Scarlet Hollow

This one is deep, thrilling and excited narrative game I've played this year so far! Storyline keeps you intriguing all the way, you are care each and every significant person in a town. Most interesting method, used by developers, connected to "gray morality". You will face it for sure, and many questions and doubts will drill your brain: - Should I trust him/her? - Who is really evil here? - What if I will do an opposite choice? - Should I tell you that? - And many-many more... Special thanks for small warinings before your hero can die. Great, that these moments are not in all of a sudden manner. Love "think - think twice - then do" algorithm, it's close to me. These are Pros, and what about Cons? So far (after all 5 Episodes) I've noticed only one - some discussion points between heroes are abolutely useless or a little silly, given the context of environment. But this is not common through the game, so doesn't affect the final mark. ------------------------ ------------------------ VERDICT: 10 Books of Magic out of 10! Breathtaking and brilliant narrative game. Recommended for everyone, who loves mystical and non-trivial stories with interesting characters!

好推，我已經等不及更新了，雖然已經通關第五章，但是它給我的震憾應該會停留很久 ，文本量超級多，因為選項分支帶來的劇情差異也很多，比較可惜的是存檔槽位對我來說有點少 因為它分支這麼多....，很想再重玩幾次看劇情分支，不過存檔都被我用光了，有不少存檔我捨不得覆蓋掉 查一下它推出時間是2021，看來能玩到最後一章要等很久的時間 等遊戲出到最後一章再來反覆重玩好了 太喜歡了

peak writing

me and my friends would've killed ditchlings with hammers I can tell you that much

You can actually just interact with the characters with the expectation that they will respond naturally to what you do (i.e. roleplay, immerse yourself). That might not sound like a big deal but it is. Typical game narratives try to give you the feeling of an immersive story by all kinds of methods to get you to suspend your disbelief, but if you pay attention (or you overthink things) you can see they're pretty shallow. It's especially apparent on later playthroughs when you try to really screw around and realize how railroaded the story actually is. This game looks like a visual novel but if you've played any other VN you know that you can sense right away how the game is putting you on one of a handful of predefined routes, and that you have to do certain things to get the route you want or the "best" route, and it's hard to play those games without having that awareness take over the way that you play (i.e. metagaming). The amount of possible world states in this game is enormous. There are surely world states that the devs haven't even thought of, but that are still coherent story-wise, because it's an emergent narrative with many moving pieces, not just single a branching tree. The game (and its characters) track pretty much *everything* you do. Characters each have their own view of you tracked on a bunch of different axes (this is never shown in-game, you just see the effects of it, which is what makes the characters feel real. That, and how they have their own things going on, they have their own secrets and goals and when they're not with you they're doing something else, sometimes they're interacting with each other and that has huge consequences later, some might lie right to your face the whole game without you realizing, some might give you a fake smile while actually thinking you're the most annoying person they've ever met. There are huge sub-plots with tons of dialogue and custom background art and so on that are completely missable and you will definitely miss some of them on a first playthrough (you can't do everything). And you can feel that while you're playing it, that there are other drastically different ways things could have gone. There's literally no other game like it, this becomes apparent after you've played it.

holy peak need part 6 asap

I LOVE THIS GAME FHAWKHWJ