Cursed Sight

The music and the art are really good for an indie game. However, writing needs a lot more work. It felt clumsy and choice of words were weird or didn't really suit within the story. To me, it looked like the writer doesn't have much experience, or is very young. Having good beta viewers or editors for the text would have been a good idea. It looked good, but I just couldn't enjoy it, because writing and good characters are what I look for in my visual novels.

Its extremely weird to see this game with an 84% positive rating. Cursed Sight... is pretty mediocre, sometimes bad. Its turn off your brain kinda stuff. It can occasionally nail an emotional punchline, but those points are drowned out by the much more frequent instances of bad dialogue, SOD breaking scenarios, and tonal inconsistencies. The author doesn't seem to understand that emotional story beats aren't something you can just write. They have to be earned. Cursed Sight doesn't manage to earn any of its emotional story beats. As a result, it feels childish and rushed - especially near the end. This VN would've been heavily improved by: 1) Better writing. The author struggles by making the young male characters too funny, like the loser protagonist of a rom-com. Its overboard, and doesn't really fit the serious tone of the rest of the story. 1) Having its length doubled. Really hard to develop or explore the type of themes the author is aiming for with a story of this length. It also would've given more time for character development and introspection. 2) Smoothing out the pacing with less timeskips. The timeskips and jumps in this story are too grating - the transitions are unsmooth. 3) More meaningful choices presented better. Each choice you can make in the game is essentially its own ending. Usually the impact of choices builds up over the course of a VN, but the zany changes in what happens at the end based on your choices feels... weird. 4) Developing the endings better. A lot of the endings take an insane left turn at the last minute, then end on a train wreck, excluding the True Ending which feels forced. Of all the VNs I've read (re: quite a few), this is probably the one I'd recommend the least. Go read Higurashi or something.

Kind of a low rate game with a clunky start and unsatisfying endings. I am honestly surprised it has so many positive reviews. The writing is awkward and difficult to look past. The story is kind of limited and doesn't really explore some very obvious solutions to my mind. And instead traps you to bad decision making and tries to convince you this is "fate" I guess? Anyway, I played it because I already payed for it, but I don't recommend it.

Story of a little boy who is sold into slavery to a king and ends up assigned with serving the king's "treasure". I like the concept of the story, and the general idea of the multiple endings involved, all easy to achieve through one of the few choices that appear throughout the story. However, the story builds up way too quickly and feels very rushed, and has a fair number of plot devices and holes, especially in regards to a little slave boy fairly new to the job executing this off. Artistically, the novel is ok, the characters are decently drawn, they bland and stiff, and so are the backgrounds. There is also a dearth of CGs and poses. The choice of music is passable, but is not the best and certainly unremarkable. No voice acting included is a minus too. Overall, the visual novel is average, with a full price that more or less fits the bill, though I would still wait for a sale before buying it. 6/10

The main protagonist, Gai is sent away to Miyon’s temple by his parents where he must endure his new life as a slave. Gai can be irritating due to his young age. During the time skip, I still didn’t like him especially because of a particular scene. I will not go into details to prevent spoiling the story. I felt that the dialogue was lacking and it was out of place at times. The artwork along with the music is beautiful. I enjoy the visual novel, but it could have been a lot better. The length is 2 to 3 hours long. If this is too expensive for you, then wait until it’s on sale to purchase.

This was a good but dark visual novel. If things like the horrors of war bother you skipping Cursed Sight might be your best bet. On the other hand if you like interesting characters and can put up with a hefty dose of awkward pacing it's a decent way to waste around eight hours. Every ending here is a degree of sadness, so you'll remember this one for a while after it's gone. The character you play as starts out a brat but grows throughout the story which is great as you'd otherwise abandon the game - yes, Gai really is that annoying to start with lol. One story arc should take you roughly three hours, save scumming should cut it down to around seven total. All achievements work fine. Note the game doesn't support 1080p resolution, the whole thing is letterboxed like an old non-widescreen TV show. Stunning visuals and a soundtrack whose DLC you might be tempted to buy. Worth a buy when on sale, a solid consideration at current list price if you're into VNs with some oomph.

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Uma história de "escravidão e redenção". Cursed sight tem uma premissa interessante, uma princesa amaldiçoada com o poder de controlar o destino. Isso causa nela um peso enorme por saber de tudo e ao mesmo tempo não ter nada; o vazio dela vai se sobressaindo e a necessidade de se criar um vinculo com uma amiga vai surgindo. Assim é inserida na história GAI, uma escrava que foi vendida para a família da princesa do destino, e a partir dai todas crenças da princesa se colocam em dúvida; e o game em si passa a se tratar se seremos uma "Maria vai com as outras" que faz o que os outros querem para termos amizade, ou se seguiremos firmes em nossos dogmas e projetos antigos. Aqui teremos uma boa oportunidade de treinar inglês, os textos são de simples a intermediário e teremos uma boa narrativa; e seu preço em promoção sai menos de R$3,00