Into Blue Valley

"Into Blue Valley" ist ein sehr kurzes First-Person Exploration Game. Wir finden eine alte VHS-Kassette, legen sie ein und was wir darauf sehen werden ist das, was wir in dem Spiel machen werden. Wir sehen also ständig alles aus der Sicht einer VHS-Kamera nebst Timer, Akkuanzeige und Rec-Symbol. Das Ganze in schwacher Bildqualität und in blau getaucht. Auch Bildfehler sind immer wieder präsent. Währenddessen kommentieren diejenigen, die sich diese VHS-Kassette anschauen immer wieder das, was wir im Game machen. Leider nur durch Texteinblendung, eine echte Synchronisation wäre noch atmosphärischer geworden. Diese Grundstruktur ist atmosphärisch und funktioniert gut. Auch die Grafik ist in Ordnung. Die Sounds sind teils sogar recht gut gelungen. Problematisch wirds hingegen beim Gameplay. Zum Einen ist das Game verdammt kurz. In zwanzig Minuten ist man durch, wenn man sich Zeit läßt. Währenddessen gilt es nur in einem verlassenen Dorf und seiner Umgebung Nachrichten zu lesen und acht Gegenstände einzusammeln (Slender, ick hör dir trapsen), die man dann später nochmal alle nur benötigt, um eine Geheimtür zu öffnen. Das offene, unbefriedigende Ende wär auch noch in Ordnung, aber das Game ist rum, bevor man sich überhaupt drauf einlassen kann. Zum Anderen... oh, Spiel schon aus. Und so bleibt das Gefühl eines kurzen, vergessenswürdigen Zwischenspiels, das trotz guter Atmosphäre keinen bleibenden Eindruck zu hinterlassen vermag. [h1]Wertung:[/h1] 7/10 Atmosphäre 5/10 Story 6/10 Grafik 7/10 Sound 5/10 Spielmechanik 3/10 Balancing 5/10 Spielspass [h1]Fazit:[/h1] Zu kurz, um wahr zu sein. [h1][b]5/10 Gesamtwertung

What is Into Blue Valley? Genre: first person exploration with mystery and horror elements (kind of) Setting: abandoned winter village hiding a secret Difficulty: 1/10 --> walk and collect items. nothing challenging at all Length: 20 to 60 minutes for a single playthrough Mode: singleplayer campaign The positive aspects: - graphics are nice (freezing camera lens) and strenghten ... - ... the game's atmosphere which is generally creepy - beautiful soundtrack The negative aspects: - flat story. At the end, open questions are left unanswered, no explanation why the protagonist is there, does what he does there, is looking for there at all - very short - no challenge, which would be ok if you could immerse into the story deeply. but you can't because there is none, so it's a minus Result (and summary for those who have no time reading): Into Blue Valley is short, it lacks challenge and content, and there is no deep story. You do not miss anything not buying this game. Maybe worth a tryout at sales time, but not for the regular price.

Le contenu famélique et le chalenge inexistant de ce très court simulateur de marche agrémenté d’un minuscule zeste d’exploration en rebuteront assurément plus d’un ! Into Blue Valley fait partie de ces expériences qui ne sont pas réellement des "jeux" à proprement parler, et qui ne s’adressent donc certainement pas à tout le monde. Pour ma part, la très faible durée de vie (30min) et l'interactivité minimale avec le décor ne sont absolument pas des tares rédhibitoires – mais si pour vous ça l’est, autant ne pas vous attarder sur ce titre. J’ai adoré cette très jolie balade tranquille à l’ambiance parfaitement maitrisée et réussie, tant sur le plan esthétique que sonore. L’atmosphère étrange et glacée de ce petit village désert figé dans ses congères m’a parue très attachante. La narration est correcte, (quelques textes - en anglais uniquement) et je trouve que contrairement à d’autres simulateurs de marche moins réussis sur bien des plans [i](j’ai en tête "Drizzlepath" & "The lost Valley"…)[/i], celui-ci parvient assez habilement à augmenter légèrement mais agréablement son intérêt et son côté "exploration" grâce aux quelques objets à collecter. Mais ce, sans pour autant rajouter la moindre difficulté, puisque même si le terrain offre une liberté d’exploration totale, la localisation des items est "balisée" à fond. Pour info, le pad Xbox 360 est parfaitement pris en charge. Quelques reproches : [list] [*]-Un tarif de 10€ me semble bien trop élevé pour ce type de produit. Par contre, soldé à 3,99€, le rapport qualité/quantité/prix devient plus honnête, [u]et je le conseillerai donc uniquement à ce prix-là.[/u] [*]-Certains des textes de narration défilent automatiquement, et parfois un peu trop vite. [*]-Si je conçois parfaitement que ce jeu tourne autour du concept d’une cassette vidéo et qu’un filtre "caméscope" (avec les lignes de cadrage à l’écran en permanence) soit donc parfaitement logique et dans le ton de l’histoire, j’ai trouvé dommage qu’il ne soit pas désactivable [i](par exemple en bonus une fois le jeu terminé)[/i] pour profiter plus agréablement des magnifiques environnements enneigés.[/list]

