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Although Milkmaid of the Milky Way is entirely pixelated, it manages to capture the same magnificence of nature as films like Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away with much less detail, a feat that I found extremely impressive.
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a rather charmingly delightful point and tap style adventure game. It might not be perfect, but it invokes plenty of memories of the classic adventure games of days gone by. Not bad for a game that offers a far from illustrious beginning.
That beginning has you playing Ruth, a young woman in 1920s Norway, with a fairly unremarkable life. Living alone on a remote farm, her days are full of milking cows and making dairy products out of the results. It’s hardly the stuff that great adventures are made out of, yet it’s still quite appealing.
Early on, that’s pretty much all you’re doing. Cows don’t milk themselves, so you find yourself doing the deed for them, before having a pesky problem with finding the correct handle for churning. Alongside that, you learn how to control things, as well as just how relatively genteel Milkmaid of the Milky Way’s pace is. To add to the charm, all the dialogue and in-game text is written in rhyme. Does it work? Not always, admittedly. Sometimes, it feels a little trite and unnecessary. Other times though, it adds to the charming nature that Milkmaid of the Milky Way is so keen to grab you with. It’s like a little cuddly blanket of cuteness.
It all sounds relatively uneventful so far, but Milkmaid of the Milky Way has a surprise up its sleeve: aliens. Yup, Ruth’s way of life is changed thanks to the arrival of an alien spaceship. It could be pretty threatening, but that’s ok, you’ve already acquired the skills necessary through your earlier puzzle solving abilities. More importantly, you can’t ‘fail’ here. The worst case scenario simply has you stuck with what to do next. It’s all based on your ability to figure things out, rather than your skill level or reactions.
And that’s one of the beauties behind Milkmaid of the Milky Way – its learning curve is pretty smooth and welcoming. I’ve no doubt someone new to the genre could get to grips with things quite well here. Simply tapping an object has you interact with it, while a double tap has you moving quickly to it. By doing so, it circumvents one of the big issues of old adventure games – sluggishness – while still maintaining the traditional charm. Old timers will be reminded of just how delightful pixel art can look, giving them gooey memories of Monkey Island et al.
Puzzles are frequently reasonably challenging but in a well pitched manner. You’ll feel smug about managing to complete them by yourself, but you won’t feel frustrated as you figure out the solution. It’s an ideal mix that ensures smooth sailing. In a similar vein, Milkmaid of the Milky Way offers the right story length too. It’ll take you a few hours to work your way from milk production to sci-fi goings on, keeping your interest in a way that’ll keep you smiling to the end.
It’s very early days in the year, but Milkmaid of the Milky Way still smacks of an adventure game that should be remembered come the end of year roundups. While it doesn’t bother trying to re-invent the wheel, it does an admirable job of sprucing up said old wheel with a 21st Century style twist or two. It’s an easy game to love.
No CommentsMilkmaid of the Milky Way from Machineboy is a pixeltastic minimalist point and click adventure that is now out on Nintendo Switch. Learn more in our Milkmaid of the Milky Way review!
One-person studio Machineboy (Mattis Folkestad) worked on and released Milkmaid of the Milky Way on Steam back in 2017, and this charming game with a story that rhymes is ready to shine on the Nintendo Switch. You will get to play as Ruth, who lives on a farm in a rather remote fjord in 1920s Norway. She has her routine for life, and it works great for her day to day… until a massive golden spaceship arrives out of nowhere. As you can probably guess by now, from that moment on, her life will never be the same.
If you use the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con to control Milkmaid of the Milky Way, you’ll be moving an on-screen cursor (for which you can change its speed in the options menu) with the left or right analog sticks to highlight things to interact with the A button. Any items you collect will be added to your inventory, which you can conveniently access at the bottom of the screen. At first, the inventory will only include your diary (all 24 pages of it), as well as access to the pause menu from which you can save your game, load a save, check the options menu, or review the controls. If you want to make Ruth run somewhere, just press the A button twice. When playing in Portable or Tabletop mode, you’ll get to also control the game with the Nintendo Switch’s touchscreen, pointing with your fingers and tapping to “click.”
