Dyscourse

Ох, как же я давно купил эту игру. Приятно вычеркнуть очередную ячейку из списка барахла в библиотеке. Новичка отпугнет отсутствие русского языка, но английский в игре по сути прост, на крайняк можно пройти с переводчиком на телефоне, как это сделал я. Это квест, сердцем которого является система выборов действий. Позднее выйдет игра This is Police с похожей концепцией. Еще одна причина по которой я вспомнил про TiP это неочевидность последствий выборов игрока. Действие, которое кажется очень разумным, обернется сценарной глупостью, которая нужна чтобы двигать сюжет. А главные герои и вовсе напоминают толпу слабоумных, которые никогда не видели фильмов про выживание на необитаемом острове. В какой-то момент из-за атмосферы глупости перестаешь воспринимать сюжет всерьез. Дополнительная мини-кампания имеет те же недостатки, помноженные на 10. Создана была только чтобы по дружески поугарать над коллегами из мира инди-игр. Наверное эти отсылки вам понравятся, если вы ярый поклонник инди-тусовки. Но шутка про ЧСВ Тима Шейфера это конечно прикол. Лайк ставлю только потому что я не жалею потраченного на эту игру времени, хотя бы потому что она подкидывает размышления на тему того каких клише и приемов при построении сценария надо избегать. Остальным же не рекомендую приобретать и играть в эту игру, только если вы фанат квестов или адепт инди.

4/10 Promising on paper but dull and underwhelming in action. I’ve really struggled with this decision as I don’t like writing negative reviews, especially when it can be boiled down to personal preference but when I asked myself if I would recommend this game to anyone I know based on its own merits, the answer was a decisive no. The average playthrough is about an hour long but has such a wide variety of choices that you could play the game for hours if you were so inclined to see all it has to offer. Which by itself is really impressive however the game failed to engage me to a point where I would want to explore these options. The endings, to put it bluntly and with no spoilers, are unrewarding. The game focuses on keeping your small group of six survivors alive (and trust me, at least one of them will die) but the characters themselves are simple caricatures and fail to get you invested in them enough to want them all to survive. I thought maybe they would develop as you got to know them, but they remained rather one note throughout. They’re not deep, they’re not interesting and they’re not even funny. Despite being a CYOA walk and click-style game there are large areas with very little to interact with. You will find yourself doing very little as it felt like walking to and forth a string of cutscenes. The game has a charming art style but I found everything else about it to be quite lacking and simple. There is a whole extra section called Indie Island but I haven’t played it and doubt I will play this game again. I recognise that a lot of this is probably just a matter of personal preference, but I find myself disappointed because I wanted to like this game and couldn’t. Maybe you can and if you do, I really do hope you have fun with it but if you’re looking for CYOA games I would recommend spending your money elsewhere.

Wow, a game where choices really do matter. You can save or kill everyone in this game. Most choices will result in something completely contrary to what you intended. It was decent enough to play once at 45 minutes, but I have no desire to see how different choices will save other people. The story is too mediocre and uninteresting to merit a second play, which is too bad since that is clearly the entire point of the game: to play multiple times.

This was the very first game that I played on steam and is what started my fascination with choice based games.

Une très bonne expérience...

Musím říci, že jsem byl zklamán. Grafická stránka a vizualizace nic moc, příběhově taky nic moc, události a rozhodování taky dost divný, takže jsem ani nedohrál. Chybějící dabing a podivné mumlání taky nepomáhalo. Hra prostě nezaujala, nemohu doporučit. Nejspíš nejsem cílovka tohoto žánru. Hra vyhrána na Steamgifts.

So, it's a stylized, story-heavy game that's all about making quick decisions. And if a game has to sacrifice interactivity and gameplay to focus on storytelling, the story and characters have gotta be purdy darn good. Unfortunately I found the characters really one-dimensional, with all of the dialog being really bland and boring to read. Found myself getting bored mashing the A button as I was speed-reading the text, and waiting for animations to end. No thanks. I'd rather just play a point-and-click adventure game or a weebo visual novel with catgirls and full voice-acting.

interesting story with a lot of choices. It was okay. <번역> 꽤 많은 선택지와 재밌는 이야기였다. 나쁘지않음.