Pretentious Game's 1, 2 & 3 need a special rating level somewhere between 3 and 5 labeled "Liked it but probably won't ever play it again because of reasons and feels."
I love these kind of games. Beat it in 20 minutes flat, no hints. Would've been closer to 15 minutes if I wasn't temporarily forced to play on an old monitor that randomly shifts to only displaying blue, thus making color differences indistinguishable :I
To be honest I like these kinds of games, but this one... meh. Between the art style, the wonky point system, and the... ahem... "feature" that pushes a walkthrough on you if you get a level wrong three times... well there are better games out there that I could recommend.
2/5 stars from me because: #1. The game actually works (the physics don't seem to be broken and ball + bucket = level complete), and #2. The music is decent (kind of reminds me of the pubs in Fable).
I died at 80 as an A list actor who also happened to be a hot genius bodybuilder and was the life of the party, yet apparently was crazy unhealthy. Also, after finally marrying my high school sweetheart after 50+ years of courtship somehow we had a baby when we were both 70... a dumb, ugly and overall unhealthy baby. Maybe I died at 80 of disappointment.
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