I found this disappointing. It's not really a point and click game, and not really a game at all. It's just a lot of dialogue, and the only clicking is to get the next paragraph. There didn't seem to even be any choices or puzzles or anything to do besides click on objects and read another monologue.

If the written story is the main/only point of the game, then it needs to be something I am interested in or want to read, but this didn't seem well-written. It was like something a 14 year old thinks is deep - very forced.

The presentation was nice, and I appreciated the atmosphere it tried to create with the pixel graphics and the music. But I don't want to read for ages about the backstory of some random person's family. And if I did then I would just read a book right? And it would presumably be better written with a proper narrative.

If you particularly love the dystopian future Louisiana setting then maybe you'll love this game, but I didn't care for it. Most positive reviews seem to praise the story, but that's what I thought was the worst part. Although I quit pretty fast, because the writing was pretentious and I didn't want to click on any more things to read more of it.

I perhaps had the wrong expectations going into this. I expected a point and click adventure game, but it's basically a mildly interactive visual novel, so it's only worth playing if you like the setting and the writing.

That "resemblance to real events are a coincidence" disclaimer really saved their ass on this one. In real life, I'm a Cajun woman who left home to find something that wasn't there. When my mom died, I had to go back after 6 years of absence to handle her business, which was a really inconvenient mess. My small ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hometown was so different it was surreal, but somehow it was the same. That's because it was me who changed. I teamed up with unlikely Cajun men from my past and present. I pieced together my mom's last days from what she left behind.

I didn't do any terrorism, there were no robots, and there were no cults. Also my mom's death was pretty straightforward and not part of some conspiracy. But that's where the Lynchian metaphor picks up, because this game belongs in the annals of surrealism. This isn't some Disco Elysium everything basically makes sense when you're not in the pale ♥♥♥♥. This is some of that OG black tar dream logic. This is one for the fans of actual surrealism that is challenging and weird. It's more of a Blue Velvet than a Muholland Drive in that it is easy to follow and nothing happens that totally defies cause and effect, but it is definitely operating on dream logic.

The gameplay is that of a point and click adventure game with a few one-off mechanics. There is some combat, but the combat mechanics are mainly token and inconsistent. Token is not meant as a pejorative here. It does its job perfectly fine to make it feel like it's combat without adding unneeded friction. The main enjoyment you'll get out of the game is solving the puzzles and making dialogue choices. This is the lowest amount of gameplay I can tolerate, but it does manage to be enough. I'm not a big point and click adventure game buff and I got into it. That probably means it won't offer much of a challenge to a hardcore adventure gamer.

I felt like I had to leave a review to point to this game as a Cajun and say "this is what Cajuns are like." True Detective season 1 is not Cajuns, True Blood is not Cajuns, Gambit is not Cajun, most of Treme is not Cajuns. This is Cajuns. I don't know for sure whether the developer included the scene with the film crew out of beef with the parasites that came to Louisiana for the motion picture tax breaks, but if they did, I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ see you. I feel you. We need more media by us for us about us. I am on my last nerve with these SNL straw hat denim overall ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that even True Detective puts in their ♥♥♥♥. In short, if you made this game: Thank you. In my travels, I met people who thought that Cajun was a type of food, and I started building a Cajun subjectivity that I didn't have when everyone around me was Cajun. Norco made me feel real, like I exist, and like the first 20 years of my life wasn't an elaborate fever dream.

I completed this game 2 years ago and it still won't leave my head.