Monorail Stories

I'll give it a like, because feel you really have to dislike a game to give it a thumbs down, but realistically, if I were rating on a five star scale, it would be more like three stars out of five. I really liked the voice acting; in particular, I definitely felt the emotions of the characters, and in many voice-acted games, the affect is flat. With one caveat; who ever did the English localization had British dialect in mind, while the voice actors have American accents. This leads to occasional infelicities; Americans do not say "Oi!," very much a British locution. The game very much wants you to play through multiple times, to lead to different endings, and that's fine, so far as it goes; but there is no virtual-novel-like skip feature, so you wind up banging keys to get through to the next bit when you've seen it before. And the UX is that the top dialog choice is always default, so you the the risk of inadvertently choosing an option you didn't actually want as you slap rapidly through dialog. There is no player-save, only "continue," so that can be a problem. In addition, some of the endings happen rather quickly, resulting in an unsatisfying narrative, and since there is no player-save, this requires a complete restart. The graphics are perfectly okay for what they are; retro pixel art in a side-scrolling game, but that's a design choice, and not criticizing on that score. My hours on record involve four complete play-throughs; so obviously, I found something to like to explore that far. But you'll note that's still under four hours; the headline price for the game is silly given what it provides. On the other hand, I bought on sale for <$6, and do feel I recieved value for that money. So: buy on sale maybe, there are good things about this game, but there are aspects I would describe as pretty amateurish.

i dont know if the heat this game has gotten is deserved. it is a point n click adventure, and like any of those it has its own world and twists. there's multiple endings and ways to handle things. i thought finishing sylvie and ahmal would unlock more playable characters, was a little strange to have character selection when there is never more than one option.

Short and Sweet - Trying to clear my long backlog by playing shorter games according to HLTB Voice Acting well done and both main characters likeable. Got one of the "bad endings" and although it only took me 1-2 hours I will replay at a later stage. It looks like you cannot reload a previous save but the game has lot of choices. Unsure what bearing that has on the overall ending.

I think the title screen may actually be the best part of the game. It paints a picture of a charming game about two cities connected by a monorail, but the mechanics and writing fail to deliver. You just walk up and down the same train with largely the same people and same points of interaction, with nothing really interesting happening at any point. Conversations are forgettable at best and the voice acting sometimes makes the already janky dialogue even worse. I like the premise, I like the visual style and I like to support games like this, so I'd love to be able to recommend this, but since even my first playthrough is feeling like a chore, I just can't.

I backed this game on Kickstarter and I have to say I am really disappointed with the final product. The inputs lock-up and prevent you from progressing. There wasn't much thought put into this game.

напишу на русском отзыв, несмотря на то, что русского языка в игре нет. так как с точки зрения практики языка на уровне a2-b2 — идеально. сама по себе история приятная, очень понравилась работа с персонажами, хотя моя концовка скорее разочаровала.

5/10 interesting concept but very buggy

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cn need. 中文必要。商店页面没好评，销量也不行，还是不差评了，希望能暖原厂商的心，发奋图强。 202401，steam，steam掉卡抵扣，它处自定义包入的本体约6元。爱人如己，目前就这，看以后追评。

Kurzes Spiel, aber mit einem sehr interessanten Konzept, das bei mir einen guten Eindruck hinterlassen hat. Während des Steam-Sales gekauft.