Heileen 2: The Hands Of Fate

this genre is the worst, why are they making crap like this.

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Well let's see here Heileen 2. It’s uh much longer than the first one. There are way more endings and many more things that affect the outcome of your story. The game starts the same no matter what ending you got in the first game so that was a bit disheartening. Any way I felt this one did fill in some gaps about the character’s past like Otto and Lora what happened with Heileen’s parents. I would say its okay although I still hate Heileen as a character. Also this one seemed to drag on for bit.

[h1]只堪平庸[/h1] 总评： 不作全价购买推荐，不作单独购买推荐。 第一部评测（瞎扯）链接： http://steamcommunity.com/id/lenkimo/recommended/302950/ 【TL;DR】 * 第一部主要角色全部神隐到回忆里的第二部。 - 靠超自然强制推进的跳跃剧情。 * 以回忆杀来铺展剧情、引出第一部的主要角色。 * 不算出彩的配音。 * 配乐神游。 《Heileen》系列是由 Winter Wolves 于 2008 至 2012 年先后推出的视觉小说三部曲，分别是《Sail Away》《The Hands Of Fate》《New Horizons》。本作即为系列第二部。 在第一部的海难结局后，在本作中海琳漂流到了某个不知名的海岛上，与她同样在海岛上的还有在第一部结尾才出现的艾柏丽（Ebele，一译埃伯勒，不过考虑到这是个女角色所以取前者）和罗伯特（Robert），剧情则围绕三人如何在岛上寻求生机并离开而展开。 尽管是荒岛求生，但是故事并不着力于此，而是引出了七张美德塔罗牌与七张罪恶塔罗牌以及一张魔法地图。地图指引着海琳一行穿越海岛，并最终为人所救，逃出生天。在探索过程中，海伦借着带有魔力的塔罗牌，穿梭于过去与其它梦境间，在不同的时空和年龄阶段里与第一部的主要角色会面，揭开回忆，获得道具，为现实的探索铺路。 这是一种很狡猾的剧情推进方式。借助海琳手里的塔罗牌在梦境里穿行，只要作出了正确的选择就能获得对应的道具，从而破除现实中荒岛探险里无法逾越的迷局。而不正确的选择就会导向大量的 BE，这也成为了本作几乎唯一的趣味所在。因为主线剧情本身定然是了无风波了。只能搞一些错误选择和 BE 来丰富玩家的体验。 突如其来地，本作为除了海琳以外的所有角色都添加了配音，包括在海琳的梦境中第一作主要角色和其它边边角角的角色都有配音，唯读主角海琳没有配音。这可能是制作方出于玩家的代入感的考虑，不过海琳的角色已经是这番独立了也确实没有什么代入感可言…… 至于配音的水平，并不能说优秀，还是能隐隐地感觉到一种刻意感。说得委婉一些就是诚意已至但实力不足。 与此相较，本作的配乐基本等于神游。没有语音的间隙基本靠效果音来支撑，还有海琳每次吹海风来一个大特写时来的一小段。 至于那个不知怎么就哭一场的特色依旧从第一作沿袭至今，到现在还是让人觉得特别莫名。虽都是说到动情时潸然泪下，但是“至于吗”的疑问依旧久飘不散。 比起第一作，本作最终呈现出的效果不算太差。但是这种无限依靠超自然力量来推进剧情的方式并不能说值得提倡。 依旧，游戏发售过集合包与慈善包。以同价位的其它视觉小说或是 Gal 来看，无论是单款作品的价位还是三部曲加起来总价，与相近价位的其他作品相比，说不上优秀，只堪平庸。

I have enjoyed playing this visual novel. Events take place around late 15th or early 16th century on a Caribbean island. You take the role of the young Heileen who is cast away there with her african friends. The story is interesting, and hold many different endings depending on your choices. The game art is drawn very well, characters look attractive and the backgrounds are beautiful. Would play it again some time in the future to check out different ending. I recommend.

i found the voices of most of the toons irritating. the cards were also badly implemented in my opinion. i mean you do a card then you get the item after the dream. it just makes it just dumb. oh look a rope now i have one in real life. the voices of ebele and robert were fine. they were done just right. but the story is all over the place. i couldn't be bothered to get the rest of the endings. there is 13 total.

I think this is the best game in the Heileen Bundle, not too simple or not too unnecessary complicated. I loved how my choices shaped the story with tarot cards. These games are not completely a dating sim, they have a good story and they "can" be a dating sim if you want, that is the best part i guess.

Heileen washed up on a desert island with Robert and Ebele. The game focuses on the relationship between the 3 and on the influence of cards. You’ll be able to either miss to signal to a ship or not and have a surprise of what kind of people they are. Heileen discovers a tarot of cards. Each time you choose a virtue or a sin attitude in a dream, it will have consequences in the real world (bring you something useful, feel uneasy…). You have an ending to each virtue and sin. You’ll find indigenous inhabitants and a funny way of getting out from them. You’ll learn much more about Heileen and Marie’s childhood, how they met Marcus, who’s one of the characters as an adult! From one side I found Ebele extremely jealous with Robert, but on the other side she seems to seduce Heileen. I loved Black the cat’s voice with an Italian accent. Robert’s voice is so deep. Splendid artworks of the characters will provide cool screenshots. It’s worthy to play to see how choices influence the unfolding of the story, which result is given according to your score and have a bit of morale lessons.

Heileen 2 is a ham-fisted attempt at moralizing and romance, with little to recommend it. The main character is unbearable, and the other characters in the VN are unbelievable.

If this novella isn't going to be free, then it should at least cost a couple of cents, no more, but certainly not $5.