Cirwen

C

For a seasoned time management player it's on the easy side (the main difficulty comes from how close the ingredients are to each other, making it really easy to misclick), but I had fun anyway. It was great for the nights I was a bit too tired for something really challenging, but wanted a game like this anyways. I could have done without the mini-games - after every two levels is a bit much - but they truly were mini and didn't really get in the way.

I love the way the story is handled in expert mode, how the characters are *also* doing that same journey again and either drawing on things that happened in the previous run or commenting on the similarities (too bad they weren't able to keep that up for all levels). I didn't really notice a change in difficulty until level 19, where something new is added which definitely ups the difficulty rating. It's the first time I had to retry a level to get the perfect score.

Finally: the change in difficulty between story/expert mode and the challenges is ridiculous. They truly are challenging!

I flew through this (about 3.5 hours for story mode, 5 for expert mode, 2 for the challenges and then half an hour in the endless mode to get the final two achievements).