Rain on your parade game review12/25/2022 ![]() ![]() As the game rolls on (like, well, a cloud), your objectives get a fair bit more diverse and require at least a little puzzle-solving and exploration a school-based level is an early highlight, seeing you undertake multiple disparate objectives as a pleasant preview of the more complex demands to come. However, despite the whole thing feeling a touch lacking, Rain On Your Parade absolutely isn’t without merit. It’s all very twee and affected in a wearyingly familiar sort of way. In fact, we found the tone and writing of the thing a little bit… what is it the kids say now? Oh, yes – cringe. Despite these, there’s never a whole lot to it and we got the impression that the aesthetics and humorous writing are intended to fill in the blanks. ![]() Later, you’re also able to create a tornado, blanket the world in snow and unleash lightning strikes. There’s a water metre on the right of the screen that empties as you do the same, but it can be refilled (on certain levels) by hovering over a source of moisture (usually water, but you're also able to rain poison, oil and other substances). Moving with the analogue stick, you press and hold 'A' to rain. Mostly, it’s just a little bit boring, in much the same manner as a wet weekend. Our problem is that we found it all came across as rather uninspired in its execution and occasionally downright irritating in its presentation. Things are complicated by the erratic ( not erotic) reactions of the “hoomans” you happen to rain upon, and their interaction with the physics that can cause objects you need to soak to get kicked off-screen in a panic, or otherwise simply get in the way of your cloudy goals. Each short single-player stage sees you given one or more objectives, usually along the lines of “soak X” or “don’t soak X”. You take control of a rain cloud and, er, rain on stuff. It so desperately needs to be that quirky breakout hit, the virtual talk of the water cooler, the “have you seen that cloud game?” game, spawn of a trillion thinkpieces. ![]() Rain On Your Parade wants very much to be the next Untitled Goose Game. ![]()
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