STASIS: BONE TOTEM

The devs had to have been on moon juice or something with the amount of moon logic for the puzzles in this game. Unless you can read the minds of the devs don't even bother with this game.

The amount of ai art is overwhelming.

[h2] ------ TLDR; DO NOT buy this pathetic jank even for a cent --- [/h2] 4.5/10 [b]Short spoiler-free review after 3 playthroughs and 100%[/b] [hr][/hr] Story and Narration: Ignore the obviously paid out reviews by this incompetent studio who cannot for the love of *** write a coherent line of dialogue that does not sound like the work of a toddler. The dialogue is absolutely carried and compensated by the voice acting albeit over the top sometimes. The collectible logs are so lifeless and generic and are a snooze fest. Conveniently the ones important to the progress have less entries. The lore getting deeper and situation more dire trope has a half-assed execution failing to properly establish the character emotions and setting prior. The twist has 0 impact and 0 justification from any of the characters` perspectives despite a pretty large 5 chapter progress. Graphics and Design: It seems all the budget and development went on the [strike] wannabe [/strike] AAA cutscenes with awful facial expressions. Mac looks absolutely fried in some of the cutscenes and devs can/t decide which character model version of Charlie to use; so inconsistent and out of place. Moses is handled well throughout the game. The level design and graphics are decent nothing special for a modern CRPG. The audio design on the other hand really goes on to show why everyone working at this studio needs to quit and find a new hobby in life asap. Gameplay: The ever so convenient but unrealistic (even to this game`s standards) QSD inventory system is the only gameplay gimmick of this game apart from preposterous puzzles if you want to count them. Funnily enough items can be used on self but apart from "SECRET" scenes and one story moment this is never needed. ig "THE BROTHERHOOD" made a gameplay mechanic in the initial development and forgot about it as they made the game (wtf) No replayability other than for achievements (ridiculous "DONT SKIP DIALOGUE" ones) [rip ADHD peeps] ========================================== Just don\t not even on a sale

Much better than a number of other modern point & click games. Story is pretty interesting, though things drag towards the end. Voice acting is good, but I swear the VA for Charlie changed during a section in the middle. Puzzles are logical and the game respects your time with very minimal backtracking. Some sections where you have to trigger a specific conversation before some interactive spots become available. Visually nice mix of future tech and otherworldly creatures. I had a few visual bugs like misaligned textures, but nothing that interfered with playing. Audio was a bit lacking except for a few standout SFX. The soundtrack was decent to good. I hope this studio can get the budget they need to fully realize their vision in the future. The ideas were great, but sometimes the delivery couldn't match the ambition. Overall worth playing.

I don't think this is a good game. The gameplay just doesn't flow. The puzzles are basically mind reading what the devs intended. It's just endless variations of finding items, giving them to a different character, and using them on everything you possibly can. One of them might do something, not necessarily one that's logical. There's way too much descriptive text throughout the environments, none of it meaningful. It feels like it was written by AI, or just badly written. It's a whole bunch of adjectives crammed together in repetitive variations. Eventually I stopped reading it. There's way too much dialogue, all of it fully voiced and difficult to skip. There's actually an achievement for not skipping any dialogue. But the skipping doesn't even work properly. You have to press skip over and over because it doesn't seem to work, and that's just for one line. The dialogue is also slow to appear so you can't just read it yourself if you are a fast reader, you have to wait for the characters to slowly say it, or try to get it to skip and skim it in the PDA afterwards. It's so badly written that you aren't missing much. The characters are bad and unlikeable and I didn't care what happened to them. The story is uninteresting and the very long dialogue sequences get frustrating because they occur so much - pretty much every time you enter a new room. You cannot do anything while the dialogue is happening - you can't do the puizzles, you have to wait. The entire game is just swapping between long dialogue sequences and trying to solve the moon logic puzzles. I forced myself to finish, and eventually used the walkthrough that the devs literally provided, because they must know that the puzzles are bad. I hated playing this.

Pretentious, mediocre writing. Dull, annoying voice acting. Tedious, dated puzzles. If you think Brandon Sanderson novels are good, then you're the exact kind of normie slop-eater this game is aimed at.

An excellent horror romp in a unique universe, disturbing as disquieting, a lovely point and click puzzle game with a simultaneously depressing yet hopeful tale. The characters are well written, so that if you come to love or hate them, you fully understand and relate in some ways to what is revealed of them. The puzzle side of things is the important aspect of point and click genre, and I can say for the most part that you don't need to worry too much about Moon Logic tm behind the puzzles. Thankfully no pixel hunting to hide answers from you. A solid 8/10, pretty good for a point and click horror game.

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I don't know, I really wanted to like this game, I inspected every possible nook and cranny in this game ten times over because it just always felt like there should have been something more. I think the first half is pretty good but it really feels like the quality begins to be replaced with quantity in a way that doesn't benefit the game or the story it has to tell. Painfully slow an unimportant dialogue, characters that are unfortunately incredibly annoying that make decisions that make less and less sense. So much back tracking with no way to move faster, so much fumbling around if you get even remotely off course. What felt interesting at the start became arduous and punishing towards the end, and the story's explanation for everything at the end just didn't feel earned by the game up to that point. I appreciate the work put into this game, but genuinely I have no one I could really suggest it to. It was unfortunately more enjoyable as a let's play than it was a game for me.