Chilie

sincerely one of the happiest experiences i've had with a game and i'm heartbroken it never got it's follow-up. mixes the aesthetics of kiyohiko azuma with the gameplay of a ps2 edutainment title. it rocks.

Cute little game featuring a humorous story of a young antsy girl named Chilie and a very relaxed guy (possibly her father?) who are on a roadtrip, probably looking for her long-lost mother. Each stage features a short scene in which there's some variation of 1) pressing arrow buttons before time runs out, and 2) performing untimed arithmetic using the numbers/operations you've clicked on during the course of the scene to arrive at an often-randomized target number within a specific number of turns. Both types of gameplay were enjoyable, although I wasn't too good at either one -- particularly the arrow gameplay when you were occasionally required to memorize a short sequence and execute it from memory in a very short period of time. Overall I really enjoyed my time with this game - particularly the characters and voice acting - and it was always a good feeling when I was able to get through a stage on my own without an Excel spreadsheet (I'm not the greatest with basic math). I'm ...