch to the development of the game. The scenes are strictly closed to itself that even if you have the Enigma of the end (for example), you will have no idea, or indeed no trouble to cross the table present. There is very little reading to do. It's much more pictographic as an adventure. And, like a tree with several branches, the tables are made of an order more or less decided in advance. You will have the choice of the table you wish to make, but this, within the usual chronologism of a "family". To conclude, I loved this family. The macabre is glitting. Rusty Lake is a 12-game franchise (as of now), and I believe that someday I will be willing to invest in such a game again.