(Game Review) Rain City [雨城]

Time to read: 2 min read

Game Cover Game Cover

I'm creating an amazing hacker program now, but the upstairs is so noisy, I can't write code in peace.

Platform played on: Xbox Series X

Review

This short adventure follows a cat who arrives at a perpetually raining city in search of his sister, who is a journalist and has gone missing. The plot is pretty predictable and generic but there are some interesting subplots with some wacky characters.

Screenshot Hero of the story

The game is a classic point and click adventure game with some puzzle elements. The gameplay is pretty simple but some of the puzzles are pretty obscure and I had to use a guide to figure out how to proceed. Most of the puzzles were pretty easy though.

Puzzle Simple puzzle

Overall my favourite aspect of the game is its artstyle, which looks hand-drawn and is very aesthetic. Unfortunately, the art is ruined by the poor English localization, which is so bad that just copying and pasting from Google Translate would have been better. The localization is so bad that it's kind of funny. The Chinese language dialogue is pretty solid though.

Localization Terrible English localization

Conclusion

Really dig the artstyle but the gameplay is pretty mediocre.

Overall rating: 6.3

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