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Hello everyone and welcome to a pros and
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cons of the video game Little Brother
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Jim on Not Now Mom, I'm Gaming. These
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are short videos featuring gameplay
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clips or screenshots so as not to show
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too much in the spoiler department.
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Links to this review are in the
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description below. Let the reviewing
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Pros: Reinccent flashbacks.
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I loved reading all the letters we came
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across. Not only did they allow us to
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get closer to someone we don't even
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know, but it allowed us to take a look
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into the life of Jim and even remind us
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of moments in our own past.
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Screenshot worthy environments.
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Tonka Padur's games have come a long way
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since Drizzle Path and they seem to keep
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getting better with their environments.
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Not every place is dripping in beauty,
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mind you, but if you're the type to go
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out hiking or visiting different places,
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you'll know that not every place you
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visit is worth bringing out a camera and
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taking a picture of. What I like most
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about this game, as with a lot of their
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games, is the environment changes every
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once in a while, so you're not stuck in
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the same area throughout.
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Maybe one of the flaws I can say with
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this is that the foliage does kind of
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repeat itself. So, it's like, oh, those
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flowers were in the last three places
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we've been to. But the overall landscape
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and environment and maybe what's in it
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does do a slight switcheroo. It's
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definitely a game where you give
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yourself some you time while you walk
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Cons. Downtime, music. While I do often
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enjoy the music in games that this dev
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makes, I will say it sometimes gets to
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be a habit that the music will stop
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playing. I'm not sure if it's because
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it's the end of the track and they don't
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want to put it on a loop up until the
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trigger point for the next song, but
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it's just weird when it goes away for a
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while. Not juroring or anything like
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that. It's more of a wait, why is there
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I guess you could say they shimmer more
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than glow, but this is a personal con
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for me because they're just too
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distracting for the environment. I
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really wish there had been more of a
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subtle beacon of light coming down on
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them, seeing as Jim is already gone, and
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we can only assume he's a spirit in the
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sky. And then when you approach the
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mailbox, the light disappears the same
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way the shimmer does. This would also
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help to guide people better where the
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mailboxes are because there are some
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annoying deadends in this game where
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you'll have to double back
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text hard to read. It's probably the
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major con that the game has because
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reading the messages is an integral part
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of the game. The main problem is that
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the text is incursive and people always
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have a hard time reading that on a good
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day. I actually write these reviews
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first in cursive in a notebook and then
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write them out on my website.
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The second issue is there's no outline
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to the text to make it easier to read.
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Instead, they decide to lighten the
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background, which doesn't exactly help
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us read the text itself.
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And that's the end of a pros and cons
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review of Little Brother Gem. Thanks for
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watching, everyone. And don't get in too
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much trouble when you say, "Not now,
