Little Brother Jim

This reviewer won’t pretend to understand Little Brother Jim as a whole game. Driving and walking seem just about polar opposites, and the two halves never mix (but do share references.) And the walking is in a nonexistent, fantasy-based world of memories where a little brother has left dozens of letters from beyond the grave, and lakes have lighthouses and mailboxes are just about everywhere. Yes, the driving is simple, if a bit unusual. (Invisibility? Jumps? Block breaking? Deer dodging? And SO MUCH of it!) But it’s pleasant enough, though a bit too simple for someone with hundreds of hours in driving / racing games. But there seems to be an emotional connection between the two aspects, so why not? If you’re like me and never had good a relationship with a sibling, this might be a nice way to feel that closeness, if only for an hour or so. (I spent three hours in the game, but only half or less was walking and finding letters.) At three points the player is asked what they ha...

Alright. [i]Little Brother Jim[/i] is done and dusted. This is an interesting game from Tonguc’s catalogue that offers a different approach to his recognizable style. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3171977671 Why? Because while the story is told with excellent pacing via the walking simulator parts of the game (which he is known for); at the beginning of the game and used as interludes, the game is also a parking simulator, where a bear drives a car through an obstacle course until it finds the parking spot in each level, presented in four sets of eleven courses with the fourty-fifth course being the game’s finale. Which is pretty funny in concept, but the walking simulator part of the game almost immediately tells you why the parking simulator part is there, and ties everything together immaculately. As you progress through the sets of eleven parking courses, new wrinkles are added, such as deer crossing and needing to bunny hop your car over an obstacle...

As I was playing the previous game from the developer, I decided to check, if they've released something after that. This was available at half price. I've mostly liked their previous games, so I decided to get this as well. I was surprised to find that I could actually park the Jeep. Slowly and with some dents, but still, I played those levels instead of skipping. Even found them slightly entertaining, which was a surprise as I'm a horrible driver in games. The walking parts have nice scenery as usual. The "blackouts," which occurred frequently and transported me to another place, were a bit annoying. The walking sequences aren't that long, so I wonder about the need to chop them up like that. Also, there are moments when the camera forces you to suddenly look into a certain direction. That's always a bit disorienting. I liked reading the letters and finding out what happened, although showing the full text at once would have been better than making the player watch as the text sl...

The best experience I had with Tonguç Bodur games on christmas.

If you think you'll like both halves of this game (driving, walking) I recommend it. IMO both halves are equally well made. I'm quite impressed that, most of, the lights on the jeep work. Headlights, right turn signals, brake lights, backup light. The music is nice. The water flows, leaves blow in the wind, birds fly. It feels alive, abandoned, but alive none the less. I do wish there was more interactivity.

I'm gonna say no to this one. I'm a big fan of this indie developer and I appreciate the urge to try something unique, but these two games don't blend together whatsoever. The reviewers saying they do are engaging in magical thinking and are full of poop. Both the parking sim and the walking sim are very well done, but switching between the two is jarring to say the least. Stick with what you know, my guy, and if you want to try something different, release it separately.

Before anything, I feel that it's necessary to tell you that all of the parking levels in this game are skippable without consequence. You can still get every achievement even when skipping every parking level in the game. This is my personal favorite game by Tonguç Bodur. The sights are gorgeous all around, the game doesn't make you walk long distances with nothing to see, there's no annoying narrator. This is just all around a good game. Highly recommended to anyone that likes walking simulators.

Thank God you can skip the parking levels without consequence! I loved the walking simulator portion of this game, but I'm not a fan of the jeep parking simulator bit. It just feels like a totally different game and doesn't mix with the walking simulator portion at all. I get why it's there at the very beginning, as that does serve a purpose, but the transitions out of the walking sim and back to the parking sim after the beginning felt very jarring and really broke my immersion and took me out of the experience. I enjoyed it over all. I've all played all of Tonguç Bodur's games and each one is better than the last. The walking simulator portion of this game is his best walking sim yet. That parking sim doesn't mix though and really detracts from the overall experience. I do feel that if the parking mini game was taken and developed further on it's own it could be it's own thing. Overall I do recommend Little Brother Jim, especially if you are Tonguç Bodur fan.

Beautiful game. Highly recommended.

Not gonna lie, when I first started playing the game, I quit because I was both confused and annoyed. After reading other reviews, I sucked it up and started playing again. After you get past the first ten annoying parking-the-Jeep levels, the story begins to unfold. For me, it started out a bit slow, but as the game progressed, everything started falling into place and making sense. The Jeep game made 100% more sense by the end of the story, and damn, was it bitter-sweet. If you would have asked me if I would recommend this game based on solely the beginning, I would tell you no. But I'm glad that I sucked it up and kept playing because my opinion has changed drastically. Hell yeah, I would recommend this game!