REVIEW: How To Say Goodbye is a beautiful tale about death

How To Say Goodbye is the newest release by ARTE France, a large French distributor that gave wings to the production of Florian Veltman and Baptiste Portefaix, in which you will have an experience with a friendly character in a quick playful adventure of the afterlife. 

open this small game with beautiful messages and puzzle fun, in which you will barely feel the time pass. And check below how the game was rated by Showmetech.

Mourning in pastel colors

How To Say Goodbye it's a short tale of the afterlife of a character created by you. He will venture into this beautiful world on the other side, incredibly imagined with doors and labyrinthine paths, where people pass, free themselves and even get lost in worldly problems and ruminations. Your role is to get some of those friendly spirits to break free through good thoughts and the awareness that your loved ones will be fine without them.

In its 15 chapters, there is a beautiful cartoonish look, based on illustrations of children's books by Tomi Ungerer, Tove Jansson, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Maurice Sendak, writers well disseminated in French literature and in the popular imagination when thinking about allegories. of life experiences and adventures that refer to the depth of human relationships. Such drawings always send a correct message (psychologically speaking) and are very witty throughout the entire narrative, conveying a pleasant feeling of good company, identification and a lot of warmth.

Even touching on sensitive themes of humanity, How To Say Goodbye it carries a very light and peaceful energy to be consumed. There is in it a very comforting narrative to be read and covered, in which it is possible, yes, to fear or remember the death of loved ones, but never to leave with bad feelings from the complete experience.

His narrative about death is very friendly, worthy of the attention of all audiences, as it ends up telling something very moving and meaningful, in addition to educating very well those who have never had contact with this experience.

Depending on the different ages and possible traumas experienced, it can actually impose limitations. However, it contains a genuine effort to become popular. The unparalleled accessibility it manages to achieve is evident, whether through colors and contrasts with a design suitable for people with color blindness, for example, or through a certain ease permeated among its challenges.

Its beautiful visuals and the creativity of the scenarios (and the narrative situations associated with them) make the money invested in the game very much worth it. The game is worth checking out for these admirable attributes alone. And he still manages to add very interesting mechanics.

passage puzzles

Play How To Say Goodbye It's very simple: just move your character on two different axes around the scene until you find the exit. These scenarios are built with small squares in which each character is positioned and their challenge is to move each axis across the floor, that is, to move an entire row that interconnects or not with other points in different spaces, where the entire structure of their puzzle is based. In certain stages, it will also be necessary to collect keys, modify platforms and free friends made along the way.

In this format, puzzle super creative and thought-provoking are established with great elegance, linked to the beautiful graphics mentioned and a very interesting art direction. Also, the difficulty of these puzzles scales nicely from one chapter to the next. Given its simplicity, this is not where you will find such complex and very difficult challenges, since the main focus is on the beautiful narrative, even with great possibilities of leaving completely satisfied and fulfilled from each of the phases.

Feelings in the right dose

Even expecting little from the game, it is possible to be surprised by everything it offers. To the same extent, it boils down to being very contained, having everything in the right dose (and satisfying too much for it). Its duration is relatively short, but in its few hours of gameplay there is a very unique work, filled with engaging puzzles and graced with a very beautiful and exciting narrative.

How To Say Goodbye it is for those who are in a hurry and want to enjoy a good game Aspect indie. Although it does not contain save points in the middle of the chapters, which would save some time in inhibiting situations, it is possible to finish it in a few hours of dedication. Especially if played in a single session, in a single state of mental flow.

Dealing with such a delicate and human subject, what he achieves in terms of narrative is really very unique. There are very captivating characters, who will charm you immediately and will be a key factor for a full engagement in puzzle so satisfying. For this reason and for all the poetry, all the philosophy and all the teachings about the end of our lives, it is really worth checking out. How To Say Goodbye (and I recommend separating a tissue to play with).

How To Say Goodbye is available for Android, iOS, PC, and Switch.

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