Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.2: 1313 Barnabas Dead End Drive

I really enjoyed the first game. I might enjoy this one too if some of the bugs get fixed. I dont know how it plays on other devices but on my Mac the controrls are unbearably slugish and it likes to freeze up. It makes the game almost completly unplayable.

This sequel has you exploring the town to resolve the conflict that arose at the end of the previous episode. It's a neat town, but do note that the time of day affects who and what will show up, and that's tied to your PC clock. An NPC tells you this during the day, but if you work during the day, and can only play this at night, you'll never know; bad move. You can also switch between day and night by pressing P; it never tells you this at all. Overall, it just isn't quite as good as the first episode; it's still plenty weird, and I loved that, but it ends with one of those mazes where choosing the wrong direction takes you back to the very beginning, and only some of the screens have clear visual cues as to which way to go. And it takes you back SLOWLY; your patience is wearing thin, but you still have to wait for it to fade out and back in without the ability to move EVERY TIME. Everything is slow, even pressing the button to skip the text crawl; controls are very delayed in ...

Positives +good soundtrack +consistent over-the-top atmosphere +decent writing (apart from virtue signaling "racist rights" joke) +cheap +nice sprites Negatives -short (my playtime is not accurate because I AFKd, it's actually around 2-4 hours) -have to play previous free game and buy next episode If you want to understand what's going on -no tutorial or even key remapping/guide (I played with controller and got seriously stuck because one crucial mechanic was not possible to use with it) -clunky controls (character changes direction with delay), only crucial in one fight -weird autosaves (there are only 2 chapters and one of them is rather long and game autosaves after you finished it) For me it was worth, for you? decide for yourself

I love the Baobabs series, but i have to admit that I enjoyed the first episode more. Don't get me wrong, this episode has everything you love from episode one, but it seems like the developers used too many "cherries" (episode one had many amazing "cherries", but episode two just consists of "cherries", which makes it not as outstanding :/). Cons: - there was no introduction in controls, which is usually fine, but I forgot that I could shoot, cuz its kinda long ago that I played the first episode >.< - the map is shit ;D (like for real, dude where are the details?)

This game continues to be fun because of how random the story is, I guess. We get to learn more about this weird world that this game inhabits. I liked the art in the game. It's very new and unique. Set pieces are great. I liked the easy 3d sections. I liked the fetch quests in this game because it is tied to the story. It feels like solving a mystery. I liked the music a lot except the main them song with some movie sounds in the song. That one song that is played during the intro can actually be played when playing the game because when you exit houses, the game changes the song. The thing is, is that that one song isn't good to listen to more than once and when it's on loop it sucks. So you're forced to go back into the house and go back outside in hopes that it skips it. I liked that the translation is much better this time around. There's way too much of the game telling the player that they are indeed playing a game and this is a game and stuff like that. It breaks emersion...

Great game, the best sound track ever, loved EP1 and am loving EP2.