I love this concept a lot, and for the most part I think it was pretty well-executed! But I found the navigation got pretty frustrating after a while, and in the end I wound up looking at the map on the portfolio website to get the last few spirits. Mostly because it was really easy to miss the exact point on the screen you needed to hover over to find a zoom-in point. I'm not sure what the best way to make that more easily-navigate-able would be without taking away from the exploration of the game, but I think that would help.
Otherwise, though, it reminded me quite a bit of the kind of things I do for fun, going out and looking for bugs and interesting plants and things to photograph in the real world :-) . I really liked that aspect of it, looking for bits of hiding places in habitat in a landscape where people would overlook it otherwise. Love to see that!
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