I saw this game for the first time a couple days ago when I saw jacksepticeye play it and I fell in love with it. The game is as perfectly crafted as it can be, it has so many unique aspects that make it play wonderfully and I love it.



GRAPHICS: 9/10



The game looks really nice, and has an amazing are style. All of the scenery is full of color nd the style makes it come to life. I think the characters could have been designed just a bit better, but those are good as well and the regular animations are amazing as well. For instance, during the credits near the beginning, the animations and designs flow really well and the moving style makes me think of games like Don't Starve and Little Inferno, which both look great.



SOUND: 9/10



The sound is one of the best aspects of the game because its so spot on. The biggest part of the sound is the voices, such as the ones of Death and the narrator. All of the narrators dialogue is amazing, full of clever and funny lines and his talking makes it feel like you're playing the Stanley Parable. The other random sounds of the game such as the effects and music are also very good.



ADDICTIVENESS: 10/10



All the different aspects come together perfectly to make sure that the game looks, sounds, and feels amazing. What exactly is the game about? You're given full control over Sams body, and have to control every little action whether its blinking and breathing, standing up straight, walking step by step, and even brushing his teeth. Not only is this concept really clever and unique, its also really fun to go through everything as well as the story. On top of that, the clever dialogue and jokes of all the characters adds so much more to how addictive this game can get.



STORY: 10/10



The story IMO is wonderful. Im not going to give away too much, but the game starts with the main character, Sam, dying. Dying a very slow, painful, and cringy death. After the credits roll, Sam winds up in hell where he meets death. He makes a deal with death that if he can go a whole day doing every single action manually, he gets to be brought back to life again. (Only until he dies again, so bad luck if he dies after like 2 more days.)



You know how you normally don't think about blinking and breathing? Or moving your arms or even legs with each step? How would it be if you not only knew you were doing each action, but also had to actually do the action yourself. That's what the story is about, see if you can last a whole day playing the game and trying to remember to blink, breath, and keep your spine straight.



DEPTH: 7/10



The game isn't extremely long and there isn't any room to do things outside the set actions that the game wants you to do to progress the story, but that doesn't matter because there's still a lot. If anything, the humongous amount of awesome dialogue plays a huge role in the depth of the game. It's not a whole lot of depth, but what is there is still really good.



DIFFICULTY: 4



The game is not really hard. All you have to do is remember what button to press for what action and when to press it. The only actions that might seem difficult would be remembering to do some repetitive tasks like breathing and blinking, along with actions like peeing, because you need to be very precise with when you press the button. Overall, the game is fairly easy, you just need to pay attention to Sams body and the surrounding environment.



OVERALL: 9.2/10



Overall, this game is very clever and unique and it uses all sorts of different techniques to make sure it stands out from other games. Like i had mentioned earlier, the game looks, sounds, and feels just fantastic. The game is pretty cheap, it's $10 which I think is pretty worth it for the experience. Overall the game is really well made and my grade for Manual Samuel is going to be a 9.2 out of 10.