What is Mike has an interesting premise and up until near the end it executes it pretty well but the endings leave a bit to be desired. My initial play through where I got one of the hero endings just ends with no explanation of what came after or if I even made the right choice. Even the other ending I got, while explaining things better, doesn’t attempt to make any of this make sense.What is Mike has an interesting premise and up until near the end it executes it pretty well but the endings leave a bit to be desired. My initial play through where I got one of the hero endings just ends with no explanation of what came after or if I even made the right choice. Even the other ending I got, while explaining things better, doesn’t attempt to make any of this make sense. There could be a lot more context and back story. As is I have too many unanswered questions to be satisfied and while some games I can say that it’s alright to leave things to mystery when your game is this short then it is all just mystery. The music was very creepy and help set the mood nicely and the art has a nice style to it.
I played Who is Mike on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any bugs or spelling mistakes. You can save whenever you want and there are 48 save slots. Alt-Tab didn’t work.
Graphics Engine: Ren’Py 6.99.7.858
Graphics API: OpenGL
Disk Space Used: 164 MB
GPU Usage: 0-45 %
VRAM Usage: 538-663 MB
CPU Usage: 5-10 %
RAM Usage: 3.2-3.4 GB
I really did enjoy the first bit of the game but it wasn’t able to keep the momentum going. There is a lot left unexplained and the endings didn’t leave me satisfied. I was able to see 2 endings in 26 minutes of play. The game is free but there are a lot of quality free visual novels out there so it’s tough to recommend Who is Mike.
My Score: 6.5/10
My System:
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 21.2.6 | Linux Mint 20.3 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 5.4.0-104-generic… Expand
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