Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan

Absolutely wholesome. A rater cozy game full of exploration, some light platforming and light puzzling, and not too complicated puzzle fights, with agility mini games to execute them. While the game is pretty fun mechanically (although some of the fights can get a little tedious, but not too much), and there's a lot to uncover and explore - that's not where this game shine. It's a wonderful story, full of feelings, empathy and light. While it touches on difficult (and sometimes even very tough) issues and situations, it does it with a lot of understanding and good will. The various situations, flaws, disorders and illnesses are shown in an compassionate way - and explained the best way possible: as what they really are, and where they come from. It could serve as an eye-opening material for many, showing the real side of human behavior that may seem irrational, "weird", or even "wrong" - while when considering context, circumstances and emotions, are "just" human responses.

[i]Originally posted on [url=https://www.dragon-quill.net/rainbow-billy-curse-of-the-leviathan/]Dragon Quill.[/url] Comments are enabled there.[/i] This is a cute kids' game of the "experimenting with nonviolent gameplay" genre. It reminds me a lot of both [i]UnderTale[/i] and my own [i]Flawed Crystals[/i]. The overall structure is essentially, "What if when you spared enemies in [i]UnderTale[/i] they joined your party?" A set of recruited enemies are drawn randomly from a deck in each round, and you can summon a certain number per turn. Outside of battle, you can level up your friendship through the standard video game relationship strategy of bribing them with gifts and food. The plot is a standard Saturday-morning-cartoon-esque premise: An evil monster has drained all color from the world because he wants to remove the hero's "rainbow heart" and make everything conform to normalcy. If that sounds like very queer subtext, you may be surprised to learn it is actually queer [i...