Friend ReQuest - A Playable Teaser

didnt get the story cuz they dont explain very much, probably wouldve been sad if i werent confused

"Friend ReQuest - A Playable Teaser" is not strictly a game. It's an advertisement/demo for another game called Amity Chain. It's a common mistake when unfamiliar with Steam to launch demos/advertisements as full games on Steam instead of tagging them correctly as demos. Here's the instructions for putting a demo up on Steam, to demonstrate that there is a correct process for this, which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos Treating this as a game, it's a miserable failure. It's just a 2D top down retro pixel "adventure" game slapped together badly with GameMaker Studio 2, text heavy and intended to discuss LGBT+ and other social issues. GameMaker Studio is a very poor quality game construction kit, and unsurprisingly results in products that have little to no value as games, especially when compared to the work of professional developers who create genuine products for gamers. Just like you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear, you can't make a good game from a completely crap game engine. Using a video game construction kit requires little to no talent or skill as a game developer. Very often, GameMaker Studio is used to make shovelware and lazy cash grabs. A choice was made to use obsolete 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. Resolution and controls are locked, and can't be changed or customised to improve the visuals or the control experience. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC. This wasn't intended to be a game for gamers, instead the purpose of this "game" is to push forward/discuss specific social issues/social agenda. It's my firm opinion that video games are not the correct medium for this. It does not improve gaming at all, and offers nothing of value as an actual game for gamers. It may even be harmful as armchair guidance from amateur game developers should never be used as a substitute for professional help. This is often done insincerely by some amateur developers in an attempt to gain popularity through controversy and being "woke", when they are unable to gain any popularity through creating video game works of actual quality and value for gamers. In line with that, this advertisement contains subject matter no suitable for children, however the developer, either through incompetence or an actual intention for this to be presented to children, neglected to put age controls on the game. While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. At the end of the day, I can only recommend full, correctly published games to gamers. Because this is just an advertisement, and because of the numerous other problems with it, I can't recommend it.

6/10

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overall: 6/10 This isn't a game, it's a Teaser/min game ad for amity chain. I wish steam had a meh review because it's not bad at all, it's a half an hour if you help people and an hour to an hour and a half if you don't know what you doing, The Story (spoilers): The story is good it's about a dude name Chirs who wants to be a girl in a small town full of people who are hardcore Christians. I enjoy the story, I lived in a red state and went to a small county high school. I feel for the main charter even though my high school wasn't against trans or gay rights, a lot of students were. ( I am not a Trans, but I Did hang around with them because they were nice and not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) I am not going talk about the story here just go play the game Story rating 8/10 Game-play(spoilers): Ok I'm not a big fan of this type of gameplay you just walk into your house, change clothes, go to school, talk to people, go to class, go sit down at lunch (you only do this once), it cut to the end of the day, you help people at the school, study with teachers, then leave to go home, then you go on the computer and then you sleep. This is every day, mind you It's more about the story than the gameplay, I think after day one the walk to school and back should be shortened, but sadly it isn't. then, also there is no point in the stats so you don't have to do anything like change your clothes, help people or study with the teachers. no matter if you do them or not the ending is still the same. I think something that could easily fix this problem ( hopefully in the next game) is if you help people they will see you are not a bad person or the teachers that you study with will help you. the story isn't bad but wasting the time of your players is, I realy hope this helps the devs on the game. but the worst part about the game is the ending few minutes where you wash up on an island, where you sing a sword and shoot a bow, I don't like this because this comes from the left-field and take me out of the game, I hope if this is part of the game is in amity chain it's at the start of the game. 3/10 atmosphere: Ok this game's atmosphere is good, but from the start, it feels like a horror game and it just doesn't work for the first two days, I think a bright color pallet would be good for the first two days then it starts to rain on day three and all stuff starts to happen. it shows the happy cheery-es the game slows to turn into the realty Chris this dark color pallet, trees start to die off, I personally think it would look good and be a great analogy to Chris and the hate shown to Chris. 4/10 Conclusion: I say play it once and look to see if you can find amity chain if out as of writing this (June 9 2022) it hasn't been released and I can't find really any news about it. It's a free game, with a good story, ok atmosphere, and mediocre gameplay.

Incroyable trailer d'un Undertale like qui, je l'espère, sera terminé un jour.

SPOILERS: At the end of the day this game has a great point to make, BUT the game is boring, its more or less not horrorat all and its honestly not fun to play at all. i played trough the game a couple of times and i never got rewarded for collecting stats. There where no indication that Chris was part of the LGBTQ+ community at all and the only thing i could relate to was that random user blocking Chris on discord. The biggest problem is that there is no drive to finish this game as it is. There is no inner dialouge from Chris and i get no attatchment for that character. More focus should be put in making the game more fun, like rewarding mini-games or more of the horror element.