Definitely not Sean 最近的评测

It's... fine.

Snowpainters is an interesting game. The main gimmick of the game is simple, yet very clever: You can paint the world and use paint to solve fun puzzles and find secrets. The soundtrack ranges from fine to amazing, Lena Raine is a very talented music composer. At times, the story can actually be engaging and emotionally resonant.

For me, that's where the positives end.

The concept of painting your surroundings, although original and, at first, quite engaging, quickly ends up being a chore. The world is a blank canvas, meaning that almost all the areas are entirely white when you visit them. Coloring each and every area takes time, especially if you want the places you visit to actually look visually pleasant. You're faced with a choice: You either take your time to paint everything (there is a LOT to paint) to make the game look good, hastily paint every place just so you don't have to stare at a white screen or leave the game mostly white and get an eye strain. Maybe the devs should've implemented an auto-paint mode, although it defeats the entire premise of the game. Point is, the visuals are hard to look at unless you take your time to paint every nook and cranny.

Most of the characters are painfully bland and/or superficial. Everyone constantly praises you for everything you do, for everything you paint, even if it's terrible. In this game's world, there's nothing vile, no one with bad intentions, everyone is just painfully bland and have nothing interesting going on for them. The only characters that have the audacity to say something bad about you are put to shame by everyone else, and/or redeemed. The admiration other characters have for you feels incredibly disingenuous, you can literally submit blank canvases of "art" and everyone will insist that your work is unbelievably good. You can smear the same color of paint everywhere and the others will say they love how you painted the place. It's all just fake praises and "wholesomeness" from shallow caricatures of people.

What irks me the most about Snowpainters is the way it portrays mental health problems, particularly that of depression. The level of understanding of such a complex issue that so many people have is almost child-like, although very few games do it right. According this game, it all boils down to having a stressful time and being too hard with yourself, and can be cured simply by taking a break, talking about it to someone and hugging it out. It's a generic, narrowed down approach to an issue that manifests itself very differently for different people. As someone who's been dealing with clinical depression for many years, although I could relate at times, I felt like the oversimplification of this mental illness is almost insulting (particularly, when Chicory is portrayed as an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for lashing out at you while having a breakdown). No offense to the developers, I'm sure they had good intentions, but this approach doesn't feel right.

Snowpainters is not, by any means, a bad game. It has its highs and lows and it might be considered amazing by some people. This is just my opinion based on my experience playing this game.

I recommend this game if you are:
- A kid;
- An aspiring artist looking for encouragement (FYI, this game teaches you nothing about drawing and art);
- Looking for a relaxing game to wind down;
- New to playing video games.

Otherwise, I don't recommend this game. Sorry