Abscission

Abscission is a an old-school horror point and click adventure game. What you should know (the good) : + Its story is compelling + The art is mostly good. + It has 4 genuinely different endings. + It has a novel dialog system that is interesting What you should know (the bad) : - Some of the art is poor. it's especially the case for some of the body horror elements, which deprives them of their impact - The puzzles are at best uninspired and at worst needlessly convoluted - The endings accessible after a playthrough are based on your use of the dialog system and the link between those elements is quite arbitrary - it's quite short (3 to 4 hours) - It sometimes gives you an illusion of choice that doesn't have any consequence. While it's not a terrible game, I can't recommend Abscission because its poor puzzles make for a sub-par experience. Note that this is the second game in what is currently a trilogy, although the game is self-contained. Games 1 (Teeth of Glass) and 3 (Snarl) are free and available on itch.io. While Teeth of Glass is best ignored, Snarl is an even shorter but much better prequel that I strongly encourage you to experience.

9/10 好久没有品味过如此纯真的美式恐怖作品了。作者的节奏控制能力相当厉害，环环相扣，没有很多Point and Click Game的拖沓枯燥感。故事虽然经典（换句话来说就是老套路），但却并不无聊，很多地方会有意料之外的小惊喜。 虽然没有用任何直观的克系元素，但整体的氛围（神秘二手翻译书籍、不可名状、血肉怪物等），反而比许多打着洛夫克拉夫特式的名号的游戏更有原典味道。不过本作其实更偏向哥特恐怖，更像是爱伦坡与爱手艺诞下一子（那个地下室真的很像Amontillado的情节） 此作的美术虽然不是很对我胃口，但一些细节的细腻呈现也打动了我。无论如何，能贴合整体氛围的美术就是好美术。很难想象作者是独立制作完成的，各个方面的把控都十分细节。音乐选取和音效制作方面也有不少能让人为之触动的细节。 很喜欢的一部佳作！

ab·​scis·​sion 1: the act or process of cutting off : removal 2: the natural separation of flowers, fruit, or leaves from plants at a special separation layer Middle English abscisioun, borrowed from Medieval Latin abscīsiōn-, abscīsiō "cutting off, felling, amputation," going back to Latin, "aposiopesis," from abscīdere "to cut off or away, remove" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of action nouns; spelling abscission (in Late and Medieval Latin as abscissiōn-, abscissiō) by construing the noun as a derivative of Latin abscindere "to tear off or away" ╭── ⋅ ⋅ ── ✩ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──╮ a deserving adventure full of narrative and exposition glossy characters that portray a rudimentary setting precision detailed visual artistry in fully detailed 356x200 pixel arrangements not laden with cliche cameo quotes from inspirations ┗━━━━━━ •◦இ•◦━━━━┛ while the gameplay is typical of the adventure game point and click style it certainly lacks an additional voice narrative speech sound effect the artistry aesthetics was sufficient for continued enjoyment "eldritch lovecraftian" is a bit of a stretch, certainly you could allude to this by subjective comparison ══════《✧》══════ 5minutes gameplay? certainly would never have won this game so easily (~4 hours 4 endings gametime) because of choice i decidedly download the AGS linux version 3.6.1.30 (latest 3.6.2.13) to playthrough on my chosen operating system and because adventure game studio is open source, its freely available as a portable game engine be sure to match the game compiled version, as sometimes features between versions are not compatible rename Abscission.exe to Abscission.ags and drop the files into /data/ then run [code]startgame[/code] which runs the AGS64 executable through the script setting up the runtime environment for you why developers of AGS games rarely test the linux (or other system) ports is beyond me. a 1:1 version match will typically run without issues agsflashlight.dll was not required agsteam.dll was not required SDL2.dll was not required (AGS provides the complimentary libraries libSDL2-2.0.so.0) another unfortunate choice and side effect of applicable laws: Jimmie Rodgers - Waiting for a Train (1929) is still protected by copyright atleast until 2029, enforced by US MMA 2018 (music plays on the radio at the liquor store) ‿︵‿︵୨˚̣̣̣͙୧ - - ୨˚̣̣̣͙୧‿︵‿︵ full playthrough on linux without proton GNU/Linux

