Aery – Calm Mind

I bought this game because it came up on a list when I searched for non-violent games (needed it for a spot on my bingo card.) Ever since I was young, I’d always hang out the window in the car, feeling the wind rush past me and wondering what it would be like to be a bird. In this game, you play as a bird collecting feathers across multiple worlds. I need more calm in my life, after all. It’s a casual, simple game.

It’s supposed to be calming and relaxing… It’s feckin infuriating. The first level is deceiving because it’s pretty, runs smoothly and it is, in fact, quite relaxing. If only the whole game was like that… Half the levels have shitty frame rate – like markiplier-playing-hand-sim bad frames. It was so bad that I could barely move. Had to restart the game a few times and it still didn’t fix it.