A simple kaidan with Evangelion cicadas in bg: lure
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[th]Commentary[/th]
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[td]Cost-benefit[/td]
[td]75/100[/td]
[td] It's free and short, but I played two times to actually check for a different ending, maybe changing fishing positions? Well, no. That was disappointing. [/td]
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[td]Aesthetics[/td]
[td]65/100[/td]
[td]Unremarkable style; maybe the absence of the Old Man's face is a nice touch, or maybe just a limitation. [/td]
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[td]Performance[/td]
[td]90/100[/td]
[td]Very simple, so very light game; -10 for not running natively on Linux. [/td]
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[td]Soundscape[/td]
[td]75/100[/td]
[td] Good transitions from the road to shrine. The cicadas are nice; I'm still not sure if they're like a free audio used by many studios or something? It sounded like EVA cicadas, tho cicadas are cicadas. Also the cicadas DO NOT speak Japanese, in this game.[/td]
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[td]Gameplay[/td]
[td]65/100[/td]
[td]It delivers a short audiovisual (not so much intereractable) story, so there's not much gameplay involved. I gues there's more walking, thinking and feeling (as a player) involved, more than playing or ludemes. It does feels like some kind of a nightmare; the aspect or ritual of it; like "Bring me more two and you get the prize", and when you go back, it's the same, but also not the same. And then something happens. Brilliant![/td]
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[td]Ludicity[/td]
[td]50/100[/td]
[td]Is decent ludology, particularly the ending. The fact you can't really control much is not so fun tho.[/td]
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[td]Playability[/td]
[td]85/100[/td]
[td]Well it walks, talks and fishes, that's better then a real fish OR a real wheelchaired fisherman. Also it feels good on controller.[/td]
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[td]Interface[/td]
[td]N/A[/td]
[td] There's none. A little oddity. [/td]
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[td]Casuistry[/td]
[td]45/100[/td]
[td]Offers no variety moral choices; there's no choice at all. However, you could argue it could be about ambition. But after the second fish, you can return without approaching the bait, to find the road empty and the Old Man gone; as you have to go back to complete the game, there's no real rewards, besides the final catharsis.[/td]
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[td]Theocentricity[/td]
[td]55/100[/td]
[td]It proposes at least a metaphysical or transcendental intervention [spoiler]for the player in the end,[spoiler], at least, considering the [spoiler]creature that appears[/spoiler], but it's very open to interpretation (that doesn't mean imagination).[/td]
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[td]Narrative[/td]
[td]25/100[/td]
[td]Poor and very predictable.[/td]
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[td]Replayability[/td]
[td]15/100[/td]
[td]Not worth the time to replay at all for me or a majority of people, as it seems. But the game is free[/td]
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[td][b]Synthesis (Final Score)[/b][/td]
[td][b]61/100[/b][/td]
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I will not write a full review on lure as I wouldn't recommend it. And thanks for the fish!
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