1000xRESIST

Most well written story ever. Play.

Отличная история на 10 с небольшим часов

Visual Novel, no action involved. Lots of walking. Good music, Good story. Story has a few missing obscure points. Starts slow and uninteresting, finishes deeply, branching and dramatically. 6/10 personally as I like more action in my games. 8/10 for gamers that like Storytelling Visual novels.

tl;dr: god forbid women do anything wrong This is a weird game. It is pretty good overall, but is not without its faults. I'm not going to touch on specific spoilers in this review, but I am going to talk about plot structure in a way that might be considered spoiler-adjacent, so if that's not your thing, there's your heads up. I really, REALLY liked this game for the first like, two thirds of it. The game has a solid hook, taking things from 0-100 near-instantly, that left me intensely curious as to how the plot would go. At first I was worried that the game played its hand too early, but as it went on, I became increasingly convinced that the writers knew what they were doing. Eventually, that plot reaches its climax, stops, and the game continues with a sort of new plot. At this point when I was playing the game, my natural reaction was something like, "Oh damn, the game isn't over? How are they possibly going to top that?" And the answer is that they kinda just don't. The rest of the game is okay and does have some really good moments in its own right, but at a point where it feels like everything should be barrelling towards an explosive conclusion, the game slams the brakes, tries to start building tension again, and then never really reaches that same level of explosiveness in the first climax. Instead, it chooses to provide more backstory, and then ends in a way that didn't feel really satisfying. I felt like that was pretty disappointing. There are also various technical problems (FPS being tied to object physics in a way that results in buggy, seizure-inducing flashing and hyperspeed animations); overall graphical fidelity really isn't great and is more something I would expect out of a Switch 1 game; there are lots of instances of clipping on character outfits and z-fighting on terrain; and the low FOV, combined with a "smooth" swing applied to the camera, caused me motion sickness probably six times throughout my playthrough. The worst part of this game, so bad that it deserves its own paragraph, is the level design of the Orchard, which is basically the game's main location/hub area. It is the worst video game map I have ever had the displeasure of navigating. This is not an exaggeration or a bit for the review. Genuinely, I have never hated a video game map more than the Orchard. It is a confusing sprawl with a layout that makes no sense, and the map you are provided for this area is a literal crayon drawing. (That's not a joke either.) Whoever designed the Orchard, please never cook such poison ever again. BUT -- and this is hugely important -- I paid like 15 Canadian dollars for this game, and this is apparently this studio's first game. If this were a full-priced release I would care much more about all of these problems, but for $15, sure, I'll accept them as part of the studio's growing pains. The reason I enjoyed this game is because the character writing, plot, and cutscene direction are fantastic. This game uses cinematic shots in cutscenes *constantly* and it is all the better for it. You will see camera angles used in a way no other game even tries. It feels kind of lame to write all about my issues with the game and provide so little on what I enjoyed, but I don't want to spoil it; go play for yourself, it's cheap. Even if I don't think this game is quite the masterpiece a lot of other reviews say it is, this was still really solid, especially for the devs' first game.

At first, I didn't love the level design, but the story was interesting and I was curious to see where it went. 1000xRESIST just gets better with every act, bit by bit, piece by piece, until everything falls into place. While streaming it to some friends, they pointed out that it did a lot of stuff I did in my own games, and I was grinning like an idiot going "I know, I love it." So, hey, I'm biased, I see explorations of form in the way I like to do it, of COURSE I have an affinity for that. I think 1000xRESIST deserves all the awards it got and then some. You should play it.

Couldn't continue playing due to the map from hell, navigating it made me want to jump off a bridge. Story seemed pretty interesting, so it's unfortunate.

Light on gameplay but very heavy on story. 1000xRESIST has incredible writing, with complete mastery of plot twists that somehow manage to feel both shocking and well-earned every step of the way. The game surprised me at literally every turn yet every time I realised that the pieces had already been shown to me beforehand. Huge recommendation for anyone who's a fan of visual novels, walking sims or any other format where story takes a heavy lead over gameplay