
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
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In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, snuff it out, or play both sides against each other?
“Heavens’ Revolution: A Lion Among the Cypress” is an interactive retrofuturistic fantasy novel by Peter Adrian Behravesh, inspired by eighteenth-century Iran, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—275,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Your training in alchemy puts you at the cutting edge of magic and technology, learning the science that governs the material world and the heavens alike. You can already create gunpowder, design intricate machines, brew potions that can ease the most terrible diseases, and distill fragrant perfumes. Much knowledge of astralchemy has been lost, but you could even learn to repair a khalicraft spaceship to escape to another world, or a giant mech that you can pilot into battle.
Seyj is an ancient city on the brink of revolution. Half a century ago, the She’ri Empire invaded, overthrowing the old ruler and occupying your planet. You are descended from both She’ri colonists and ancient Seyj families, and your loyalties are torn.
Like all citizens, you must serve in the Royalists’ army and defend the satrap governor—and yet you can see the Revolutionists’ protests escalating every day, agitating to overthrow the satrap and restore the old regime.
When the Revolutionists try to recruit you to their cause, will you share their view that they fight for justice? Or will you remain loyal to the satrap, upholding your duty as a soldier? Or will you play a game more dangerous than your fiercest alchemical flame, feeding information from one faction to another as a spy?
You had best hope that you don’t end up on the wrong side of a shamshir’s blade.
Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, bi, or asexual.
Master arcane astralchemy to craft powerful weapons, open your own workshop, or secure a professorship at the University
Rise within the ranks of the military and command an army to defend the satrap
Or, join the revolution, overthrow the usurper, and restore the old ruler to her throne
Find love with a fellow soldier, a blacksmith-turned-rebel, or a princess
Is gaining the world worth losing your soul?
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Languages: English
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This is an interesting setting, to be sure. But I spent a bunch of time having to go and open the glossary to get even the slightest idea of what some of the words in the text meant. It broke any possibility of a sense of immersion in the story, being confused about a reference to lore or something as simple as a form of address. The characters are not particularly likeable, and you're supposed to side with the revolutionaries without much reason to do so. Your ne'er-do-well brother needs your help but doesn't seem to merit any sense of loyalty. Your employer demands absolute trust after knowing you less than a day. You get an achievement "bootlicker" for breaking up a fantasy-world opium den. Like, I didn't really ask for my character to be a cop and I didn't realize when I started that being a cop was part of the story, but if it's clearly explained that failures to enforce the law will result in heavy consequences for everyone including innocent folks, so I don't feel like it's being a bootlicker to arrest a bunch of drug dealers. The point where I lost my patience was being told how attractive my character found some random nepobaby with a mustache. I don't love being told what I think, particularly being told whether I like or am attracted to someone. Don't tell me I like a character. Give me reasons to like them and accept that maybe I still won't.
I wish I had read the reviews first, had I known this supported gender delusion I wouldn't have supported the developer. Was interesting, too bad I couldn't go three pages without more gender delusion.
Awesome game, filled with historical Persian detail (Yes, I had to look up a lot of words; that's the advantage of a text-based thing. But if you don't want to do that, this game is maybe not for you.) and hard decisions. You can take some wildly diverging paths that give the game a lot of replayability.
Это одна из самых разочаровывающих игр от CoG. Нам столько всего наобещали - сеттинг древней Персии, стимпанк, магию, приключения, любовь. В итоге из полученного только сеттинг и есть. О стимпанке можете забыть, его тут нет даже в виде декораций. В конце нам показывают какой-то воздушный корабль без подробностей, буквально в духе "хэй, смотри чо у нас есть" - вот вам и все. Персонажи максимально неприятные ил просто картонки. Есть раздражающая принцесса (мне особенно понравилось описание ее усов и толстого круглого живота (я понимаю, что нам пытались передать традиции и восприятие красоты из другой культуру, но емана) - она типичный мажор, который решил поиграть в борцуна за справедливость. Якоб ей есть дело до простых людей (хотя по факту она просто хочет побесить свою мамку), у нас есть какой-то смазливый солдат правых взглядов (больше о нем даже сказать нечего), и есть революционер, о котором тоже нечего сказать. Вот эти три пирожка - наши любовные интересы. Из других героев вечно ноющий брат-игроман, который просирает деньги и просит нас горбатится за него, и дед, который по совместительству наш работодатель. Он, пожалуй, самый терпимый из всех, но мы знакомы без году неделю и он требует от нас полного доверия и опять же прикрытия его задницы. А еще у него радикально настроения дочь-революционерка, которая будет крыситься на нас и вести себя как последняя с*ка. Нашего бедного гг заставляют выбирать между верностью короне (имперцам-оккупантам, которые народ гг за людей не считают и их возглавляет мерзкая баба-тиран) и революционерами, которые говорят, что сражаются за простых людей, но когда эти простые люди гибнут из-за их террористической атаки их реакция "ну бывает, чо". Кому тут я должен сопереживать? Еще отдельным пунктом хочу отметить непонятную и неудобную статистику - совершенно не ясно какие варианты ответа приведут к определенным решениям (у меня из-за одной неверно выбранной фразы гг умер в шаге от финала. Моя оценка 2 из 10 за попытку.
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Interesting story and characters, good prose, and a unique setting. With the exception of the abrupt ending, I liked it a lot!
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