LOOM

I've always been a big fan of adventure games. Growing up, I would watch my father play them on our old IBM Compatible PC. He would play them and then when he beat them, he'd let my sisters and I play them. I grew up playing classics like the Quest collection from Sierra (King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest) and others like Leisure Suit Larry and Quest of the Longbow. I never really imagined that there were other games like them not made by Sierra.

Fast forward about 20 years. I'm sitting at home and I'm angry and upset for some reason. My husband decides to brighten my day by gifting me this game on STEAM.

You start off as this guy, Bobbin Threadbare, who has to go down to speak with the Elders about something. Then he finds out he is abandoned because he is special and one of the Elders named Mother Hetchel decides to help him.

You travel to many awesome places. Like....

A cool huge tent that has pillars! (the opening to it is a tent... and apparently the rest of it is underground... or something)

It also has many different tapestries.

You get to travel on the ocean with only a tree as a raft.

And get to see some green city called ... Crystalguard. Or something like that.

Anyways, the staff on the bottom of the screen is Bobbin's staff that he found at the beginning of the game. With this staff, he can weave objects around him to do different useful things. In order to do this, the objects give him a tiny little melody. The game shows the melody on the stick, ah-like so:

The voice acting is awesome and the storyline is pretty good. I wish I had played this game sooner! As a music educator, my ear training came in handy for the little melodies, but I still wrote them down so I could look back on them later. I am sure had I played this when I was a kid, I would have absolutely loved it!

It's a very pretty game and for $5, you really can't beat it. Entertaining story, great music by Tchaikovsky, and wonderful voice acting. I also didn't have too much trouble with the game mechanics (you really just use the mouse to click on items or where to go so it isn't confusing or hard to learn). Definitely recommended to play!