Mutazione

The real treasure was the friends we made along the way Mutazione is described as being a mutant soap opera by the devs, and it’s hard to come up with a better description for it. You play as Kai, the granddaughter of an elderly scientist who has fallen ill on his island home. You travel to the island in order to help care for him, despite some difficult family history, and become a part of a strange community. This is a community with many quirks and a fair share of drama. Over the course of the game you’ll learn more about the strange, but wonderful inhabitants of the island and more about the island itself. Positives: The art is gorgeous, I love the flat style with vibrant color. The characters are well designed, as are the environments. It’s one of the best-looking games of the year in my opinion. One of the areas that this game really shines in is the animation. There’s no voic

This is probably the sliciest of all the slice of life stories I’ve played through. Set in a small mutant community, on an island struck by a meteor in times long past, with life’s vagaries, trials, tribulations, and mutant metaphors, the lushness of emotions on offer here is astounding. The intense feeling of a town overtaken by nature, but warmed by the characters and their relationships, even the troubled ones, makes the interactions vivid, and it just hammers home the thought that we’re all sometimes idiots, but that it’s okay since there aren’t really any other alternatives for us to be. The community is certainly the star here, with your character being a rare summer disturbance, but one that gets entangled in the island’s future, its legacy, and its soul. The town living in harmony with nature is a close second, and the feeling of it being alive and grounded, with engaging charac

There's a bit of dialogue at the beginning of the game that I feel describes the tone of this game very well: "I've never seen someone die before." "I've never died before! It'll be an adventure for both of us." Beautiful, melancholy, hopeful, very real. A game that is about tending to gardens, and tending to people. I love the imaginative world of Mutazione and I love its inhabitants and I highly recommend this game to everyone; it's stunning

You don't play Mutazione, you live in Mutazione INTRO Mutazione is an indie gem, a wonderful game or maybe more like an experience. It's extremely chill game and relaxing experience. I can't actually define it by genre, it's kind of a point&click, narrative, gardening, mystery game? STORY You play as Kai – a simple girl who loves swimming. After the meteor hit a small town, mutants started appearing there and they live there on that destroyed island. So Kai travels there to see her ill grandpa. This is when your weird journey begins. You meet your grandpa of course and learn that he has been severely ill and he asks you for help to take care of a garden. You and Kai have no idea why at first of course, but it all makes sense in the end. You also meet other characters, each of them have their own character and you fall in love with them. They're a small community, like a family with t

I was looking for something to play after finishing Oxenfree that kind of had the same vibe....while this isn't scary or ominous at all, it does capture the slow, investigate-y, story-telling aspect of Oxenfree that I was looking for. First of course I have to mention how absolutely stunning the art style is. Nothing feels like an afterthought and everything comes together cohesively and seamlessly, like a real environment. The plant encyclopedia hints at a much bigger picture of this bizarre place which shows the level of world-building that the creators have undertaken. The game is better when sipped slowly, taking your time to tend your gardens, explore, talk to all the characters at every different time of day, and really appreciate what you're looking at. I squeezed about as much out of this game on my first playthrough as I could, but I need to go back to Mutazione because I ge

when i was about 30 minutes into this game i felt compelled to write a review and so i started saving my thoughts in text message drafts on my phone, so forgive me if this seems disjointed but i'm piecing them together now. what struck my first was the art direction. there's such a beautiful colour palette and harmony to everything, and it is a huge part of the reason why you're so effortlessly transported to an alien world. there were a few moments where i'd appreciate a scene differently because of the day/night cycle. everything in this game unfolds slowly, from the story to the gameplay down to your reasons for exploring the world. throughout the game there is a gentle tension and unease which gives way to touching moments and warm humour. initially it reminded me of oxenfree. essentially you wander around and gather seeds to grow gardens which produce soundscapes that you can sit