Solo

[h1]Forever Alone[/h1] Hablemos del concepto de Solo. "Solo" es un juego en el que a través de preguntas intenta ayudarte a superar conflictos o rupturas de parejas haciéndote reflexionar sobre tus ideas preestablecidas. Además de esto el juego tiene una parte jugable de resolución de puzles plataformeros para poder avanzar. De primeras el juego te hace una serie de preguntas: género, orientación afectivo-sexual y el nombre de la persona amada o que has amado. Además de eso tienes que elegir entre 3 personajes para sentirte representado. Y aquí ya tenemos el primer fallo por sus limitadas opciones (un joven, una mujer y un cincuentón). Según la opción que elijas tendrás como amado uno de los otros dos avatares. Entre las mecánicas de plataformas podemos ver que la mayoría se basa en poder llegar a la cima a través de bloques y para ello el juego te da una vara mágica y un paracaídas. Aparte de esto tendremos una cámara y una guitarra para algunas misiones opcionales. Gráficamente el juego es correcto. Son unos islotes con una estética mediterránea buena pero sin llegar a deslumbrar. En general me ha dado la sensación de parecer un proyecto de fin de carrera. Lo que ha hecho que "Solo" no tenga nota positiva es la mala experiencia a la hora de retomar mi partida. En un principio salvé el juego (te tienes que sentar en un banco) en el primer archipiélago. Mi sorpresa fue que al cargar la partida no tenia ni el bastón mágico ni el paracaídas (y sin sonido) haciéndose imposible avanzar por lo que tuve que empezar desde el principio. La segunda vez avancé hasta la tercera isla (casi al final) y me pasó lo mismo por lo que todo lo que había avanzado lo perdí y lógicamente no iba a empezar una nueva partida por lo que he dejado el juego sin terminar. [u][b]Pros[/b][/u]: ✅ El concepto y las preguntas que te hacen reflexionar ✅ Un juego tranquilo para un finde (si no lo arruinaran los bugs) [u][b]Contras[/b][/u]: ❌ Solo 3 personajes. ❌ Precio alto para lo que da. ❌❌ Los Bugs (especialmente el de salvado). [u][b]Conclusión[/b][/u]: Siento darle reseña negativa a este juego pero es que me ha sido imposible terminarlo por los bugs que me he encontrado. "Solo" es un juego original por los temas que trata pero sus creadores no han querido solucionar los problemas de salvados después de años. [h2]Nota: [b]4/10[/b][/h2] [u][h2][url=steampowered.com/curator/45277685]🎮🌵Más reseñas en mi mentor🌵🎮[/url][/h2][/u]

Solo's a cute little game but there is a fatal and known bug, as you can see on the Steam forums, where if you exit the game and reopen it, your save file will corrupt: the game will play without sound, your inventory will be reset to the beginning of the game, and you will no longer have access to the item you need to complete puzzles. There is, as best as I can tell, no solution to this -- you simply have to restart the game. I am not sure if this affects everyone who exits and reopens the game, but it looks like it's been an issue since 2021 and the developers do not appear to be in business anymore as they have not responded to threads here or attempts to contact them off Steam.

Solo is a fairly pretentious third person puzzle platformer that is visually quite lovely, but let down by fairly lackluster gameplay, tragically lame writing, and an absolutely brutal bug that will make you lose inventory items if you save the game and then come back to it later, forcing you to do the whole game in one bloody go. Positives: -Graphics- I like lo-poly third person games, so this is right up my alley. Nothing spectacular, but these graphics get the job done, and the islands are aesthetically quite pretty. -Gameplay- The puzzles are decent, if a little repetitive. Meh: -Music- Not atrocious, but pretty ho-hum -Jank- Some of the movement is more than a little janky, which can make moving about the islands and solving the puzzles a little more difficult than normal. Negatives: -Writing- It's facile, emo-drivel....look, I love emotional games, and I don't mind getting onion-eyes from some powerfully evoked feelings in a game, but this is just hackneyed, banal, and lame. It doesn't make me consider and reflect upon my relationships and how I've dealt with my romantic partners over the years. It just makes me roll my eyes and fight my gag-reflex. -Bugs- There is a critical bug that causes inventory items to disappear after saving the game and then restarting it later. I lost almost two hours of playtime on my first attempt to play the game because when I restarted the next night, I had lost the music notes, the parachute, the magic staff....almost everything. So, I started over, played for just under an hour, saved and quit to go get a beverage....and when I restarted, it had happened again! So, I literally was forced to go from 9:00 p.m. till bloody near midnight just so I could finish it in one run. So, totally NOT recommended!

Game is bugged and literally unplayable unless played in a single sitting. Judging from community posts, I am not the only person to have this problem. I quit out of the game to take a break, and when I came back, there was no sound and the conversation I needed to have to progress causes the game to freeze. The game itself is....fine. The puzzles are pretty simple and the narrative, such as it is, has some potential but never spends enough time on any one thing to really provoke much more than superficial reflection. Based on achievement descriptions, I suspect I was about 2/3 of the way through a bug destroyed my ability to progress. I don't think I'll be trying again.

As others have said, the game itself is good. However, the major bug where items are lost and can't be regained without restarting means that I can't recommend it.

Not very engaging, or introspective. Has a cute aesthetic, but the gameplay is severely lacking. I assume it was made for very young kids? Moving blocks around with pseudo-deep questions and thoughts from colorful abstract entities.

Good little game ruined for never solved gamebreaking bugs. Avoid.

I tried this game, and I got past the first area, but I got a loading screen that would not end. And I wasn't that interested in the game after that.

Like many others I've experienced the bug where upon loading a mid-game save, you no longer have items required to complete some of the puzzles, thus making the game unbeatable. Also, though I never completed the game, a lot of the message that I was getting from it seemed to be "those who don't experience love just haven't been in a relationship yet" when that is far from my own experience at all. I've been in several relationships, none of which have ever felt very fulfilling or different from not being in a relationship. It just was. Since realising my lack of interest in it (and I guess aromanticism / demisexuality) I've more fully embraced my lack of interest in it. If it happens, great! If not, cool! Though initially I was sceptical that the game would cater towards the interest of people who aren't looking for romance, which changed to excitement when some of the responses seemed to veer in that direction, and then quickly plummeted back down at the responses that the game seemed to suggest at it. If you can get it very cheap, then sure. Otherwise, eh.

the save system is broken, when you leave and exit to the desktop, you can load your save, but the inventory is empty, all ingame items are gone, you stuck. or you want to sit on the bench with a ghost, to lower a bridge, with reload, there is no ghost, you can sit down, but then you can nothing do, you have to alt f4 the game - last patch from 2018, developer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. btw. when you want to make a picture of a fish, hey its broken too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . the fish only jumps one time, so you have a exit to the menu and continue loop, to let them respawn.