About Elise

Игра 'About Elise' - это короткая, но впечатляющая визуальная новелла, которая трогает до глубины души. История о девушке по имени Элиза, переживающей личные трудности и ищущей утешение, оставляет после себя сильное послевкусие. Простота графики и минималистичный интерфейс лишь подчеркивают глубину повествования. Одним из главных достоинств игры является ее эмоциональная честность. Она не боится показывать уязвимость и показывает реалистичные переживания главной героини. Диалоги написаны жизненно и заставляют сопереживать Элизе. Хотя геймплей сводится к выбору вариантов в диалогах, каждый выбор кажется значимым и влияет на восприятие истории. Игра поднимает важные вопросы о поддержке, ментальном здоровье и важности человеческой связи. 'About Elise' - это не просто игра, а искренний рассказ о человеческой душе, ищущей надежду в непростые времена. Рекомендую всем, кто ценит трогательные и запоминающиеся истории.

"About Elise" is a rather mediocre first person puzzle adventure with somewhat low poly "cel shaded" game assets and a few puzzles to solve. What do you do in the game? The idea is that you're a baker from San Antonio (home of the Alamo etc etc) and you need to wander around some complex and solve a few puzzles to rescue your daughter. Why not just call the police, hmm? Nope, that would make sense. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.