Of Frost and Flowers

SUPER!!!

Of Frost and Flowers is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This Choose Your Own Adventure e-book is square in the middle of what we should expect from your average high school anime club dropout fan-fiction, and to make sure it's packed to the limits with cringe, it's all about the author's favourite subject, his imaginary girlfriend/waifu. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at only 5 concurrent readers... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. The funny thing is, if you wanted to print this book, you'd only need to print 5 copies to satsify the entire world's demand for it. While this E-book is "free", you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

无配音的免费精品，唯一的遗憾是如果cg跟立绘一样好看该多好啊...？每次刚被叙事打动就被丑cg逗笑了。 mvp：银花，好几次危难之际主角团都是靠银花挽回一命。 虽然女主是强壮骑士的设定，但世界观有魔法......女主作为不会魔法的近身战士，只能靠纯体术战胜敌人了，这也就是女主为什么总被吐槽是强壮的大猩猩......剧情除此之外就没有槽点了。 可攻略男主有三位。 [spoiler]其中一位是女主的小竹马，完全不看书的体能笨蛋，虽然一周目女主也没看书导致be了，和女主打打闹闹着长大的，有预感恋爱后女主也不会停止捉弄小竹马。 kisha，我的本命，可以全程无读档就能直通幸福结局的温柔术师。意外地很适合病弱，打猎什么的就靠女主来吧。he台词也太浪漫了，告白不是说我爱你，而是我们一起去环游世界——那当然是愿意啦。 隐藏男主是主线的灵魂人物。他在其他人的线疯狂散发魅力，结果到他的线才发现这家伙好幼稚啊。例如装鬼把女主吓一跳，想检查女主肠子有没有掉出来就想解女主衣服结果被打了。天啊，在共通线是明明那么靠谱的存在，轮到他自己的线了怎么变成关心则乱且喜闻乐见的男小三了，这就是反差萌吗？会说出“有一个神成为你的盾牌，你不该感到荣幸吗？”这样让人心动的话，也是唯一一个不是出门冒险，而是成为心灵港湾、女主的家的告白结局。 闺蜜塑造得也很好，乙游里少见的有自己感情线且是主角执念的闺蜜！居然有她单独的小剧场，好耶，是大家都幸福的结局。[/spoiler]

Hmmm... this is a very underwhelming for a visual novel. Sure, the artwork is okay but this is the first game I've played where the bonus scenes are drawn more poorly than when you see your character in the UI.... The choices don't feel like they really matter. It seems poorly rushed and is laughable. I just skipped most of the dialogue and only stayed for Misha. The author clearly favours Sol, the childhood friend of Alto (the MC), which is apparent by how many more scenes/dialogue he has. The background characters/gods in Sol's route has no value. Like their characters are drawn nice but nothing actually happens? The lore in this game is so bad as well, I wish the author did more with the snow people, did more with Frosty and developed their writing skills more.

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actually super cute game! love love<3

This game was something else. I waited to post this review until after I had viewed all the game's content, and made sure I unlocked every achievement. It's the reason I have 8.6 hours on my account. Now then, to start: I have always loved otome games and visual novels, and I believe this game intertwines the two seamlessly, creating a boundless story of danger, surprises, mild violence, and chaos. It really is a masterfully crafted game, I just only wish there was more content. Alto sounds a lot like me. Not only is she a young adult, but she was very tomboyish as a kid, and got in fights a lot. She was more often seen as a boy than a girl, which happened a lot to me when I was young too. She [spoiler]doesn't realize she's being hit on in Al'Sharah in Kisha's route[/spoiler], and is overall just very clumsy. I wish some of these didn't resonate so well with me, but they do. In addition, my username is often truncated to just "alto," which doesn't help matters. (It was a username I chose long ago, before I knew this game existed) Aside from that, out of all [spoiler]5[/spoiler] routes, I would have to say I liked [spoiler]Sol's[/spoiler] the best. Sure, the childhood friend trope is overused and honestly not that exciting, but certain game events, like [spoiler]them playfully teasing each other and the water fight at the en [/spoiler] really made me remember my own childhood and the happy memories associated with it. [spoiler]My 18th birthday party also ended in some sort of a water fight, so that scene especially brought out some emotions.[/spoiler] I can understand why this game may not be received positively by some individuals. The game's content can be lacking, the CG art style is definitely far from the best I've seen, and some of the routes are really easy to follow, and surprises can be seen from miles away. However, despite these mild problems, I found myself thoroughly invested in the game, waiting to see what happened next. I thank the developers for not only creating this masterpiece, but also making it free to play. I enjoyed finding a protagonist that I could easily imprint myself onto, and I would thoroughly recommend this game to anyone who comes across it. Updated to edit spoiler tags, as I have never used them before.

Good game to waste your evening on 6 / 10 The story is quite interesting, but the narrative is overblown: I swear I can comprise most of it in mere sentences without loosing anything significant The art is of various quality: some CGs made me cry tears of blood, for instance The logic is solid: the link between choices and consequences is rather obvious I don't like wining though, and other elements of narrative. So, I skipped most of it. By the end my had truly got tired 0-0 Nevertheless, I haven't missed anything of importance in the process. So, I stand my point regarding the overblown narrative.