Gretel and Hansel Part 2 is just how I like my point'n'click games: short, curious and sinister, like some kind of... really short... sinister... private detective. I'm sorry, I think I'm out of simile credits.Alec wrote about Part 1 of this indie retelling of the Hansel & Gretel story when it was released almost a year ago, calling it "lovely, in a vaguely malevolent way."…
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This is very lovely, in a vaguely malevolent way. It's a narrative puzzle game of minimal dialogue and hand-painted graphics, a little in the vein of Samorost. Hansel is an idle, blinkered boy-child, and Gretel his industrious, concerned sister. She feels it's imperative to escape their angry, abusive mother (and subjugated father), and thus puzzling begins. The puzzles are simple but thoughtful, and as a…