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[h1] Цикл историй с логическими загадками [/h1] [code] Необычно поданная игра в пиксельном варианте. Нам рассказывают истории, разбавленные загадками [/code] Отлично всё сделано: музыка, герои, интересно читать и фотографировать...но загадки бесят, игра воспринимается именно как чтение с некоторыми действиями. Было бы неплохо добавить быстрый "скип" головоломок. Пусть кто-то и воспринимает их как обязательную составляющую, но мне кажется, что и без них игра необычная и интересная. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DrQgj1RXjA [i] Всё что вы хотели знать об играх и боялись спросить, подписывайтесь на куратора [/i] [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/33768709/] Activation from: October 19 [/url]

I really like the game's narrative, the heartstring pulling stories, the beautifully detailed pixel graphics complimented and explored with the camera lens mechanics. What ruined the emotional experience for me were the puzzles. The game is divided into five characters' tragic tales, each character has their own puzzle game. The puzzles are fine maybe even a bit fun but not enough for me to play that same buggy puzzle ten times per character, it gets irritating very fast. A single character segment is 30 minutes long at most but only 5 of those minutes are devoted to the story while during the other 25 we're forced into puzzles that don't work well half the time (puzzles froze on me so I had to force the game off and on to finish them) and get aggravating really fast. The way story and puzzles are combined and exchanged is the worst. You begin with a fraction of the story that's 30 seconds long than you get a puzzle 2 minuteslong if you're smart, come back to the story for 30 more seconds, forced back into that same puzzle, 30 seconds more of story, puzzle again, copy and paste for 30 minutes. You finished that character, do the same for four more characters, 5 minutes of storytelling accompanied with 25 minutes of annoying iffy puzzles per character. When you've finished the 5 character segments, you will play the role of God and choose which character to grant them, not a happy ending, a less tragic ending. The choice is not straightforward since you have to play essentially a tug of war game between the characters to reach your chosen one, which I like as it makes choosing emotionally harder especially when they're pleading for your help. When you have chosen your character, what's your reward? You don't get additional story. Instead you play those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ puzzles again 3 more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ times and then greeted with the credits with extra character images. Honestly, I didn't even reach one character's ending let alone five. As soon as those puzzles showed up again, I got fed up, turned off the game and watched the endings online. These stories really beautiful so humanly painful. Characters coming from all walks of life, they're paths are diverse colorful yet so sad I adore them. But those puzzles ruined my emotional investment in the stories. What emotions I had for the the characters were quickly replaced by frustration. So frustrating for so little story, all so one character can get a less painful conclusion and you don't even see it conveyed properly, lousy payoff. The developers should really put more time and quality to the stories, take more advantage of the camera mechanics and cut down on those puzzles. If you're still interested the game, wait for it to go on sale.