![]() ![]() But considering there are a couple of pretty sizeable places to explore - the main mansion, obviously, to say nothing of when you start off the game stuck in some catacombs - Whispering Willows definitely would’ve benefited from providing players with some kind of map. That, obviously, doesn’t require too much memorization, and as long as you can follow along with the story it will mostly make sense. Now, for the most part, that’s not too difficult you’re generally tasked with going to Person or Point A, where you’re instructed to go to Person/Point B, where in turn you get sent on your way to Person/Point C, and so on. The only other area in the game that’s even slightly as difficult is in the way it expects you to just remember everything. You’ll eventually get through with a bit of persistence, of course, but it’s still pretty jarring to go from one end of the difficulty spectrum to the other with no warning whatsoever. ![]() ![]() At these points, you’re basically relying 100% on luck to get by. I don’t want to give away exactly what happens - the whole thing centres around a mysterious ghost story, after all - but there are one or two spots (particularly near the end) where the game suddenly throws aside everything else it’s trying to do in the name of killing your character at all costs. I mean that Whispering Willows is generally a fairly easy, straightforward game that occasionally becomes thoroughly impossible. And I don’t just mean that every so often it becomes a little harder than normal. The very fact I was able to do that makes me feel a certain fondness towards it - even if I can see that, as adventure games go, it’s got its fair share of flaws.įirst and foremost among these: the game features some ridiculous spikes in difficulty. See, it’s an adventure game I was able to beat with a minimum of outside help, and that’s normally not something I’m able to achieve on my own. I feel like I enjoy Whispering Willows for the wrong reason. ![]()
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