Just another bad propaganda game – Liyla and The Shadows of War Review

I was put onto this game by Checkpoint and it's interesting history with the Apple store, but my opinion started dropping at the first screen. It said this game is "based on real events," which is a phrase I take with a grain of salt so large it could keep all of the meat in Isreal salted for the next year. Especially since the buttons are apparently not based on real players hands, gravity seems to be based on the moon rather than Earth, and this is a platformer. Also it's hard to get invested in the separation between a father and his daughter when it takes less than 5 seconds to get to where the daughter was when he told her to run away. In the end, even though this game takes only 5 minutes to finish, it's just another propaganda game whose message is lost because the gameplay is so bad.
Review by Mike Farcasin on Liyla and The Shadows of War.