Do You Remember My Lullaby

"Do you remember my lullaby?" is a slow-paced non-interactive rpg maker movie, of about half an hour length. Yes, a movie. You watch people go about their lives, with little dialogue involved and generally little happening onscreen.

It portrays divorce, poverty and a little bittersweet story of a special day. Alternating between a woman raising her son alone, and her son visiting his father's house.

Now this is a mixed bag for me. I can enjoy a lack of interactivity very well, and while I appreciated the story in itself, I found it simply too drawn out. It was slow, very slow, very very slow, with the outcome obvious and with the portrayel being basic above all else.

You have a lot of repetitions going on. You see our protagonist walking around a lot, doing housechores and such - and while that makes for a nice flavour, seeing her do it again and again each scene, when we already have the impression of her and have already seen love to detail, is not adding anything anymore.

There are great touches to be seen - like indications of a swift conversation in passing, avoiding bumping into a person, cleaning around the house and all that.
The dialogue that is shown is on-spot and gives enough information to follow and a great deal of flavour.
The mapping is beautiful, and so is the main-theme. The main theme is a lullaby, something played by an old treasured music box, repeated in whistles and with many variations. Although I admit, over the course of the game it became a little bit old and grating on the ear.


Happy Christmas story, go!

It is a sad story, but we can sum it up in about three sentences - and putting that into 30 minutes is just too little in my opinion. Not to mention that there would have been plenty to add about circumstances surrounding the event, surrounding the divorce.

I think people curious can give it a shot, but I find it hard to really recommend this one. I have been growing up with my mother and I found the way the boy treated his mother a little bit annoying as he lacks the respect (as he knocks her away, ignores her errand to give his father a letter among other things). Which probably gave it a slightly different note to me than intended.

There is a minigame unlockeable afterwards, but it does not really add anything much.

Slow. Bittersweet. And then sad.
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