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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.8 hrs on record
Posted: 11 Apr, 2020 @ 4:27am
Product received for free

"A Mortician's Tale" is a Cinderella story of an E-girl working as a mortician. Charlie has a goth-like appearance - radical tattoos, black makeup, black long hair and bangs (so we know death is not a phase but a way of living). Although we play as Charlie - she's the most dead and robotic character in the game. She never talks or shows any emotion so it made impossible to be able to relate to her at all. The corpses are livelier than Charlie and they even have a backstory unlike her.
There are a few characters in the game and they talk to you through emails. You can't even reply to them, you only read their rants. Everyday you get an email - a random article about funerals. I don't know how valid those articles are knowing that embalming isn't exactly as they show in the game. We don't even get to plug the cadavers' body parts to prevent leakage.
Some characters:
- Charlie has one "unique" friend by the name of Jen Love - a bisexual redheaded feminist that's obsessed with wearing corsets and loves death. She's a package deal so take it or leave it!

- Amy Rose - Charlie's boss. She's a daughter of the founders of the funeral home. She's always kind to her employees and always sends Charlie a "thank you" note from her clients after the job. Finding it hard to scrap by and eventually decides to sell her family's funeral business to a big corporation.

- Chad Grant - New boss. Very different from Amy Rose - the good olde boss. Formal, striking fear, gives you the spank rather than the tasty treat for job well done. Also, on his very first day he makes up new rules. And they're as follows:
1) Uniform and strict dress code.
2) No tattoos are to be visible. Ensure they are properly covered and hidden. You already can't be buried with any of your Jewish ancestors. What were you thinking?
3) Upsell and sell out. Convince clients to purchase the higher quality package.
4) Convince clients to purchase a premium sandwich and appetizer food package for the funeral. Food is not allowed to be brought in.

- Matthew Jeffrey - Charlie's coworker with dark sense of humour that drops only one forgettable joke in the whole game. He grows very upset with a new management of their funeral home after their boss, Amy Rose, retires. He quits his job to become a school bus driver. He decided it's enough of death in his lifetime. He must be the only relatable character in this game.

There's not much gameplay or a story in the first place, the whole game is 1 long tutorial level. You're just stuck there reading articles and your friends' monologues. The ending was very dull and left me with questions. How did Charlie become her own boss? How did she have the money to buy the funeral home back from the sketchy corporation? Why couldn't her good old boss sell the business to Charlie in the first place?

I give it 1 bag of 🍿
And a paperclip 📎 because I would like Clippy's help on this one.
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3 Comments
Azteckh 12 Apr, 2020 @ 9:40am 
I'm glad I was able to contribute to this glory. Its a honor.
Rock Lobster 12 Apr, 2020 @ 2:42am 
Thanks, finally got the chance to play this art thanks to you!
Azteckh 11 Apr, 2020 @ 7:36pm 
This was a fantastic read.