Max Massacre

Not bad for a free game. It's tough to like Max the protagonist who is kind of a pushover for the majority of the story.

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Dans un monde peuplé de monstres, de démons et d'autres créatures inhumaines, l'humanité n'est plus la race dominante. Les humains ne sont rien de plus que du bétail, nourri par des entités plus puissantes et chassé pour le sport. Les humains en général sont faibles, ils ne font même pas le poids face aux enfants de ceux qui les chassent, et ils le savent. La race humaine est en déclin constant, et d'ici peu, l'humanité n'existera plus. En tant qu'enfant né dans un tel monde, Max aspire à devenir un héros. Un puissant guerrier qui sauvera la race humaine de l'extinction, avec une force inouïe pour un garçon au seuil de l'âge adulte. Il est déjà le combattant le plus fort de son village au corps à corps, et il a tué sa part de monstres de bas étage. À dix-sept ans, il est en bonne voie pour devenir le héros qu'il aspire à être, et peu importe à quel point ses concitoyens le détestent et le méprisent pour son aura démoniaque, Max souhaite sauver chacun d'entre eux. Son amie d'enfance et amoureuse, Céleste, est toujours aux côtés de Max. Comme Max, elle possède une force incroyable et est de loin la sorcière la plus puissante du village. Elle est cultivée, intelligente, appréciée et très séduisante. C'est une jeune femme chanceuse à tous points de vue. Cependant, sous cette apparence aimable se cache un esprit bien plus cynique et impitoyable. Elle ne partage pas la vision de la vie de Max, pas plus qu'elle n'approuve son désir de devenir un héros ou de protéger ceux qui lui font du mal. Pour elle, les humains ne valent pas mieux que les démons qui les oppriment, et elle quitterait volontiers leur village en flammes, si seulement Max voulait bien l'accompagner. Alors que Max et Céleste mènent une vie routinière dans le petit village qu'ils appellent leur maison, leurs points de vue divergents sur le monde s'affrontent chaque jour, chacun essayant de convaincre l'autre de voir la lumière. Mais comme les autres villageois vivent tous dans la peur et le mépris de Max, et qu'ils n'hésitent pas un instant à montrer ce qu'ils ressentent, Céleste a un avantage certain. Elle pense que ce n'est qu'une question de temps avant que Max ne réalise à quel point il a été un imbécile, et avec le niveau de malveillance dirigé vers Max qui augmente de jour en jour, elle pourrait bien avoir raison. Max parviendra-t-il à convaincre Céleste que la race humaine mérite d'être protégée ? Ou bien Celeste prouvera-t-elle une fois pour toutes à Max que son ennemi n'est pas l'espèce démoniaque, mais les visages familiers de ceux qui nient son humanité ? Les points forts : * Des personnages modélisés et détaillés de manière unique. * Des scènes de haute qualité. * Entièrement gratuits Les points faibles : * En anglais seulement Vous recevrez 5 succès facilement. Je recommande ce court roman graphique pour le plaisir d'une bonne lecture. Amicalement, Le pasteur .

"Max Massacre" isn't a game. It's an e-book dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual novel/e-book/fan-fiction, this has no notable gameplay. It's just clicking through badly written dialogue that would never be accepted in print by an actual professional publisher. How did something this badly written end up on Steam? When someone can't get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam Direct under the guise of a game. This is exactly in the middle of what we expect for garbage Steam E-books... this is a high school anime club dropout fan-fiction about the author and his imaginary anime girlfriend called "Celeste". The book follows a godawful cringey plot about fighting monsters and the author having conversations with his imaginary girlfriend. Because this was put together with the Ren'Py e-book construction kit, it didn't require any actual coding or development. It's a tool for failed authors to push their garbage high school anime club dropout fanfictions as games. Just like there's no professional writing here, there isn't any professional software development either. Visual novels/e-books are the worst way to try read a book (and they're always written far worse than real books too). Imagine reading your favorite book, be that War and Peace or The Davinci Code (are you ok??), but you have to click the mouse for every single sentence that appears. You'd hate it. It's a garbage way to try read a book... and even if it wasn't, this still isn't a game. Now imagine that experience with much worse writing. If these guys could write professionally, they'd be in bookstores. They wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam. But here we are. There's no reason for this to be on Steam when it could just be a webpage... e-books are just a bunch of cringe text and (usually character generator created) static 2D imagery. You don't buy an expensive gaming PC to use it for something your web browser can do for free. A peak of 3 concurrent readers for a free visual novel/e-book is a disaster. Out of 130 million potential gamers, almost nobody was interested. That level of rejection speaks for how badly written this is. To put this into perspective, to satisfy the global demand for this book, you'd only ever need to print 3 copies. That's what failure looks like. While this garbage cringe e-book has no up-front cost, you can find genuinely professionally written novels and comics at a public library or through websites like Project Gutenberg. Your PC isn't a Kindle, and I can't recommend non-game e-book visual novels to people looking for PC games.

Zetsubou games are quite short, but nicely told stories, though sometimes going a bit overboard with choice options and consequences, same thing was present here. Gameplaywise it's visual novel, there is pretty much only one choice in game, since as mentioned it is short one, so it's pretty much a linear story. Visually Max Massacre looks decent, nothing outstanding, but distinct enough to not be roped with ton of short VN slop present on steam. Though, that's mostly about characters, backgrounds are something you'd not notice if they were to be copy pasted anywhere else. Audio is basic, it's short free VN, what else would you expect. Plot is about living in a prejudice filled place, where you are an outcast, but there is a close person with you. That single choice in the game though gives you two very drastic options with extreme consequences. While one of them is kinda okaish, other one is too much in my opinion. If you play, you'd see what I meant. All in all - this is decent title, and it's free so you won't lose anything if you like VN and try it, also does not take much time.

Visual novel breve ma davvero carina con due finali che sono abbastanza originali, soprattutto la good ending. Onestamente consigliato per passare una oretta e mezza in tranquillità.