My Brother Rabbit, Artifex Mundi’s Heartfelt Tale Releases September 21

By:GeekyGamerGirl87

I have played many puzzle games in my lifetime, and I will say that I really do enjoy them. I’ve always loved puzzle games because they help to get the mind juices flowing. However, I have never played a puzzle game that has set off – from what I have been told – my gamer’s ego, like I have with My Brother Rabbit. Now, I am not saying that this is a bad thing because it’s not. Some puzzle games when I get stuck, I will turn them off and come back to them later down the line with no rage. However, I found myself having a fiery passion and vendetta about finishing  My Brother Rabbit. The frustration – again it was a good frustration because it’s been awhile since a game has challenged me to the point of completing it— that I felt made me finish this game because I wasn’t going to let this game get the best of me.

Developed and published by Artifex Mundi, My Brother Rabbit is a point and click hidden object adventure game that will leave you mesmerized. I was first drawn into the game when I saw the trailer for the game and saw the Rabbit and the flower and immediately said, “aww, this is so adorable.” So, I knew I would love the game. The artwork is beautifully stunning, and the nature of the game keeps you pulled in and wanting more of the game.  However, I am getting a little ahead of myself. As always before I begin my review, I would like to thank Artifex Mundi for providing thedailygamepad.com with a free copy of the Steam Version of My Brother Rabbit.

Let’s talk about the storyline of My Brother Rabbit. I will be honest and say I absolutely love how the story in this game is being told. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that is very true with My Brother Rabbit. There is no spoken dialogue in the game, but the story of the game is told through pictures and is then left up to the player to interpret. Personally, I have – at least so far – four different interpretations of what the story could translate to. It is due to this nature that I cannot really go too far into what the story is in this game.  The story may turn out to be something different for everyone and I love that the developer has done this and thought it was very clever.

In terms of gameplay, this is a Hidden Object Puzzle game. For those of you not familiar with the genre; you must find objects to progress the story.  In addition to finding the objects there are puzzles you must complete to obtain the objects as well. The game has a very well balance of finding the objects and solving puzzles to get the objects you are missing. One thing I liked in the game is that it will tell you how many objects you need and if the objects is in fact locate in this area of the game. This hint system is found in the upper right corner, if the objects are highlighted then it can be found in the current scene. If it is grayed out, then it is either not there or all has been found in that area. I will let it be known that just because it has been grayed out does not necessarily mean that all the objects in that area has been found.

As stated sometimes, there may be a puzzle you have to complete to retrieve the last piece. There is another hint system that isn’t exactly a hint system. Sometimes when you click on parts of the puzzle it may show you what needs to be done. However, this is not to be confused with it telling you how to complete the puzzle and sometimes you must really think outside of the box to complete the puzzle.  The game has a total of six levels with multiple scenes, I enjoyed the complexity of the levels. My only complaint is I wish that the last level would have been a little more complex I suppose. This is a double edge sword for me because it was also nice to not have to do too much and relax with the last puzzle. However, I also wished that it would have gave a little more of a challenge. For you to have the  challenging puzzles and even at times hard to find objects throughout the game and then the last puzzle be rather simple, was a little bit of a letdown. It’s not a deal breaker for me just more of a preference.

In terms of the controls you can use mouse or gamepad for the game. For myself personally, I used mouse and that is because it was simple to use. In fact, at least for the Steam Version – the game again is also available on consoles – I felt that the gamepad controls were over complicated and honestly the game on Steam did not need the controller scheme set up. I felt that it was more natural to just play the game with the mouse which makes it into a traditional point and click game.  The controller options does have everything included, but again I just felt that the mouse option was faster. So, it’s more of what is comfortable to you as a gamer. It is nice that they added the controller option for those who like to game with a controller. Overall, I felt it was just less time consuming to use the mouse as oppose to the gamepad.

There where some issues I did experience with the game. At times the game would lag a little bit during transitioning and by a little bit it was like literally like anywhere between 1-5 seconds. Again, it nothing’s that doesn’t render the game unplayable, but some may notice it and so I thought I would bring it up. Another thing was pausing the game. Sometimes when you came back from a pause it would show like the scene had reset, but then fix itself. Again, it was almost like the game was trying to read the last save point that it had saved, so there was some lag with that as well.

The music for the game was okay, I would have liked a little more variety of music for each of the scenes. At times it sounds like the music repeated itself. I do enjoy a good soundtrack and the song was beautiful, but again I do also believe that the song was a little overused. There were also at times where the music seem to dropout. Therefore, I think the different variety in music would have added more, to this beautiful mesmerizing game.

The game took me seven  hours to complete and I manage to miss four of the thirty achievements that the game does offer. However, I was really taken by the game that I don’t mind going back to play it again to recover those four achievements that I missed. So Overall, I think that I will clock about eight to eight and a half hours into the game.  When it comes to trading cards, the game doesn’t have them just yet. I hope that the game does come out with trading cards as I would love to collect them. I usually don’t collect trading cards, but for this game I would.

Overall, My Brother Rabbit is a great game and I highly recommend it. Especially, if you are someone that really enjoys puzzle games and beautiful artwork. The only thing again is I would have loved to see more of a soundtrack to the game, but still this game was amazing. If you would like to play My Brother Rabbit for yourself; you can purchase the game on  Steam, Humble Bundle, PS4 , XB1, Nintendo Switch for $14.99 USD.