Chionophile

After "Dear Ester" I wanted to get more into 'artsy' games. Budur's "Bottle" was the first of his games that I played - I didn't like it too much to be honest. "Chionophile" has a promissing beginning. In fact, when playing the first chapter I was set on writing a positive review. The game is linear in the beginning and leads you along a straight pth from which you cannot stray too much. The quotes are set at points where they cannot be missed and the music is amazing. Chapter 2 beginns with a random loading screen when you step over some sort of border (immersion ruined, thank you!) and is more of an open map. There are three flowers and poem parts to find as well as random other quotes. Finding the damn flowers was chore and so annoying I almost wanted to quit. You don't walk around, explore and enjoy the world around you, no, you are trying to run to where the last flower could be because ever path is blocked by some sort of stone. The second chapter is a more frustrating than enjoyable experience and sadly take up more time in this game. The very last scene was very beautiful and nice to look at/ experience but the majority of the game was just not fun :/