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Currently Playing: Life's Too Short

What Is It? 30 minute adventure game where you are a little spooky ghost and you need to get two vampires to stop fighting

Gameplay Overview: Have you played a short adventure game before? Like maybe on Newgrounds back in the day? One of those super simple adventure games someone made during their first attempt at game design and were just happy to get something out there? This is one of those.

Here's The Game Page! https://play.date/games/lifes-too-short/

Here's Some Pictures!
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Thoughts:
-So there are actually THREE Lifes Too Short games. The flagship franchise of the Playdate!
-Looking at the pictures, this looks like another very simple adventure game. Lets see if it can beat out the last very simple adventure game I played.
-A little ghost answers a mysterious call You mean an ADORABLE ghost. He is little and pretty cute for being like two pixels.
-Now you arrive at a spooky mansionto help mend a broken home Not how I thought that sentence was going to end, I got to be honest.
-A little Frankenstein's creature thing greets me at the door and asks for my help getting the two of them to stop fighting. Theyve both locked themselves in their coffins so Im guessing the two I need to bring back together are VAMPIRES. Spooky.
-Frankenstein butler tells me there is a colorful cast of characters here willing to help. ILL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT.
-Im dot e body eee dought n ny eeth! Ok gotta find teeth for the bear rug. Got it.
-Damn. There are spiders in the kitchen that the ghost is afraid of. I guess even ghosts are afraid of creepy crawlies.
-The library room has a suit of armor with five gem holes in the armor. I wonder what I can put in there?
-So many locked doors in this mansion. Hopefully this ghost has a keyring.
-The cupboard is locked too??!? These vampires are not a very trusting couple.
-Theres either a witch outside of a window or a poster of a witch thats coughing. I thought it was a poster, but Ive never met a poster with congestion issues.
-It clearly wants a cough drop but all Ive found so far is one gem on the bookshelves. Strangely that isnt fixing her cough.
-I do find one of the vampires. Hes mad his vampire wife is nagging him to clean the kitchen and feed the dog. Those are crazy simple chores, dude. Tell me where your dog is and Ill feed it.
-Also hey Im a ghost why do I need to use doorknobs? Can't I just phase through doors? These locked doors should be the least of my concerns.
-The bathroom has a bunch of stuff in it! A monster in the bathtub! Cough medicine in the medicine cabinet! Something gross in the toilet! Typical bathroom stuff, I guess.
-The monster thing wants me to catch it ten flying rodents with a net. Its hungry and luckily doesnt want to eat a ghost. Phew.
-I give the witch her cough medicine and she hands over her broom. Thanks? Would you happen to have four other gems instead?
-I broom the hell out of those jerk ass spiders. Never stood a chance. NOW WHOS SCARY?
-This kitchen is a gold mine! I find a blender, a cleaning rag, milk, and cheese. Trying to blend the milk and cheese into an ultimate weapon against the lactose intolerant doesnt work, sadly.
-The cheese catches a mouse, which I try to feed to the monster. Sorry, I know Im ruthlessly murdering a mouse here but the dude vampire is a big old baby who doesnt want to clean the kitchen. You understand, I'm sure.
-The monster doesnt want the mouse. Damn. Now what am I going to do with a mouse?
-I try to give the mouse to the bear rug. It doesnt work, but I get another line of dialogue and from this one I can figure out theres something stuck in his teeth, not that hes missing teeth. What a dummy I am.
-I find the kitchen now that I have a key. It is indeed a mess. I want to go yell at the vampire again to get off his ass and do something, but that isnt an option so I use the dishrag to clean up all theblood stains? Something gross, Im sure.
-Well I clean up the table and a door in back opens. That never happens when I clean my kitchen.
-Ah okay so back here is a dog which chases me back into the dining room right away. Yknow, as a ghost, I am kinda a baby about corporeal things.
-The knife I grab from the table lets me pry out a key from the bear rug mouth. Silly bear rug. Keys are not for eating! Not sure why I couldnt just grab this but whatever!
-OH WHAT THE HELL
-I use the mouse in the blender just to expirement and it works! I make a blood smoothie. Poor mouse
-You know, all this mouseicide couldve been avoided if the vampire just cleaned the damn kitchen himself.
-The vampire doesnt even want the mouse smoothie! He says hes vegan
-I killed a mouse for nothing. II was the real monster all along!
-I use the small key to open up the closet in one of the rooms only to findskeletons! Literal skeletons in the closet! get it? I thought it was cute.
-They do a fake BADUMTISH at their stupid skeleton jokes too. Hes my new favorite character, just above talking bear rug and asshole vampire.
-So the funny bone from the skeleton manages to distract the dog so I can go into his doghouse and collect ten bats. THIS is what I need to feed to the monster. I feel less bad than the mouse, though, since these things are definitely rabid. Im basically a hero.
-I go into the greenhouse and pick up the only tomato inside. The game calls me a monster for that. Game, we crossed that bridge one mouse smoothie ago.
-Okay, magpie distracted with the fork (duh) and gem got. I feel like at this point Im just going to give a bunch of stuff to a bunch of people and win.
-Yep, called it! Give bats to the guy, put tomato in the blender, use gems on the knight, and then give girl vampire who was behind the knight the mouse smoothie and the whiny dude vampire the tomato cocktail. And thats it!
-Cute little ending where they thank everyone. THE END
-Ill give it points for being cute, at least! It is one of these incredibly simple adventure game youd find on Newgrounds circa 2003 though that lasts roughly 30 minutes (if that!).
-Well uh now what am I going to do for the rest of the night? Read? Like a nerd? (Yes, I am going to read)

Time Played: I think 30 minutes but I'm sure it was closer to like 24 and I'm just rounding up.
High Score: Ten bats caught. One mouse smoothie-fied.
Beaten? Yes
Grade: Maybe a four? Like a low four. It is not hugely impressive but it has just enough charm and personality that I wouldn't say its straight up bad and is more meh. But it's borderline so I dunno. Gotta mull it over.
Favorite Part So Far: The skeletons in the closet! Skeleton in the closet nominated for Playdate character of the year whatever year this came out, please.