Paws and Soul

Overall, it feels as a VERY cheap rip-off of Lost Ember (https://store.steampowered.com/app/563840/LOST_EMBER/). Also, this should have been an early access or something. It just has TOO many problems to be called a complete game, in all areas: * Game design. - While the game blurb says it's relaxing, the very start is done so as to instill a sense of urgency. Rush, run, or you'll ... what? Fail? Miss something? Notice the lack of anything else about this game and its poor graphics? - Too little information, gameplay is absolutely counterintuitive. At the start, you see a few rocks with glowing "runes". No interaction, no explanation, nothing. They are JUST THERE [TM]. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2168764452 - Next, you are supposed to jump off a very high cliff. And if you didn't read the game's store description, you would not even have an idea it is supposedly safe to do. - Then, you encounter two almost identical (other than their color) spheres. First o...

Paws and Soul is obviously a copycat of Lost Ember and The First Tree. Let me say from the start, that I love these sort of games, but unfortunately the execution of this game is poorly done and the story didn't engage you at all. In fact, I was glad when the game was finally finished as I got bored and was very frustrated with the gameplay. The main issue with me were the controls. I play with mouse and keyboard and it was VERY difficult to control the wolf. If I needed to turn around, I had to go in a big circle. It was very hard to gauge distances, so the platform areas were a nightmare. For some reason the wolf couldn't jump well when running, and that made it difficult to fulfil actions within a restricted timeframe. In areas where you had to pick up a globe on a shelf, it was a nightmare to fine tune the wolf to reach it. All this destroyed the 'relaxing' label the game has. Let me say that there was a lot of swearing my end....and that is not me! Added to which there we...

It took me around 5 hours to finish the game. The first 3 hours I enjoyed then I started hoping for the ending to come. The overall gameplay and environment is enjoyable enough, however there is something OFF about this game. The environments range from being very high quality to being extremely low poly, almost blocky. It seems almost as if the main environment was created by one person and then lower quality trees, rocks, caves etc. were added by another. Very suspicious... I want to give this game a positive review on the background that I think it's a first time effort for the developer or near first time at least. I am not sure on this however, but I want to be understanding if that's the case. The game is EXTREMELY similar to "Lost Ember" & "The First Tree" and unfortunately falls very short compared to the both of them. However if you like these types of games, love wolves and easy gameplay, then I recommend this game. Play it for the gameplay and NOT the story, because th...

While the premise of this game sounds absolutely fabulous, the execution of that premise is just bad. From the writing, through the animation all the way to voice acting. Its unbelievably amateurish. The worst thing though, its the ending. This game is trying very hard to be another Rime, or perhaps Lost Ember. Its failing miserably. 4/10, while running as a wolf with tribal tattoos sounds good, the execution just kills it.

Unfortunately for me it's a game already reviewed several times. In circulation you can find an infinity equal to this title. Good graphics and music. Very classic story and no different from the others. I encountered 2 bugs: I got stuck in a stone after jumping (with butterfly) and the word "Dig" no longer disappeared, remaining in the center of the screen and forcing me to restart the game. At the moment I don't feel I have to recommend it, it hasn't left me with positive emotions. 5/10 my rating

SPOILERS IN REVIEW I regret purchasing this game. As someone else said this game is trying too hard to be The Lost Ember. Hell- I didn't even enjoy that game, but Paws and Souls is NOT good. The game throws you into this world randomly and the playable character- the wolf- questions where he is, why he's here, and why he's a wolf. It's annoying. Meanwhile The Lost Ember is more natural feeling and not as choppy and forced. But first off, the voice acting varies from okay-ish to just terrible. The wolf has this country old man voice and he talks way too much. Like- a lot. If you run into a wall of an area you shouldn't be, the game tells you. One side character's mother- her voice acting gets on my nerves. At some points the voice acting is way too quiet- and it sounds like it's on the other side of a wall. Just like The Lost Ember, you see these visions of weird ghostly figures. The ghostly figures sometimes aren't there or they vanish way too quick. The models are subpar and the po...

Gameplay Notes: Jumping is a pain in the butt. I tried going across the same jumping bridge over 20 times until I found another route(not intended for this use). The controls should be tweaked so the player has better control over the character. Would also really help to have faster running! Story Notes: This game has potential except the main story with David has some story-writing issues that would be better slightly altered. I feel no sympathy towards the father, and the mother should have gotten a better end. The relationship shown in this story are highly problematic (arguing all the time is really not healthy, please seek help!) The fact that it seems like having a child in the end seems to have "saved the relationship", just no, it never does(once again! If considering this please seek help!). I really hope Elizabeth gets a healthier relationship!

I didn't finish playing, because it is very frustrating to constantly be reminded how much potential is wasted in this Game. The idea is awesome as well as the graphics and the environment. Very beautiful and relaxing with a good sountrack. The Story seems to be okay, not the best but not the worst either (Reminder: I didn't finish it!). The most annyoing part is how unfinished this game is. Full of bugs which took the motivation from me to finish it. I wanted to play with my Gamepad and the option to play with a controller/gamepad were in the settings as well, but the controls didn't work properly and you only get the help for keyboards. I saved the game, but when i wanted to continue the next day, I had to almost start at the beginning again. The Pause Menu is not working, because the conversation kept going and after a short time the wolf started moving even tho i was in the Pause Menu. All in All the idea is great but the implementation sucks.

I enjoyed the game for a short period of time. It gets boring extremely fast though and the story is certainly not going to save it. At basically $12 for the game using my typical $1 per hour play time to decide if it was worth it then there is no way on earth I will ever be bored enough to get enough hours in it to make it worth the cost. 2.8 hours was hard enough to stay awake. Interesting concept but utterly boring the way it was made and the story it has. The story seems like some sort of political indoctrination for little kids.

The story is pretty crap. You're meant to sympathise with two children but their struggles are so incredibly contrived - all of their problems could have been resolved if they didn't have garbage parents who are Boomer/rich people stereotypes. The girl Michelle's story is a little bit better but still not good, and for some reason they gave her and her teacher/babysitter (it's not clear for me what she is) heavy French accents but they don't just speak French. The boy, David, has a shitty voice actor that very clearly tries to deepen his voice as he gets older. But his father is irredeemably annoying and pigheaded. For some reason you can't use altars to help David, only Michelle? Weird. The graphics are pretty from a distance but the water is some of the worst water I've ever seen - not even a splashing particle effect seen in Nintendo 64 games. The controls are awful - a run TOGGLE instead of a run hold button, tank controls, a jump that is way too far for most short jumps, jump p...