De Profundis

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Franchement, je regrette pas d'y avoir joué. Le choix d'un visuel simple, noir (puisque les personnages sont totalement dans l'obscurité) est intéressant, ça fonctionne très bien. Devoir refaire l'histoire plusieurs fois mais en changeant à chaque fois quelques choix n'a pas été pas ennuyeux, on peut passer les dialogues qu'on a déjà eu et on a énormément de places pour sauvegarder (c'est super utile d'ailleurs pour tester différents choix et choisir la save avec le choix qu'on préfère) Les musiques sont cool à entendre, elles mettent dans l'ambiance du jeu même si elles ne sont pas des plus marquantes, elles fonctionnent très bien. Les bruits d'ambiance aussi, ça rajoute un gros + de mon point de vue Au fur et à mesure qu'on avance on a de plus en plus d'infos sur l'histoire du jeu, c'est génial, donc je recommande bien sûr

"De Profundis" 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 garbage Ren'Py e-book isn't your usual high school anime club dropout fan-fiction about the authors imaginary girlfriend. Instead it's a high school French club dropout fan-fiction about a murder mystery. French being such an elegant language, it's quite perverse to see it being used to write cringey fan-fictions, but Ren'Py has allowed all kinds of horrible things to happen to Steam Direct. This most certainly is a horror story, and the horror is the thought someone out there genuinely believed people would pay him $5 USD for a garbage Ren'Py fan-fiction. Makes you shudder to think, doesn't it? This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when otherwise we might have been spared the pollution. So, just like no professional writing took place here, no professional software development took place, either. 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. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at only 6 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 6 copies to satisfy the entire world's demand for it. While this E-book has no up-front cost, 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.

Qui eut cru que le noir total puisse être aussi magnifique ? Angoissant, oui - et de plus en plus, au fil de votre progression aux ramifications multiples, souterraines, anxiogènes, utérines - et quand vient la lumière - instant fugace : c'est pire encore !... De l'effondrement d'un hypermarché à une cavale orphique, avec ses mystères énigmatiques et ses questions qu'on n'ose pas poser... toujours plus loin, plus bas, plus sombre, plus irréel et pourtant si vrai... Ce jeu tout à la fois inquiétant, mystérieux, poétique, mélancolique, est particulièrement bien écrit et pousse loin, très loin, les attentes qu'on peut avoir d'un sound novel, tout en dialogues, évocations et ambiances savamment construites par une musique générée au fil de vos actions et interactions.. C'est du grand art, du frisson et une apothéose qui marque durablement. Bref : j'ai adoré.

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