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In order to not make it just a story with nothing to do there are essentially a few pretty basic mini games for you to engage in as you go through the story. These are as simple as throwing a ball to play catch with Mr. Percival (that’s the pelican’s name) or sliding down a sand dune on a piece of cardboard. None of them is really designed to challenge or test you, their intent is to further pull you into the story. To a degree some of them do this, but it’s all very slight and over far more quickly than I would have imagined. An issue is that the contextual buttons to back out / continue aren’t always the same and it’s not always clear what you need to do but I can appreciate the effort to try to include something to help immerse you in the story a bit more. Ultimately the target audience for this may be people who know the story so they already have more of a connection with it perhaps. For me the issue is that it’s all over so quickly while I obviously understand the story and feel some of its gravity I also never had much of a fair chance to connect with the characters to have it be more gripping. Storm Boy is a lovely story with some great art and music to accompany everything. That said, if you’re looking for either a proper game or even an experience of more than an hour or so you’ll probably be better off finding something else.
Justin Nation, Score:Fair [6.0]