Last Day of June

Last Day of June is a personal and emotional journey that brings you to the most beautiful corners of love and the darkest and most painful corners of loss at the same time. It’s a compelling journey, with relatable characters within a beautiful world, brought to life with a sensational score. But ultimately, it’s uninspired, core ground-hog day gameplay loop hinders and undermines everything that has been built around it.

Last Day of June succeeds when it doesn't focus specifically on the love story of Carl and June, but rather on their entire community and the way they confront mortality and fate.

Last Day of June is a game that you will certainly enjoy while you play it. However, the lackluster ending ensures that it will not stay with you long after you’ve completed it. The small and compact story is perfectly told until this point, and the simplicity of the puzzles does not detract from the pleasing gameplay. It’s a shame that the developers did not take a chance with the ending in the same way they did with the art direction.

The Last Day of June is an emotional, gentle puzzle, where you must live one sunny afternoon over and over again to try and avert tragedy. It doesn't feel especially new, but it'll still probably make you a bit teary.

I began the game thinking this was something completely different than my expectation lead me to believe. Shortly after the intro moments, when I realized that The Last Day of June wasn’t a title about the end of summer but the last day of a person’s life, the reality set in that this was going to be an emotional rollercoaster, and it surely is.

Last Day of June paints a world that is visually beautiful on the surface and darker at its core, but its emotional story loses luster quickly. While some narrative twists drew me in nearing its conclusion, I never connected enough with the story and felt distracted by its repetitive nature.

Last Day of June is a beautiful presentation of a heart-wrenching tale that is hindered by less-than-stellar game mechanics. It should be noted Last Day of June was partially designed to appeal to people who don’t regularly play video games. It succeeds as a story and as an interactive work of art, but as a game there are some mechanics that could have benefited from some further tweaking.

Can a game based on Steven Wilson's Drive Home use its great art direction to make up for lacking design? Or does repetition make it feel like you've played through one too many last days?

The true test for any game of this kind is whether it can keep player hungry enough to see it through to the end. Although I wasn’t completely enthralled (the repetitive puzzles and a couple of bugs broke my immersion) it still managed to lodge its hooks in me and I’d be lying if I said those final moments didn’t make me feel anything. Last Day of June is a emotive, sometimes enchanting story of love and loss that, while it doesn’t break new ground, will resonate with plenty of gamers out there.

Last Day of June is a game that we strongly recommend you "experience". Thanks to an exciting story, an effective soundtrack, and an extremely beautiful art style, Ovosonico's new work goes straight to the heart and gives the game an immense strength via the very human issues it portrays.

Last Day of June is a beautiful rumination on the ways death and fate are indelibly intertwined. It's also a competent puzzler with a winning sense of style. Repetitiveness and a slightly predictable structure stymie the proceedings somewhat, but never enough to ruin what is an otherwise lovely experience.

A simplistic tale dealing with the most complex of human emotions. Have a box of tissues at the ready, as Last Day of June punches you right in the kidneys.

Efímera y no demasiado variada en su propuesta y mecánicas de juego, Last Day of June consigue sobreponerse a dichos inconvenientes planteando una trama que llega a tocar nuestra fibra sensible. Además su estética es inconfundible y algunos de los muchos puzles que nos invita a superar tienen bastante miga. No es la panacea de las aventuras gráficas pero, a pesar de eso, es uno de esos títulos que tiene buenos momentos. Corto pero intenso.

Last Day of June tiene a su favor el hecho de haber logrado convertir a la diminuta localidad en la que transcurre la acción en un puzle con el juego de las puertas y en conseguir que las historias menores de los personajes conformen un rompecabezas global. Juega muy bien a ese doble nivel, pero en el apartado de los debe hay que apuntar la de tiempo muerto que hay entre cargas y escenas que no puedes saltar.

Es un proceso cíclico y, por extensión, repetitivo, que tiene mucho en común con el trastorno de estrés postraumático y con los períodos de duelo marcados por una muerte particularmente inesperada.Pero el nivel de intensidad de The Last Day of June no es tan alto, ni la inmersión es tan profunda, como para hacer más asumible esa invitación poco recompensada a revivir algunas escenas, algo de lo que hasta el propio juego parece consciente al marcarse algunas elipsis al principio de algunos recuerdos ya explorados.

Last Day of June es, como todos esperábamos, una de las historias más emotivas e intensas de lo que va de año. El trabajo de Guirini le asienta como un creador muy preocupado por contar y transmitir historias a partir de sencillas mecánicas asequibles para cualquier jugador.

Last Day of June no pasará a la historia como una aventura memorable, pero eso no quiere decir que no sea una experiencia disfrutable, sobre todo para aquellos seguidores de este estilo interactivo. Su preciosista dirección visual, inspirada en películas como Frankenweenie o James y el melocotón gigante, utiliza de forma soberbia el motor Unity para ofrecernos un espacio interactivo de calidez pictórica y decididos trazos de color.

Last Day of June es una aventura interactiva original, conmovedora y humana. Un juego maduro en el que todos los elementos, que por separado no dirían nada, encajan perfectamente para hilar la historia. No es un juego de risas y felicidad, pero sí de emociones.

Eine emotionale Spielerfahrung rund um Liebe und Verlust, der es an Abwechslung und einem höheren Rätselanspruch fehlt.

Last Day of June a une magnifique histoire à raconter, certes malheureuse, mais tendre et touchante. En touchant à des thèmes comme la perte d’un être cher (et ceci sous différente forme), le studio Ovosonico parvient à nous faire ressentir le vide et la mélancolie sans pour autant nous noyer dans des tableaux de désespoir.

Si cela correspond aux standards pour un jeu indépendant de ce calibre, on aurait aimé pouvoir continuer l’aventure encore un peu plus longtemps et quelques puzzles supplémentaires n'auraient pas été de refus. Néanmoins, la durée de vie du jeu reste amplement suffisante et permet de vivre une aventure riche en émotion.

Last Day of June fait partie de ces oeuvres qui peuvent bouleverser le joueur comme le laisser totalement indifférent. Tout dépend en réalité de ce que vous êtes venus y chercher. Si ce qui vous botte, ce sont les énigmes tordues qui sollicitent longuement votre matière grise, passez votre chemin.

Questa volta Ovosonico ha colpito nel segno. Nella sua semplicità, Last Day of June è un'avventura efficace, in grado di coniugare come si deve la parte narrativa e quella ludica, intrecciandole senza nemmeno avere la necessità di doversi aggrappare ai dialoghi o all'espressività dei personaggi per trasmettere il proprio messaggio.

Last Day of June è un titolo ispirato e coraggioso, che sceglie di seguire temi particolari usando il silenzio anziché le parole. La musica di Steven Wilson dà voce alle situazioni e accompagna perfettamente personaggi senza volto ma capaci di una espressività notevole. Il paesino che fa da sfondo alle vicende è un vero e proprio quadro vivente, animato dai toni caldi che mi aspetterei di trovarvi se dovessi visitarlo dal vero e abitanti che non potrebbero vivere altrove se non lì.