While A Space for the Unbound has a heavy focus on narrative and involves a lot of decision making and clicking, its main gameplay loop comes from puzzles and mini games. What will he find out about what lies beneath the surface of his once normal town? And will he find it before something happens to Raya? They create a bucket list together and go about crossing off each item, but it seems Atma’s dreams are getting stranger and his powers given by the Magic Red Book are growing stronger. And then he wakes up in a classroom, at his desk, with a girl named Raya talking to him and claiming to be his girlfriend. Its writing is just amazing too, for someone who’s also been into Indonesian literature recently, with the writing feeling super Tere Eeve but has the grounds to stand on its own, thanks to its characters, both Atma and Raya, being two incredible vessels to this story and world.Once he does, he continues to help Nirmala until finally it’s time to meet at the river and he finds that the girl has fallen in. Nothing really resonates with my high school life more than this game (fun fact: it’s been a decade since I graduated high school lol), mostly due to its settings being in Southeast Asia, with the same time setting for my schooling days, so this speaks to me more than the usual JRPG school stuff.Īnd from the get-go, I was fully invested due to its incredible introduction scene with the Sky Princess. It might not be a perfect game but it strives on the imperfections of the world to make its narrative more relatable than one would assume. A Space For The Unbound is a pretty good 10-hour romp that will pull on your emotional cords fairly well.Ī story that brings together characters that might not even feel interconnected until a moment when it just clicks. There are even many different cats you can pet and give out names to, which you can see around the game’s town area doing cat things (besides being an important story point), so there’s that aspect as well.Īltogether, it is a delight playing this game as it unravels itself into something complex that perhaps has some pacing issues (looking at you, letter collection quest), but fits together well enough for the story to shine. There are many sprinkled around the game which forms a nice side-activity to do as you enjoy the main story bit. It’s quite a simple mechanic that actually ties in both worlds as some puzzles would require items from the outside world to solve Spacedive puzzles, a pretty unique way to combine both elements into one story within the game.Īnd it’s not an adventure game without some mini-games sprinkled in, like the Street Fighter parody where you have to mash combos to defeat enemies in the parody game and even during some enemy encounters. Not much to say since it’s on paper, a point-and-click adventure title where you play as Atma, a high-school boy who has a special book which he can go inside the souls of a person via Spacedive, a mechanic where you dive inside a person to mend their issues internally and make them better from the outside world. So no complaints from this department either. UI-wise, it does its job fine, as you would expect from an adventure game, which scales rather well from a monitor to a small screen like the Switch’s screen. You can tell how the story will go from the start of the first scene within the prologue, a great music and scene setter before the main show. It fills the world with the charm that many would find interesting to stick around.Īnd while there’s no voice acting per se, the music does carry itself to highlight the lighter side of the game, or even during the more emotional bits that make the scene more memorable for me. The pixel art design is quite vibrant, with emoticons being used to show emotions, making it quite inviting for the players to join in on this quirky slice of life from a small Indonesian town, filled with stuff like a road-side Bakso stall to a local arcade cafe (which is an actual thing!). One that’s filled with anguish that compliments the main arc of the story fairly well.Įssentially, even if you’re only reading this part of the review, this game is a must-play is what I’m saying. This is one of the few that had me emotional by the end of the prologue, mind you.Ī Space For The Unbound is a roller-coaster of an adventure game, with the joy of everyday school life from the perspective of our main protagonist, Atma, and his girlfriend, Raya. In all my years of covering games, only a coveted few games’ stories have pulled onto the heartstrings and brought tears to this reviewer.
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