
Driftwood is a visual novel following Marcus Feick and his new life on Marthas Vineyard.
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[h1]KOSTENLOS[/h1] "Driftwood" ist eine kostenlose Visual Novel. Visual Novels sind eigentlich keine Spiele. Es sind vielmehr kleine Geschichten, interaktive Bücher, die meist Anime Optik haben. Häufig sieht man gezeichnete Standbilder während zu lesende Texte automatisiert durchlaufen. "Driftwood" war ein Crowdfunding-Projekt. In der Story sind wir Marcus Feick, ein Schüler aus Boston, der vor allen Dingen mit anderen Schülern zusammentrifft. Technisch kann man dem Titel nicht viel vorwerfen. Mechanisch funktionieren die Umblendungen gut, die Grafik ist scharf, wenn auch etwas durchschnittlich, ein bißchen Klaviergeklimper gibts auch und einige ganz nette Sounds. Auch sprachlich ist das technisch gekonnt. Im Sprachraum des Englischen bewegt sich der Autor souverän, übel wird es allerdings, wenn man mal auf den Inhalt schaut. Das Problem ist die Geschichte. Selten habe ich etwas derartig belangloses ertragen müssen. Der Protagonist ist uninspiriert langweilig und von nicht gerade überbordender Intelligenz, der beginnt, sich in ein Mädchen zu verlieben. Durch ein unerwartetes Ereignis wird er verletzt und von seinen Eltern auf ein Internat geschickt. Dort trifft er reihenweise belanglose Mitschüler, belanglose Lehrer, belanglose Angestellte und führt mit ihnen belanglose Gespräche. Da wird dann auch mal während des Keksebackens das Thema Rassismus in erschreckend platt-dümmlicher Weise abgehandelt oder man redet halt mal irgendwie so über Musik und so Sachen. Das ist alles so unwichtig, so nichstsagend, so inhaltsbefreit, daß man anfängt, sich nach Rosamunde Pilcher zu sehnen. Angeblich lernt der Protagonist von jeder Begegnung etwas fürs Leben und Erwachsenwerden, nur was, bleibt stets unklar. Außerdem: von diesen Hohlbirnen etwas übers Leben zu lernen, wäre eine sichere Bank dafür, in ewiger Dummheit zu versanden. Deswegen kann man den Titel keinem denkenden Wesen empfehlen. Man verliert nur wertvolle Lebenszeit. [h1]Wertung:[/h1] 5/10 Atmosphäre 3/10 Story 6/10 Grafik 6/10 Sound 7/10 Spielmechanik 5/10 Balancing 4/10 Spielspass [h1]Fazit:[/h1] Spannend wie Treibholz. [h1][b]5/10 Gesamtwertung
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This is only the first part of the full visual novel, which was supposed to finished in 2017, I am now writing this in 2020 and the author has dissapeared so this will forever remain unfinished.
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I played through every route, every scene, in order to be absolutely certain if there were any qualities to redeem this game. I regret to say that no, I found none. What I found was a game filled with 18th century racial sterotyping, gender ideas which belong to the stone age, and dialog so badly written it was as if someone scraped 4Chan's /pol/ and dumped it onto the screen. The inconsistent artwork could be forgiven, the bad spelling excused, but when not once, but twice, the game had a character say "Hitler did nothing wrong" in a non-ironic manner, with noone calling them out on it, there was no excuse that could be made. The characters are poor stereotypes, poorly written and even worse crudely shaped into images which would make people on Stormfront smile. From the black girl who dispariages that all members of her ethnic group are hoodlums or morons, to the Korean girl who is perfect in every manner, all of them need the brave white boy to save them from their ethnic trappings. I not only do not recommend this game, it has become the second most despised game I have ever had the displeasure of playing. I would rather play Duke Nukem Forever with the theme song from Manos repeating the whole time than this pile of trash. It is not even a full game, only being act 1, and I pray for the sake of the world that Act 2 is stillborn. To the developers, you should be ashamed of yourselves. You clearly have the technical competence to make a game, with no bugs or glitches of note (it actually performed far better than many other games done by far larger studios). The use of bigoted language and outdated stereotypes does not make you 'edgey' in the least. It only makes you look pathetic. Get psychiatric help, because you sorely need it.
I don't understand how this worked, at one point the credits appeared and then it was over, and I don't even get if that's the end if that's the end of part | I have no idea.. But parts I was able to see, I absolutely 100% you taking a look at for, I guess.
Genuinely one of the best games I have ever played in my life. Currnetly holding the world record speed run. Would be great if they decided to add competetive multiplayer. So I can test my visual novel skills against other enthusiasts around the world. Other than that, an amazing game overall!
This was great and I have to say that all i want is for Marcus and Matt to have a little boylove. I feel like Matt is me in another univese as a man and i can't help but assume they have a bit of hot, sexual tension. Over all a really good expirience and I can't wait to play more.
Hello to anyone reading this review. I recommend this game strongly solely for one reason. Matt. The dating options in this game are awful, the characters either bland and stereotypical (Taryn, Mikayla, etc.) or insanely unrealistic (Noro). It seems that each character is simply the writer trying to express a multitude of their own opinions using random dating simulator characters. The script is poorly written, almost as though it was written by a child that is desperate to use a different set of words in absolutely every line. (Incidentally, the developer/writer was 16 when they made this). The backgrounds are fairly well drawn and the music often fits the scenes very well. However the art of this game is inconsistent and quite awful. This game makes a wonderful experience for a couple of friends to play as a joke, unfortunately it wasn't created as one. I cannot take it seriously for the life of me and I recommend you don't either. Matt, one of the few male characters you are able to interact with in this game is the essence of god awful comedy. His jokes are all so dated and lame that you'll wonder how they let it into the 'final' (unfinished) product. He appears to be comedic relief until he starts talking about existential crisis' on the roof with the MC (who by the way is VERY poorly written) (a shot to the shoulder should not nearly miss the clavicle, lungs, ribs AND spine). Matt is the ONLY reason I like this game. He's a great dude. Play it for Matt, do it.
i enjoyed it, art good have been better though took inspiration from katawa shoujo thought that game is really good, nothing groundbreaking just a very compenent VN with mediocare art and slightly better writing
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