Симулятор ходьбы. Бродишь и читаешь записки. Пусто, скучно. Из плюсов, только приятная спокойная музыка на фоне. Если хотите походить и получить эмоции, советую Dear Esther.

No option to invert Y-axis and does not work with Polynomial or Sakasa. A couple years ago the developer promised an update to remedy this and it never happened.

The premise of the story is that a friend of yours has come across an old VHS tape of a person who is exploring a town known as 'Blue Valley' whose town people have mysteriously disappeared. Your friend comments on this tape as you watch it together, a tape which for some reason you can control what it sees? The big mystery of why everyone is dead? Why there is a massive temple hiding an extra-terrestrial tree? Why do vanishing people want the camera man dead? And why a camcorder seems to have infinite power on zero battery life is never really explained? Hence the whole walking around adventure seems rather pointless at the end. NOTHING is answered. The even bigger mystery which this game offers which I would really like solved is this ... Why is there even ONE positive review to this game when there clearly should be NONE whatsoever. Why do you ask? Well let’s start with the fact that the programming is so bad you can walk off cliffs, get stuck in stair wells, see through boulders, become one with a picket fence and have the game have a psychotic crash causing reboot for absolutely no reason. Should I continue??? The whole cheap gimmick of 'found footage' does not work. You NEVER really feel that you’re a part of anything. Why? Because your brain should have enough common sense to tell you that you should not be able to control VHS footage found. On top of this, the developer has sacrificed voice acting for flashing written messages on screen like cheaply done subtitles which just ruins any moment of realism. The objective of just walking around a town to discover how many bugs you can find does not make good entertainment. The only puzzle in the game is to find eight objects with the word 'obtain' visually placed over the top of them. This again ruins any feeling of realism you may get. You need to place the aforementioned items on the eight podiums in the temple. A secret stairwell will then appear which sends you to an ice dungeon that houses a gigantic tree. This tree has a stairwell/ portal which apparently leads to a beyond. It's really not hard to find 8 objects which have big words 'obtain' over them, but still you will somehow probably more likely find bugs before you find the objects in question. The game was made, rushed, botched and forsaken by these people http://www.kuchalu.co.uk/ . I really don't get it? Are we that starved for good games that we will now give a thumbs up if a developer at least gets one thing right? While the musical score is good, it sadly gets drummed out by the snow storm? Likewise, while the graphics are top-notch, they're effect has little positive impact since your experience will be constantly jarred by bugs and badly developed game play. How can one admire a flower in a paddock of muck and mire??? Seriously the game is so pointless since it doesn't answer a damn thing and is so badly orchestrated in coding that the game sent me into a blue depression. With half-hearted presentation and sparse narrative, and a cold meaningless setting with nothing really important to say left me deeply saddened and plagued with only one question ‘how do I get out of this Blue Valley they have put me in?’ Complete game below to settle your curiosity… https://youtu.be/VNmQqYc6mgo If you enjoyed reading this review please subscribe to my curator page. Thanks... http://store.steampowered.com/curator/6843548/

I'll say straight off that I only reccomend this game if you can get it on sale, as you can beat it in 20 minutes, and it's $9.99. However, it is a beautiful game with a wonderful atmosphere, and if there was more game I would love it.

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9686972/]Follow "[b]First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games[/b]" for more games like this![/url][/quote] I'd give this a "neutral" if I could. It was better than I expected, but still not great. The game gave [i]just[/i] enough of a mystery to keep me interested. Unfortunately that mystery is barely explained or expanded upon, aside from a lazy ending. The music was great and very mood-setting. The mapping was fairly well done, though there's a bit too much copy+paste in places. There's no options menu (lol?) so hopefully the sensitivity works for your setup. It takes about 30 minutes to beat. If you love walking simulators like me, it's worth getting on sale.

Into Bug Valley..... crashes after the first ~20 minutes- fixing cache doesn't help. Waste of money.....

Очень красивая, короткая кхм...новелка. Да, все что вы делаете это ходите и читаете. Но не скажу что игра плохая. Посидеть вполне сойдет разок. Денег своих она конечно не стоит. Берите исключительно со скидкой!!!