OPUS: Rocket of Whispers

I stumbled upon this game a while back on the Google play store. It had a free demo which I loved so much. Sadly, because I was a kid, I couldn't buy the full version. Years later, the name suddenly popped in my head, and Iooked the game up again and found it had a steam version! I bought the game and it was worth every cent. Awesome soundtrack. Slowburn story. Great dynamics. And lovable cast. To keep this review fair I also need to list my complaints. The game got a little repetitive with finding the items required to fix the rocket. The game was also extremely short, and left me wanting way more than what I had. The epilogue was great but needs to be downloaded seperately, which was a hasstle. Other than that it was a 10/10 experience that got me to buy the entire Opus series. If you like slice of life media, visual novels, great scenery, and awesome soundtracks you should buy this game.

遊戲步調微慢，遊戲性薄弱，著重在音樂與故事的小品步行模擬佳作

some bugs and the slow plot style but think it an early game of sigono… if u can adapt those drawbacks opus rocket of whispers will be a fantastic game that create you fond memories.

I first played through [i]Rocket of Whispers[/i] in 2018 – back then I thought it was a beautiful story and concept wrapped with some clunky mechanics. I liked it a lot, but being a short 4-5 hour experience I expected to forget about it soon enough. It turns out the story stayed with me much longer and more strongly than I expected – My grandmother passed away about 18 months after I played, and this is the first piece of media that came to mind as I looked to put my feelings in order. ‘Rocket of Whispers’ is named aptly- it’s a quiet game, based around the premise of two people, possibly the last on their world, attempting to perform a final ritualistic ‘space burial’. This involves launching a rocket to reach the fringe of space, a ceremony designed to bring peace to those who have died. The story both past and present unfolds as one of the player-protagonists, John, scavenges the landscape around the rocket factory for the materials needed to complete the mission. It can be a frustrating process, John is impeded by the environment, sometimes unclear direction, and the often-irritated voices of the ‘spirits’ of the departed who demand that he do better. In my first playthrough I labelled the difficulty in navigating as a game-design flaw, but the next time around I saw that the experience mirrors John’s own perception of the tasks: pointless, dangerous fetch-quests in pursuit of hollow ritual. The other survivor, Fei, remains steadfast in her dedication even as she doubts her ability to engineer a rocket capable of fulfilling the task before her, and quietly resents her deceased friends and mentors for placing such a responsibility on her alone. Her relationship with John and the conversations/arguments that the two share about the process of launching the space burial form the core of what ‘Rocket of Whispers’ has to say about death, grief, tradition and finding peace after tragedy. SIGONO has gone on to make a number of wonderful, narrative focused games after this one- both [i]Echoes of Starsong[/i] and [i]Prism Peak[/i] are small masterpieces in their own right, and both of them are more technically advanced and fleshed out both as stories and as games, but I still think [i]Rocket of Whispers[/i] might be my favourite. There’s something about the simplicity here, the unvoiced dialogue, the vectored, but expressive character designs that allows your mind to fill in personally resonant blanks. The single repeated line, “May the living find comfort, and the dead return in peace.” Has stayed with me for years now, bubbling to the surface of my mind at funerals, the deaths of pets and reminiscent conversations about the past. Finally, I love the conclusion of the story and wouldn’t change a thing about it, but sometimes I’m still haunted by the question of just what happened to John and Fei after the credits roll. Who will launch a space burial for them?

本来以为是普通捡垃圾，结果是个意外的好故事，非常温馨。

换硬盘导致存档丢失最后云完了，说实话其实不是很想推荐但也确实找不出什么差评的点，属于无功无过吧，6/10，游戏玩法几乎就是重复捡垃圾-被灵魂折磨-回家和女主拌嘴，主线剧情几乎没有产生过什么波澜，结局渴望亲情的二人于灵魂之桥相会还是会稍微有些触动，剩余碎片化剧情都在捡到的垃圾里，于主角二人组而言大部分也仅是旁观者视角，仅仅是对伪末世背景的补充无法对角色本身的塑造添色，即使从游戏背景设定的层面来讲，这点只言片语也撑不起一个足够有趣的时代本身；总结来说，制作组想要讲一个末世中二人灵魂救赎的故事，也仅仅在字面上讲完了这个故事，实在令人惋惜，火箭、女巫、灵魂、疫情，这几个横跨时代与文化的符号联系起来时，本该有机会产生美妙的化学反应

Simply Beautiful.Worth every penny. 12/10 recommended

sigono we love you

夏促打折入手，终于大降价了！承载了太多回忆的独立游戏[spoiler]（当年初中凌晨四点通宵玩ios移植的demo是被家长抓包了所以印象特别深笑）[/spoiler]，混合着一点解谜的冒险剧情向游戏。 很温柔的故事，两位主角就这样在疫后的世界孤独的成为彼此的陪伴，互相扶持着完成了带着灵魂飞上宇宙的告别仪式。 结尾带来的震惊足够，但总给我一点又不够缺点完整叙事的感觉，留白太多不够完善世界观事件结尾，虽然背景很完善，但是细究一下东西：[spoiler]比如约翰怎么在荒无人烟的小镇里活下来的这种，而对于约翰的人物角色的塑造要是再细腻一点就好了。[/spoiler]还有通关后自由模式好像有bug点不动…… 当然这款属于OPUS系列第二款游戏且超级老[strike]（现在都出到第四款）[/strike]，缺点在我眼里已经聊胜于无了，更是因为灵魂之桥一直在关注制作公司，回过头来发现原来它已经成为[b]我心中的独游白月光了[/b]。

This game was a rollercoaster of emotions at the end of the playtime