Arcadia

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too much monologue, too little choices, too much of the same. It's not bad, you can see effort is put into it, it's just that throughout the story I kept hoping for more options that never came.

Arcadia is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This poorly written e-book was slapped together using the Ren'Py construction kit, so just like no professional writing took place, no professional software development took place either, just filling out the basic template format for the construction kit and everything else is done. Weirdly this was slapped together at a "game jam", which is an event for people who can't get jobs as game developers to pat each other on the back and pretend they're real game developers, and then dump their demos on Steam to reinforce the fantasy. But this isn't a game, so I guess this e-book being written at a game jam is like going to one of those paint and sip wine nights and changing the oil in your car, because that's the same thing isn't it? No, it isn't. This e-book is a weird high school anime club dropout fanfiction about running a jazz club, but the writing is so garbage it could be about anything and nobody would read it. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at only 14 concurrent readers... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. The funny thing is, if you wanted to print this book, you'd only need to print 14 copies to satsify the entire world's demand for it. While this E-book is "free", you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

Story is linear. There isn't much choice to make.

Lots of reading, not much of choices. Starts to get very boring and the rival is just a filthy b****, not much of personality. IMHO I've played better games but I guess there's room for improvement. This, however, is merely my personal opinion.

An enjoyable visual novel (with some issues) lasting around 1.5-2 hours, depending if you only read one or both endings. It's about Roman, an ex-AR (augmented reality) employee, looking to get back to low tech basics at a jazz club and Eris, a former co-worker. There aren't many choices, but they all revolve around trying to shape things for a cooperative future or staying enemies in most aspects. It's nice seeing the character growth in the good ending. Just when it was getting good, it ends. Getting to read more would be fantastic. CGs are pretty lacking. The Gallery shows a whole lot of them, but they're either just BGs or images that... have nothing to do with anything ever shown. Eris is quite pretty though. At times, I'd think I muted the game as there would be no music or other sounds, leading to some silent stretches.

Diyaloglara dayalı güzel bir oyun ortaya çıkartmışlar şahsen ben bu oyunu sevdim.

Çok da uzak olmayan bir gelecekte Roman, klas bir caz kulübünde yeni basılmış bir çalışandır. Yeni işe alınan (ve eski iş arkadaşı) olarak geçmişiyle mücadele etmesi gereken Eris, eski işini bırakmanın yapılacak doğru şey olup olmadığını sorgulamasına neden olur.

Игра красиво выглядит, но как и во всех новеллах игрок ничего не решает и не играет.