Drizzlepath: Genie

A tedious and frustrating walking simulator.

Though it's a sequel of sorts to the original Drizzlepath, it's worse than it in every way. For some reason CryEngine was abandoned in favor of Unreal Engine, and everything looks far inferior to the original game, even at max settings. Instead of gorgeous lighting you get flat surfaces. Instead of pushing bushes aside as you walk, you cannot interact with the environment.

Worse, while the original had a few varying terrains, this sequel has exactly two. It's very boring.

And even worse, the poetry segments are excruciatingly bad. In the original game, they added a little bit of flavor, but here they make me want to claw my eyes out. They meander between throwing in big words for no reason to infantile ruminations about the nature of life, death, and religion.

But the most frustrating part of the game is that there is a choice you need to make early on. There is nothing to tell you the consequences of the choice. I chose poorly, apparently, and was treated to a very very very long trek through sameness that ended in an awful ending, which basically told me that I chose the wrong path, lost the game, that the long and boring path was my punishment, and that I should start over. Fat chance.