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Blacktail review
Meh
by BloodScorchedSun

There is a lot I like about this game and a lot I don't. First off, the voice acting sucks. I hate the main character. There are some random sidescrolling sections that serve as backstory lore and the narrative is so padded out and 'woe is me' in all of them. It was so unnecessary to include in the game. There is some amount of this in the main game but nowhere near as bad as those sections so it's fairly jarring in contrast. The main game is a kind of the fun classic fantasy you see in storybooks sprinkled with some darkness. I did enjoy a lot of the art design, especially the hedgehogs and Mr. Grubb. The overall gameplay is fine if a little rough. So much of the mechanics are not explained well at all and the pop ups can be easily skipped on accident because holding a direction on stick counts as a button input to close it. There is a morality system that is both simple and obtuse at the same time. The main story is very meh. Some of the side stuff is interesting to some degree. It is not a terrible game but definitely rough around the edges in a lot of areas.