The puzzles won’t be very taxing, as they will very have a logical solution. Take, for example, one of the puzzles you will find early in the game. After waking up to start her day, Ruth makes her way to the barn but ends up near a tree. She sees a piece of hanging fruit, but it cannot be obtained as it’s out of reach. If she were to, say, go inside her home and grab a large wooden spoon, she might be able to use that to knock the fruit down from the branch to collect it. Move the cursor over the large wooden spoon in your inventory, press and hold the A button, and drag it on top of the fruit to solve the puzzle – you can also do this with your fingers and the Nintendo Switch’s touchscreen. Who knows, the spoon might have more than one use!
That’s all I’m going to be talking about regarding the puzzles for Milkmaid of the Milky Way since spoiling any more of them would ruin your experience. Rest assured that as long as you leave no stone unturned, you’ll find a way to solve the puzzles as quickly as butter is churned. Oh, and before I forget, I do suggest that you start your journey by reading Ruth’s journal so that you can get a better idea of why she’s still at the farm.
During conversations, Ruth will have three options on the type of answer she can give. For example, one conversation might offer you the possibility to answer in a scared, honest, or straightforward way, while another will have options for replying in a reserved, uncomfortable, or vague way. Each option will have Ruth give a different type of answer – always in rhyme, as is the case for the rest of the story you’ll experience this time. This adds a bit of replay value if you want to see how Ruth replies when selecting every potential option since you can only select one of them. Super stardust hd ps3.
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a gem of a point and click adventure on Nintendo Switch, available at a budget $5.99 that makes it very easy to recommend. This indie release will last you roughly 2-3 hours depending on your experience with the point and click genre, and it’s going to be a fun ride thanks to its solid puzzles and charming story.
Disclaimer
This Milkmaid of the Milky Way review is based on a Nintendo Switch copy provided by Machineboy.
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Although Milkmaid of the Milky Way is entirely pixelated, it manages to capture the same magnificence of nature as films like Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away with much less detail, a feat that I found extremely impressive.
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a rather charmingly delightful point and tap style adventure game. It might not be perfect, but it invokes plenty of memories of the classic adventure games of days gone by. Not bad for a game that offers a far from illustrious beginning.
That beginning has you playing Ruth, a young woman in 1920s Norway, with a fairly unremarkable life. Living alone on a remote farm, her days are full of milking cows and making dairy products out of the results. It’s hardly the stuff that great adventures are made out of, yet it’s still quite appealing.
Early on, that’s pretty much all you’re doing. Cows don’t milk themselves, so you find yourself doing the deed for them, before having a pesky problem with finding the correct handle for churning. Alongside that, you learn how to control things, as well as just how relatively genteel Milkmaid of the Milky Way’s pace is. To add to the charm, all the dialogue and in-game text is written in rhyme. Does it work? Not always, admittedly. Sometimes, it feels a little trite and unnecessary. Other times though, it adds to the charming nature that Milkmaid of the Milky Way is so keen to grab you with. It’s like a little cuddly blanket of cuteness.
It all sounds relatively uneventful so far, but Milkmaid of the Milky Way has a surprise up its sleeve: aliens. Yup, Ruth’s way of life is changed thanks to the arrival of an alien spaceship. It could be pretty threatening, but that’s ok, you’ve already acquired the skills necessary through your earlier puzzle solving abilities. More importantly, you can’t ‘fail’ here. The worst case scenario simply has you stuck with what to do next. It’s all based on your ability to figure things out, rather than your skill level or reactions.
And that’s one of the beauties behind Milkmaid of the Milky Way – its learning curve is pretty smooth and welcoming. I’ve no doubt someone new to the genre could get to grips with things quite well here. Simply tapping an object has you interact with it, while a double tap has you moving quickly to it. By doing so, it circumvents one of the big issues of old adventure games – sluggishness – while still maintaining the traditional charm. Old timers will be reminded of just how delightful pixel art can look, giving them gooey memories of Monkey Island et al.
