Song of Farca

6/10 game. It is okay to play it through for the first time, but it does not have any re-playability - considering its price, I would lean towards not recommending it. The core mechanism is nice. You have split screen up and down with the upper life part and bottom hacking part. The puzzles are okay - but then it starts to be repetitive as you go deeper and deeper into the chapters. The only thing maintaining my interest is the storyline, which is not bad. However then, as I want to explore other endings, it soon becomes quite boring and repetitive. The game has a very bad saving design, so you have to play it through without any skipping to explore other choices. This makes me suffer and is very time-consuming and annoying. I end up giving it up. I would say the first playing experience is not bad, but it is hard to play it twice or more.

The first character we interact with gives us an unsolicited, unskippable lecture on gender dynamics, then the game goes on to introduce every character as "Cis Male" even though there are no transsexuals in the story, making this a meaningless differentiator thats only there for woke points. This is the kind of game where the developer cares more about attracting Blackrock funding than making an enjoyable game, and while you have to give them points for ambition for skipping right past the publisher phase and just going right to woke garbage, it doesn't make the game itself more fun to play.

pros: -split screen mechanism is unique -i liked the graphics cons: -im sorry but i hated the music -puzzles get really repetitive after 2 hours of gameplay -needs a skip dialogue feature desperately

玩起来还可以，没有什么复杂操作，下班点着玩，一看评论区怎么全是差评，关键是差评内容完全看不懂，在说什么

This game was crazy! What a gem. I've never been a fan of point and click games, but I could not stop playing this. Music could get repetitive at some points and I never improved at interrogating, but I enjoyed the story and the hacking part. It was such a clever idea the house arrest and use of dones, robots and cameras. I got the bad ending and I regret nothing about the last chapter. Overall 10/10 and would go down as one of my favorites.

I'm generally not a fan of this sort of art style and setting, but I figured I'd give it a shot just because it's a detective game. The game isn't very mechanically interesting to me. Just click all the cameras until something pops up. Rinse and repeat. I stopped playing once I got to the first interrogation because I didn't like the dialogue either. I'm fine with "woke" themes, especially when the characters are interesting. But here it feels like identity is shoehorned in. I figure if I played further, it would service the plot and make an overarching societal critique, which I'd very likely agree with. But I have no interest in going further because I think the dialogue is clunky and I don't like the core puzzle mechanics. This game has an audience, and I can understand why most reviews are positive, but this is definitely not the game for me.

I really like the art style and the dual framing POV as one navigates the game world set in Farca from house arrest