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[★★★★☆] Not Now Mom, I'm Reviewing How To Bring Music Back to A World of Silence [Demo]
Jul 21, 2026
This is a short review of the demo for the game Songs of Glimmerwick.
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0:00
Hello everyone and welcome to a pros and
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cons of the demo for the video game
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Songs of Glimmerwig on not now mom I'm
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gaming. These are short videos featuring
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all my little nitpicks and pleasantries
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with having played the game while
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sustaining a bare minimum spoilers. Keep
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in mind demo reviews do not reflect the
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full release of a game as many things
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can change from demo to release. Let the
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reviewing begin. Pros: Almost fully
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voice acted.
0:30
>> Island of Gliverwick.
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I must admit, I don't think I've ever
0:35
had a passenger from your village. You
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folk really keep to yourselves.
0:40
>> I went into this demo not thinking that
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it'd be voice acted at all, but I was
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thoroughly surprised by the fact that
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most of it is fully vocalized. There was
0:47
only one choice I clicked on that wasn't
0:49
voiced in my playthrough, and our
0:50
character also isn't voiced on whatever
0:52
it is we say, but it's all good. Maybe
0:55
my one concern with it being all voice
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is that the lines continue on their own
0:58
instead of you needing to press a button
1:00
to continue. We don't really know that
1:03
it does that until that happens. And I
1:05
think most people will accidentally skip
1:07
dialogue if that's the case. Fun mini
1:10
games for spells.
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In order to cast spells properly, we
1:14
need to learn the magical tune for them.
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So there's something of a rhythm game
1:18
going on. Except it's not as intense as
1:20
some of them are. Thank goodness. I'd be
1:22
terrible at learning spells otherwise.
1:24
It's more like you have a music sheet
1:26
with notes dropping down and you have to
1:28
press the corresponding button when they
1:29
reach the designated area. There's also
1:32
potion brewing that has its own miniame
1:34
as well. You take your ingredients and
1:36
place them into cauldrons as fast as you
1:38
can without any slip ups and have an
1:40
extra bowl to put ingredients you don't
1:41
quite need at the moment. But you need
1:43
to use those ingredients before the
1:45
timer runs out or your docked points.
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hard to explain, but I really would like
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uh what they're doing on both the mini
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games. Nice world building. The
1:55
characters themselves will talk to you
1:56
about certain places or events if you've
1:58
unlocked the thing to talk about, such
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as with the uh silence issue going on,
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but then there's the backstory, the
2:06
intro, and the teachers who talk to you
2:08
about certain aspects of the past. I
2:10
love learning lore in video games and
2:12
the lore in this game is pretty
2:14
fascinating while with the world once
2:16
being silenced and everything is sort of
2:17
finding their voices and bringing music
2:19
back. No stress on time. There is a
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clock in the lower left so you know what
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time it is and there are moments in the
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day where things are scheduled. Well, I
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don't know what exactly happens if you
2:30
go past the time of your scheduled
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events or even if you can. The time does
2:35
stop during specific scenes and once it
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hits a certain point in the evening.
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There's no passing out if you're wasting
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time. There's no going from one day to
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another while you're out roaming, as far
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as I can tell from the time stop
2:46
implementation.
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You can go to specific scheduled events
2:49
earlier in case you don't want to wait
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for the exact time. Cons:
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Some customizations not needed. I like
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the fact that there are character
2:59
customizations, but there are some
3:01
portions of the customizations that I
3:03
think just aren't needed and are a
3:05
little silly to implement, such as the
3:07
nose and mouth shape along with skin
3:09
feature. Your character model is so
3:11
small. I just think these things will be
3:13
overlooked on your character anyway. If
3:15
we got close-ups of them throughout the
3:17
game, then all right. But going through
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the skin features, several things I just
3:22
couldn't see. I didn't know what the
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choices were showing me, so it seems
3:25
silly to implement them when it's also
3:27
minuscule. Anyway, some UI parts need
3:30
work. One of the main things is moving
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items from your inventory to your
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storage. You have to manually grab an
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item from one place and move it to
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another place instead of having a
3:40
keybind to place them in one place or
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another. Something else that was a bit
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clunky is certain portions of the menu
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interface, such as with your spells. It
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took me a moment to figure out that I
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needed to move my cursor to the right in
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order to click on the scroll to bring
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the full spell sheet up to play the
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tune. I played on controller, so maybe
3:58
this would be easier to realize on mouse
4:00
and keyboard, but nothing really told me
4:02
that's where I needed to click. Same as
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with some other things on the right
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section of the menu you chose. You had
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to move the cursor on that side to click
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things. It just needs to have something
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to tell you that's there.
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My last gripe is that the items you can
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throw in the well to earn money from
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doesn't reveal how much money you're
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getting from them, but they show how
4:22
much you can sell them for in the
4:23
inventory themselves. And that's the end
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of our pros and cons for the review of
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Songs of Glimmerwick.
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Thanks for watching everyone, and don't
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get in too much trouble when you say,
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"Not now, Mom. I'm gaming.
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