Puzzles are frequently reasonably challenging but in a well pitched manner. You’ll feel smug about managing to complete them by yourself, but you won’t feel frustrated as you figure out the solution. It’s an ideal mix that ensures smooth sailing. In a similar vein, Milkmaid of the Milky Way offers the right story length too. It’ll take you a few hours to work your way from milk production to sci-fi goings on, keeping your interest in a way that’ll keep you smiling to the end.
It’s very early days in the year, but Milkmaid of the Milky Way still smacks of an adventure game that should be remembered come the end of year roundups. While it doesn’t bother trying to re-invent the wheel, it does an admirable job of sprucing up said old wheel with a 21st Century style twist or two. It’s an easy game to love.
No CommentsMilkmaid of the Milky Way from Machineboy is a pixeltastic minimalist point and click adventure that is now out on Nintendo Switch. Learn more in our Milkmaid of the Milky Way review!
One-person studio Machineboy (Mattis Folkestad) worked on and released Milkmaid of the Milky Way on Steam back in 2017, and this charming game with a story that rhymes is ready to shine on the Nintendo Switch. You will get to play as Ruth, who lives on a farm in a rather remote fjord in 1920s Norway. She has her routine for life, and it works great for her day to day… until a massive golden spaceship arrives out of nowhere. As you can probably guess by now, from that moment on, her life will never be the same.
If you use the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con to control Milkmaid of the Milky Way, you’ll be moving an on-screen cursor (for which you can change its speed in the options menu) with the left or right analog sticks to highlight things to interact with the A button. Any items you collect will be added to your inventory, which you can conveniently access at the bottom of the screen. At first, the inventory will only include your diary (all 24 pages of it), as well as access to the pause menu from which you can save your game, load a save, check the options menu, or review the controls. If you want to make Ruth run somewhere, just press the A button twice. When playing in Portable or Tabletop mode, you’ll get to also control the game with the Nintendo Switch’s touchscreen, pointing with your fingers and tapping to “click.”
The puzzles won’t be very taxing, as they will very have a logical solution. Take, for example, one of the puzzles you will find early in the game. After waking up to start her day, Ruth makes her way to the barn but ends up near a tree. She sees a piece of hanging fruit, but it cannot be obtained as it’s out of reach. If she were to, say, go inside her home and grab a large wooden spoon, she might be able to use that to knock the fruit down from the branch to collect it. Move the cursor over the large wooden spoon in your inventory, press and hold the A button, and drag it on top of the fruit to solve the puzzle – you can also do this with your fingers and the Nintendo Switch’s touchscreen. Who knows, the spoon might have more than one use!
That’s all I’m going to be talking about regarding the puzzles for Milkmaid of the Milky Way since spoiling any more of them would ruin your experience. Rest assured that as long as you leave no stone unturned, you’ll find a way to solve the puzzles as quickly as butter is churned. Oh, and before I forget, I do suggest that you start your journey by reading Ruth’s journal so that you can get a better idea of why she’s still at the farm.
During conversations, Ruth will have three options on the type of answer she can give. For example, one conversation might offer you the possibility to answer in a scared, honest, or straightforward way, while another will have options for replying in a reserved, uncomfortable, or vague way. Each option will have Ruth give a different type of answer – always in rhyme, as is the case for the rest of the story you’ll experience this time. This adds a bit of replay value if you want to see how Ruth replies when selecting every potential option since you can only select one of them. Super stardust hd ps3.
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a gem of a point and click adventure on Nintendo Switch, available at a budget $5.99 that makes it very easy to recommend. This indie release will last you roughly 2-3 hours depending on your experience with the point and click genre, and it’s going to be a fun ride thanks to its solid puzzles and charming story.
Disclaimer
This Milkmaid of the Milky Way review is based on a Nintendo Switch copy provided by Machineboy.