be you 2

Je me souviens plus du jeu mais je crois que c'était sympa

This is probably one of the most bizarre choose your own adventure games I've ever played and I'm not sure that I fully understand the ending or trajectory of the game beyond the first section, but I still enjoyed it. The voice acting doesn't always line up with the text but I'm not convinced that that's not deliberate sometimes, though I can't be sure given the option to turn off the voiceover. The text itself is really funny and I appreciated the humour. Overall - a fun, brief little choose-your-own-adventure that is pretty confusing but maybe there's more to it than meets the eye if you give it a chance (I've only done one playthrough at the time of writing this review lol).

6/10 An unusual philosophical visual novel with author's voiceover. Good: - it's certainly a unique visual novel. You can call it "artsy" because there is much of the author here. It's more like not about the game but about the author. That's unusual for games at least - there were funny choices and outcomes - the author certainly has artistic talent, and it's interesting to listen to the story at least in the first 5-10 minutes - I liked the jokes about raising small children. After having a child myself and going though a painful divorce, I can attest to what the author is saying. If you're 20-something, just know that a small child a very, very big pain in the ass which basically destroys your life - or at least changes it a lot. And it's much worse for women than men. So, yeah.. So-so: - the quality of sound recording isn't that great. I'm not an audio engineer so I can't say what exactly it is, but it just feels unprofessional. Which may be okay if this is an artsy indie game.. - the images could be more varied. Typically you have 10-20 lines until an image changes Bad: - the voiceovers progress at their own pace, and the written text doesn't progress in sync. At first that's very confusing. Then you find out that a left click progresses the text. So you end up clicking to have the text in front of you as the voice overs go - eventually you get tired of the voice-overs being too slow, because you can read the text much faster. And it kinda gets boring overall, as you start skimming through the text.. Maybe it's because the story is actually too long or there isn't much variety of what the player can do - in a few places, the voiceovers just don't match the text. When I reached the small creatures area (?) I kinda lost the thread entirely. Seems this game was only playtested to the middle. The second half is just broken. So I'm not sure there was any outcome that depended on my action. This kinda ruined my overall impression of the game and I was glad when I just clicked quickly to reach the end. Overall, still it's a nice experience. I'd suggest that the dev just plays through all the branches again to weed out the bugs. And make voiceovers play after the user clicks. Or better, just re-code it in RenPy, to have the "go back 1 step" function, quick save and the rest that automatically comes in that visual novel engine. [table][tr][th][i]I'm a Steam curator, you can [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43946907-Friendly-Nerd/]follow me[/url][/i][/th][/tr][/table]

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Interesting... not at all like the first be you game. But this one was fun as well. It took me 11 minutes to complete one play through.

Игра "Be You 2" – это неожиданно увлекательное приключение в мир самопознания и личностного роста. Сюжет, разворачивающийся вокруг принятия важных решений и построения отношений, затягивает с первых минут. Графика, хоть и не поражает воображение, вполне приятна и создает атмосферу уюта. Главное достоинство игры – это ее вариативность. Каждый выбор действительно влияет на дальнейшее развитие событий и судьбу главного героя. Персонажи хорошо проработаны, у каждого своя мотивация и история, что заставляет сопереживать им и задумываться о моральных дилеммах, которые ставит игра. Интерактивность с окружением добавляет глубины, а возможность формировать характер персонажа делает прохождение уникальным. "Be You 2" – это не просто игра, это своего рода интерактивный фильм, который заставляет задуматься о ценности собственных решений и последствиях, которые они могут повлечь. Рекомендую всем, кто ищет в играх не только развлечение, но и пищу для размышлений. Возможно, некоторым игрокам покажется, что геймплей немного медленный, но это компенсируется глубоким сюжетом и возможностью сопереживать героям.

Nice story on how the father's actions influence the child [spoiler]Its a shame the choices don't influence too much the end, the most important choice in the whole game is what costume she will use for halloween, which will end up to be what is the creature in the "bad" which you will end up killing. your game choices are only relevant if you chose to leave the dream world[/spoiler] the game has in total 6 endings so it has replay content (5 main ones and 1 secret) with a bonus if you collect the secret ending (only achievable after unlocking all former 5) if you go for all the endings it will it may take you about 1h to finish all the game (without skipping, or just listening to the narrator) disclosing the secret end:[spoiler]If you like developer backstory you will like the bonus[/spoiler]