Smiling Misery

ANÁLISIS: -Arte 10/10 -Doblaje 10/10 -España 10/10 Resumen: GOD kbron

An interesting little text adventure about life, love and loss. With the earthen colour palette, strong shapes and shading the visuals evoke medieval art while still being its own style. Each screen has its own piece of music which is appropriately atmospheric as well as enjoyably calm for a reading experience. The voice acting is decent though it is obvious that most of the voice actors used different microphones and some of the audio could be tweaked a bit more, but for a free game it is more than good enough. Throughout the game you get to hear the personal stories of the various characters and their outlooks on life. The dialogue tree with a character resets every time when ending a conversation with them and starting another one. On the one hand that makes it relatively easy to read through all possible dialogue options, but on the other hand it makes the dialogue feel very inconsequential. Overall while some aspects are still rough around the edges the story content is quite good, so I can certainly recommend it as a short read of about one hour if you exhaust all dialogue options.

Smiling Misery is the privileged and naive jester Margo's attempt at learning about how horrible life can be. While all of the dialogue has English subtitles, the audio is only in Spanish and it's easy to accidentally skip through conversations. I appreciate some of the introspective conversations. Now to head off on a journey to seek happiness. 3/10

Está de locoossss, me encanta el dibujo y el doblaje

"Smiling Misery" is a poorly made e-book with some side scrolling adventure game elements where you take on the role of a very happy court jester girl who seeks out a way to be unhappy. The poor premise is met by equally poor writing, even worse translation, and next to no meaningful gameplay beyond reading garbage e-book text. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static text/images... it might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design.. "Show, don't tell." So you'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written VN text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with reading a book for your time. We're here to play games, not read through hours of garbage intersituals. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 4 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

Me parece una genialidad, el doblaje e historia están muy bien pensados, y aunque corto y simple, es una buena experiencia. El gameplay se asemeja a una especie de libro interactivo, sin llegar a ser una novela visual o una aventura point and click.