Heroes Rise: The Prodigy

I like Choice of Games products, but this one is far inferior to the others I have played.

Classic

This one is not bad, its not good either. But if this game is in discount and you love text base game and hero go for it.

Fun on the first playthrough, but any subsequent playthroughs will show you that many of your decisions didn't really matter as you'll still be shoehorned into the same plot, regardless of if it fits your narrative decisions. Other titles by this dev seemed much more branching, so I would only suggest this if you intend to do a single runthrough and not to try out the majority of routes.

This game is alright a solid 7/10. Near the middle it's get engaging with a bit of a surprise at the end, but nothing amazing to be honest. The writing has it's cringe moments certain characters are just to based on stereotypes, and the character interaction tends to feel kinda rushed. I feel like this game would have benefited being maybe a few hours longer just to flush out characters a bit more, but I enjoyed my time with the game and want to try the others.

[h1]Is this game worth its price tag? Yes, it is. However, its price tag is also illustrative of its limitations[/h1] Heroes Rise - The Prodigy is what anyone that read the game description should expect it to be: a text adventure about superheroes. Was it fun? For the most part it was. Is it worth your time and the price? Yes, I would say so. Was it good? Well... "just maybe", I guess? You see, this is game with a number of flaws that end up forgiven because of its price tag. And most of the flaws have to do with the writing, and when your game is literally all about the writing, I expected a bit more. Let me explain what I mean, and keep in mind I still recommend (6,5/10) this game despite all that I'll say about it: [b]Point A:[/b] *the writing and the plot as a whole kind of feels like you are reading fan fiction. Is it enjoyable but it is also definitely not perfect. To me, the things that contribute to this impression the most are: 1) [u]the really odd pacing:[/u] up until around chapter 10 things go perfectly fine in this regard, but from that point on you start to feel like you are having major events thrown at you at every turn: a world-ending mission in the morning, a call to meet the president in the afternoon, and a date with a victoria secret model at night. All this while you just started your career as a lowly rookie unknown hero the day before. The point is: the story progresses way to fast, like in a anime adaptation where the producers decided to skip a good number of chapters from the manga, and with that comes plot holes and inconsistencies. 2) [u]the horny teenager mindset:[/u] the narrative has wayyyy too many unnecessary sexual overtones, and it just feels weird. It might seems harsh, but the best way to describe it is as if the author was reminiscing his adolescence (or maybe this was the authors' main target audience, that would make sense as well). 3) [u]the "no-real-choice" issue:[/u] multiple reviews complain that the game does not give you many real choices, and sure, that may or may not be true, but it did not bother me for the most part. What did bother me, though, was that this sometimes led to me being locked into some truly nonsensical and frustrating situations (e.g., you said you don't want anything to do with the girl? to bad, the game will put you in a romantic scene with your character in love with her anyway [unless you were 100% a scumbag in all prior interactions]). [b]Point B:[/b] *the whole morality/inclinations sliders (and power/health numbers as well) feel like a smokescreen. They are way less nuanced than the game makes you think they are, especially because there is no middle ground, so you always end up forced into one side or the other (which leads to story developments that sometimes make little sense). [b]Point C:[/b] *the game's approach to the topic of queer and inclusivity is implemented in a way that feels so forced and blunt - almost to a cartoonish degree - while also repeatedly making effort to remind you that it is there. Do we really need things like "you open the door and in a TMZ-shockingly-way find "Muscular Man A" (who you just met) making up with "Smart Old Man 1" (that two minutes ago made a point of making you know that he was bisexual)?" I am quite certain that there are far more realistic and subtle (and even respectable) ways to approach the topic. [b]Final verdict:[/b] So, after all that, what I can say is that "Yes, I had a good time" playing the game, but also that I'll most likely not be playing the next 2 installments in the series. I liked my experience enough to go give this type of games more chances, but I'll probably be avoiding games wrote by this author.

Awesome.

An interesting superherogame, not that different from the standart superhero-story, but well made. Still, it suffers from some of the general choice of games flaws like forced character interaction, scripted defeats to advance the story and rather forced love-interest. It seems also somewhat biased agaist defensive and lawless builds, so playing a straight up hero is presented as the golden way, even as there are other options. Not enough different outcomes for choices. But the writting is superb and really engaging, so i dont mind the flaws to much. Edit: I still recommend the game, i do not recommend the trilogy. Its to much of a sadist show to enjoy. The everyone dumps on the mc and they struggel agaist all odds was fine in this game, but not so much when it happend constanley in every other game. That just negates choices and carthasis. Also, if you dont play as the ultimate and perfect hero, it will go worse for you and the game will constantley call you out. This is frustrating, because after how much s_it the MC goes through, they are absolutley justified in hating people. If you dont share the authors views on heroism and other political stuff, you will not enjoy this.

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy é bom, muito bom. Sinto que a falta de outras opções de linguagem de texto prejudica o jogo, já que nem todos compreendem inglês, mas fazer o que. De qualquer forma, a história me prendeu, gostei do mundo e dos personagens apresentados. Também percebi que as decisões de meio afetam muito pouco o desenvolver do jogo, dando um aspecto muito linear para boa parte da narrativa. No entanto, reconheço que, ao chegar próximo do fim, as coisas acabam reverberando e afetando, de maneira ampla, o desfecho final. Como minha primeira experiência nessa modalidade livro-jogo ou livro interativo, posso dizer que foi uma ótima experiência e recomendo, principalmente, para quem curte leitura. NOTA: 8,0/10,0

extremely over-the-top woke, it's extremely shoehorned in, it is to the point you can't simply ignore it. it's a shame because it could have been immersive if it weren't for the fact it breaks it's own immersion by using weird pronouns, making a point of inserting sexuality and a host of other dog-whistles. this "game" is closer to a propaganda/normalisation piece. I really gave it a fair shot but it doesn't let up.