Pathmaster

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[b]자세하진 않지만 다양한 경우의 수를 풀어내는 소설[/b]에 흥미가 있다면 꼭 해볼만 하다. 쪼개서 소설의 부분부분을 보여주는 느낌으로 분량이 방대하지 않아도 다양한 이야기를 볼 수 있는게 좋다. 다만 떡밥이 풀리지 않아 자꾸 지들만 아는 이야기 하는 느낌도 들고 개인적으론 일러스트도 다 똑같이 생긴거 같아서 아쉽다. 주사위 쏟아지는 연출은 아직도 왜 넣었는지 의문

Initially, I was going to recommend this game, but there are just a lot of things going against it. The story world and a few characters are fairly interesting. The story beats are good and it's a neat idea overall. The music and artwork were good as well. The main reason I don't recommend this game is that the translation is rough. It appears to be machine-translated or at least not very cleaned up. It's comprehensible but a lot of details are lost. It happens throughout the whole read as well. Here is one small example: "But some weird phenomenon not letting Rand out of the forest." There was a section near the start that wasn't translated and was all in Korean. I believe this was the part that explained the routes screen. Because of this I played without a proper explanation but could guess what the idea was: to try out all the paths by completing the mini-game differently. Other than that sometimes random Korean or things like "$Player}'s" would be in sentences. The roll credits ending just kinda happens if you get a specific ending and it's pretty anti-climactic for the overarching story. After that, I finished the other endings and got all the scene CGs. The fun is more in seeing how the different routes turn out which was sometimes enjoyable. Having to repeatedly win and or lose a mini-game during a route gets repetitive and leads to jumbled stories where you don't have context. I believe this was done in an attempt to pace the experience instead of getting long stories one after another. You get a character story then you have to almost mindlessly go through the process again and again with the mini-game and cards. Perhaps instead after you've either won or lost the mini-game for each card you could just choose to turn the cards up or down when trying subsequent routes. Also just cut out most of the "remembering" scenes that require you to win or lose the mini-game for each card multiple times.