Later Alligator
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alias_sqbrAnother highly rated game from the to-play pile, this time one I hadn't tried before!
Later Alligator is an incredibly cute, funny, and understatedly queer little puzzle/adventure game which I would have liked a lot more if it wasn't unnecessarily inaccessible, but I did mostly enjoy.
You play an unseen character helping a guy who thinks his family is trying to kill him. You wander around Alligator New York (everyone is adorably animated alligators) talking to his various family members, who ask you to solve various puzzles and other mini-games. The mini-games vary in difficulty and type: some are impossible to lose, some I found very easy, and others were beyond my capabilities because they required quick reflexes. The writing and plot is very silly but a lot of fun, and there's a nice number of queer characters in the mix.
You can always get to a happy ending no matter how few mini-games you complete. But you have to click through quite a lot of dialogue, especially if you retry a failed mini-game, and there's no autoplay or skip so now my hands are sore >:( This is the second time I've gotten frustrated by the lack of dialogue autoplay in a Pillowfort game, I'm thinking of emailing them because otherwise their games are great.
Spoilers for the ending structure below the cut, but no plot spoilers, and it's something I'd have wanted to know going in! (And think I did, but then forgot, oops)
After a limited number of actions/games the game has a cute ending, but suggests you play again to find out The Truth.
If you do play again but have not completed all the minigames, you get a bad ending. If you play again and have completed all the minigames, you get the True Ending.
So I was fairly happy with the game when I reached the first ending, but annoyed when I realised it would be impossible for me to see the True Ending.
I watched the rest via this Let's Play which reads out the text, and would be a fun way to experience the game if you're not going to play it.
Later Alligator is an incredibly cute, funny, and understatedly queer little puzzle/adventure game which I would have liked a lot more if it wasn't unnecessarily inaccessible, but I did mostly enjoy.
You play an unseen character helping a guy who thinks his family is trying to kill him. You wander around Alligator New York (everyone is adorably animated alligators) talking to his various family members, who ask you to solve various puzzles and other mini-games. The mini-games vary in difficulty and type: some are impossible to lose, some I found very easy, and others were beyond my capabilities because they required quick reflexes. The writing and plot is very silly but a lot of fun, and there's a nice number of queer characters in the mix.
You can always get to a happy ending no matter how few mini-games you complete. But you have to click through quite a lot of dialogue, especially if you retry a failed mini-game, and there's no autoplay or skip so now my hands are sore >:( This is the second time I've gotten frustrated by the lack of dialogue autoplay in a Pillowfort game, I'm thinking of emailing them because otherwise their games are great.
Spoilers for the ending structure below the cut, but no plot spoilers, and it's something I'd have wanted to know going in! (And think I did, but then forgot, oops)
After a limited number of actions/games the game has a cute ending, but suggests you play again to find out The Truth.
If you do play again but have not completed all the minigames, you get a bad ending. If you play again and have completed all the minigames, you get the True Ending.
So I was fairly happy with the game when I reached the first ending, but annoyed when I realised it would be impossible for me to see the True Ending.
I watched the rest via this Let's Play which reads out the text, and would be a fun way to experience the game if you're not going to play it.
