It is total garbage and a complete and utter waste of humanity's time. For a game that costs much more on the Switch than it does on other platforms, that's a lack of respect for your buyers. The half-baked controls give me the suspicion that this game was converted in a hurry to jump on the Switch bandwagon, and the authors didn't even care to play through the conversion to test it with the different modes of control. There was one sequence in particular (the "green landmass" scene) where even after knowing what to do, I just couldn't make it work with the touch screen, which is supposed to be the main mode of interaction with the game. Combined with the limited interactivity, that makes for a very frustrating experience. In some scenes, the game just won't do what it's asked for. What convinced me to give it a very low score, however, are the terrible controls on the Switch. All of those shortcomings would make for a mediocre game. Worse of all, the text that accompanies the beautiful images is overwritten and dense with adverbs. The humour falls flat more often than not, and the branching story is just a series of disjointed encounters without a narrative arc. This lack of interactivity wouldn't be so damning if Burly Men worked as a piece of fiction–but for me, it doesn't. In some sequences, you're left wondering whether your commands are having any effect on the game at all. Burly Men is just barely interactive enough to call itself a "game". It has gorgeous, stylish graphics that I wouldn't mind hanging to my sitting room walls, a nice core idea, and beautifully quirky sound effects. It has gorgeous, stylish graphics that I wouldn't mind hanging to my Burly Men at Sea is a point-and-click choose-your-own-adventure game. Burly Men at Sea is a point-and-click choose-your-own-adventure game.
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