The dev really has a great knack to tell thrilling stories! It's hard to stop playing once we start. We play as Detective Will Stanhope, tasked with investigating after the horrific discovery of a gruesome dead body. While searching crime scenes, questionning suspects and uncovering clues, we also get a glimpse of the detective's own personal drama. His relationship with colleagues and his estranged daughter, as well as the haunted memories of a similar past case that profoundly affected him. And the detailed pixel art, music, and sound effects are perfectly put together here to convey a bleak and mysterious atmosphere at every step of the story. The game offers an interesting mechanic as well: we can choose between 4 different mood interactions when interrogating someone. The mood we decide on may uncover new clues but will also affect the type of ending we get. Some puzzles also have multiple solutions, and we’ll be asked a few times throughout the game to make choices that influence how some story events unfold. All of this adds a good replayability for those curious to explore every possible path. I really enjoyed my time with Abscission and uncovering its mysteries. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes thrilling supernatural stories.

reminds me of the old wadjet eye games like the blackwell series. but gory and lovecraftian. love this game!

刚通关，唠嗑两句读后感。 游戏比我一开始以为的还要优秀，我本来觉得第一幕就端上血肉模糊不可名状之物这种做法太直接，没有克系那种平淡日常下真相蠕动的美感。但是通着通着发现其他方面的氛围其实塑造得很好。雨一直在下，迷茫的人痛苦的人徘徊迷失，用着药物自我麻痹，和整个城镇一起，从内部生霉，腐朽崩塌。而这种感觉，与什么邪神啊至高存在啊无关，只是人自己的因素。 以及本作的鞋教其实并没有克系那种“知晓太多”的狂气感，[spoiler]更像是药哈多了人烂了自己都不知道自己在干什么。 [/spoiler]说实话有点魔幻现实感，重点是现实，克系只是套皮。 结局也是这种感觉。[spoiler] 1结局和2结局，标准的be结局，选择了用快乐麻痹自己。感觉把邪神去掉换成化学极乐毫无违和感 。[/spoiler] 个人最喜欢的结局，也是第一个打出来的结局，[spoiler] 其实是四结局。4和3结局是同一个前置条件，也就是拒绝了自我麻痹，选择面对现实。，3结局是自尽，不愿在彻底无望的痛苦中继续挣扎，4结局是自断臂（话说标题abscission本身就有切除的意思），哪怕这意味着更加持久的痛苦，也是自己选择的。主角拒绝了以“这样对你更快乐”为由剥夺别人的选择权，转身去面对自己的痛苦，自己的亲情困境并修复它。[/spoiler] [spoiler] 哪个结局更好？每个人自己的想法都不一样，认同的结局也不一样。但毫无疑问，1到4结局是逐级递进的，需要的果决和魄力是递进的。到达1结局只要放弃和接受就好，但想要达成4结局的心态需要跨越前面所有阶段的困难。你很难说第四结局的心态就是最优越的，但毫无疑问是更困难的 。[/spoiler] [spoiler] 至于苍白女王到底起了个什么作用，答曰啥都没干，不是好神也不是恶神。但是这样很对味不是吗，毕竟不能用人类的简单观念去评价一个不可名状玩意儿。 [/spoiler]

good game . however，we need Chinese like [i]Snarl[/i] did

别玩，解密搭配像素风格的体验一塌糊涂，太容易忽略小物品卡进度了。四个对话风格感觉不如全取消掉，我按着攻略打就因为选错一个对话风格直接死档卡住了，该说这是恶性bug还是设计糟糕呢...... 喜欢这种风格的不如去试试隔壁Postmodern Adventures做的游戏。 更不用说这游戏还有bug不让切屏，切出去看看攻略都黑屏，看评论说是这个莫名其妙的拉伸设计的原因