I thought I enjoyed this game but I'm starting to gt extremely pissed off with it now.
The first three chapters were the writer wanking himself off and being russian, too many words wasted on being a useless drunk. Most Russian games have this thing where they go in lurid detail: "My name is Piotr, today I am living on beach with sexy babes but war has been hard on our family, we spent six years running away from famine, we only had six potatoes to our name, I named all my potatoes after my dead uncles: Herzegov, Rulosta, Yerovic, Andrei, Yugov and my favourite, Vladislav. Vladislav had small spot under chin where fungus grew, just like potato! Is great coincidence. I still remember sad day when we had to eat potato Vladislav, many tears were shed. We spent rest of week drunk on Vodka and contemplating how hard life is. So anyway that was 3 pages about how those uncles saved my lives and potato uncle Herzegov got stuck in gun. I spent six years drinking vodka and being useless drunk. The tits on the girl sure are nice though, they remind me of my mother's vodka, you see vodka was sparse in that time and only rarely..."
By the time you get around to the fun part you want to kill yourself. And I'm someone that loves the story in these games. I have great respect for the Russian preference to subject themselves to arid wastelands like this,I just don't care for it myself.
Still I thought there might be fun bits at the start of chapter 4.
It started great, there were things to do. However, now I'm stuck waiting until time rolls around so I can get those 200 coins. My refurbished broom isn't good enough to spy on the meeting.
Then there's the tedium of improving your stats. Why? Why are we doing this, does this grant any benefits aside from giving your carpal tunnel?
Luna's questions are infuriating, Hermione's puzzles make me want to kick the creator in the nutsack (why are we improving intelligence if we're not getting any benefits from it in either trials ffs), There was a thing with Susan and cake where I was supposed to luck out and get an ingredient right? I don't know. Maybe I should have read the writer's attempt at War and Peace about alcohol.
It's extremely unclear what you can and are supposed to do. No hints are given and most locations seem to be absolutely useless.
I'm not usually one for a cheat button in games, but man this game DESPERATELY needs one to skip all the bullshit.
The art is great though.