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Thoughts on Storyteller, sort of a review: The game's length was fine, even with cost factored in. I would compare it to Gorogoa, another innovative puzzle game with an identical length and price tag. I don't care about total game time, but I do care about how long a game can make me feel something. Storyteller gave me a lot of good laughs due to the unexpected interactions between characters and the absurdity of the situations. Even though the game only lasted 2 hours, it was 2 hours of pure comedy, which is much more than many other "funny" games have to offer.

While the comedy and general premise delivered, I didn't get much puzzle solving satisfaction nor enjoyment from creativity, despite this game being more than capable of nailing those aspects. The puzzles only started getting difficult when 8 panels were introduced, and the easier puzzles had a lot more railroading than I had hoped. By railroading, I mean that there were many separate puzzles that basically had the same goal, but you were only given the tools to reach that goal one way in each puzzle. I would have preferred that several puzzles were merged into one, so you could use your creativity to solve the puzzle in the way you wanted, then be offered the opportunity to find the other solutions by means of bonus objectives. The game was too scared to give more than one bonus objective per puzzle and strangely replaced the jester hats (previously denoting bonus objectives) with plain dots. What purpose did that serve? I thought the jester hats had good personality.

Another letdown was that there was nothing unlocked after completing all the puzzles, despite being lead to believe that there would be. You would think that a game about storytelling would understand that establishing a locked page would foreshadow that there's bonus content. The player is gleefully anticipating bonus content throughout the entire game, only to have that joy stripped away by the disappointing reveal of nothing.

Still, playing the game was both fun and satisfying. There was never a single moment (except Waiting For Godot) that I was displeased with the game's logic, and the main mechanic is so fun to use that I can't be too angry. I greatly hope that an update with more levels comes out one day, and if it does, I will be the first to play it.

Overall Rating: 7/10 (Very Good)

I was expecting an “I’m my own grandpa” achievement after the lineage puzzles appeared.

They removed a lot from the demo. However, that martini interaction was splendid.

As a former theater kid I giggled when Waiting For Godot showed up. Such an odd piece of work.

this game has so much depth but is so short
the way the characters have personalities is amazing, like how the baron would push practically anyone off the cliff for fun, or how between edgar, lenora and isobel, isobel is the only one who would poison from only having a broken heart.

i just wish there was a teensy bit more content at the end

I saw two characters and a dead tree and was like "Hey it's Godot!"
I'm happy an editor knew.

The achievements at the end were really interesting. I’d love to see them add more.

A custom level maker for this game would be awesome and probably really easy to implement. Just let the player choose the scenes, characters, and number of scene slots available, then have them choose one event as the "goal", either auto-generate a title or have the player enter one, and voila instant custom level. It would still probably need a few more characters and scenes to have a thriving community, but a simple modding API to add custom characters and scenes would make it easier on the devs' creativity.

9:02 “ yeah, she’s got  the balls” * realizes what he said* “ wait”

Tyler, you're such a good vibe man. Watching you work your way through these games is so enjoyable, and you've really stepped it up over the years in terms of your editing as well. Keep up the good work brotha, I hope you know how much we all appreciate what you do.

These types of achievements are exactly why I love achievement hunting. Figuring out these weird and obscure achievements is an absolute blast and the martini achievement was absolutely hilarious.

5:45 HUUUGE shout-out to the editor. I can't imagine the headaches

Shame it was so short, could've probably gone farther with more scenes. Hope it gets a sequel or DLC, definitely a lot more room for growth

I honostly love this game. The storytelling is hilarious. It's amazing

Fun fact: you can tell a character can do horrible stuff if they have an evil look in their icon instead of a regular look, example: out of edgar, lenora and isobel, if edgar/lenora is heartbroken they will only drink the poison every time, only poisoning the wine when their past lover's ghost had told them they had been poisoned by someone (well at least edgar does, lenora could just be too naive to do that) Meanwhile if isobel is heartbroken she will use the poison and intend it to kill the lover of the one who rejected her. Isobel's icon is her grinning creepily while edgar/lenora's is just them frowning. Its the little things that give hints

It would be awesome to see this game get an update where people can make their own puzzles with more scenes and characters, sort of like how BTD6 challenges work.

The last achievement was hilarious

"Edgar doesn't like lesbian weddings" 💀💀

6:05 "He's old enough to be allowed to be angry."

Yes! I was hoping he'd go for 100%, those achievements were me favorite part