Circle

The English translation is hilarious. And that's about it.

Circle is quite a train wreck. It's a Japanese art-not-game interactive novel with some light "gameplay" elements that largely consists of time managing a "circle" by giving it food or being sociable with it. The godawful, ear grating soundtrack is supplemented with godawful 2D pixel/MS-Paint "art" and some of the worst Japanese-English translation I've ever seen. The gameplay is bewilderingly difficult to get into, despite being basic, because it's so obtuse it needs a tutorial for the 2-3 keypresses you have to bother with if you seriously wanted to "play" this "art". Let's get into the technical defects, as if the terrible premise for this "game" isn't enough to warn gamers away. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio. It's possible they developed this using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game has been specifically designed for people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. The implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the Wolf RPG Editor RPG construction kit. This is a very poor quality construction kit sometimes used by non-English amateur developers as it's free (so they don't have to pay for GameMaker Studio) and doesn't require advanced game development skills, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities (it's arguably worse than RPG Maker, if such a thing is possible). Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. This is free on Steam, but it's free because it's not really a game, it's an art exhibition, that was so poor in quality it could never be seen in a public gallery. There's plenty of great local galleries in every city that would offer a far better experience than this.

birçok iyi şey yapıyor! eğlenceli oyun değişiyor. Çok eğlenceli bir oyun ama saatlerce süren oyundan sonra oyun gerçekten beni ve kalbimi etkiledi. Depresyonun, yalnızlığın ve biraz kırmızının karanlık tarafıyla ilgili bir oyun .

Nem igazán értettem hogy ennek mi a lényege. Főleg azután hogy csak a kislány megtalálásáig jutottam. Utána megöltem a Kört mivel nem tudtam hogy lenne még valami a játékban.

I really liked it.I think there should be more games like this where game speaks to you its heart.Thank you for making this amazing game.

:,)

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