The Silver Lining was hyped and desired by many fans to a great degree, but I hope episode one is just the prologue.
The main problem with this episode is that it doesn't actually have any puzzles to solve. It basically just sets up the story and doesn't give the player anything exciting to do. Throughout this episode all you do is collect three items and go to two islands. That's it. Even though you use two of the items, the way in which you use them is so obvious you end up feeling that you didn't actually do anything but walk around, which basically is all you do for this short half an hour to twenty minute episode.
Although this episode has almost nothing to do, it is still decent. As long as the other four episodes have puzzles and other things for the player to solve, this episode is excusable. The game looks beautiful for a fan made game and the music is terrific. The story telling is excellent but sometimes you wish the narrator, who speaks when you take or look at something, would just shut up. This episode feels like a grand magical fairytale and that feeling is the only thing that makes this episode work. Overall, this episode is a great setup for the rest of the episodes, but if they are all like this, then The Silver Lining will be remembered as a complete disaster with nothing good about it.
Plot: 4/5
I won't spoil anything, but it needs to expand to the degree that this episode makes it appear that it will. The voice acting is great.
Game Play: 1/5
There is nothing to do in this episode really but walk around.
Length: 1/5
Ridiculously short. The length of this episode is, as stated above, twenty to thirty minutes long.
Graphics: 4/5
Great for a fan made game. The only problem is how some of the characters' faces look when they speak, etc.