Stories of Mara

At this time, I can't recommend it to anyone else. From Summer in Mara I already knew I loved the characters and setting. This is on the state of the game itself- a broken, buggy, glitched out mess that badly needs updates to fix things. There are dialogue boxes that belong to the wrong characters, random crashes, no save slots, no screen resolution options, the game being unable to be continued at all when it comes to making something for Saimi; you have to make the right combination or the text doesn't appear and you have to delete your save and start over from the very beginning, and some regular text boxes that need fixing, along with some spelling errors that need tidying. I haven't seen any word from the devs on the Mara games, just them moved on to other games and not replying to bug threads on these. People have been asking for years now and met with silence. Also, after all this time, there's only one chapter and no word on when/if the devs are going to continue this or not. I understand being a small team but the lack of communication is incredibly off-putting and while you're releasing other games when these need work. I love the setting, the characters, art. Once the Mara games get the fixes they need(especially this one), I'll gladly change my review in a heartbeat! I want to see this get fixed and continued, see where the story goes. It's great to see things from other characters perspectives. I just ask the devs to give it the love it deserves before churning out yet another game while leaving this one in the dust. Note: I don't know if future chapters would cost anything, but the first one at least is free, so marked that just in-case.

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Çeşitli karakterlerin hayatlarından bölümler halinde kesitler içeren etkileyici Mara Hikayeleri'ne dalın. Komşularınızı tanıyın ve onlarla bağ kurun, ama… Birbirlerine yardım etmeleri için bir arada kalmalarını sağlayabilir misiniz?

This is kind of an abuse of steams "free" section.. Only the first part is free but they want you to buy all following chapters? The dialog is really boring and useless. Just stick to Summer of Mara

I don't recommend stories of Mara because the visual novel is written badly and the game play does a nasty job. The dialogue is long, boring and contains ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. A lot of meaningless words and conversation make the novel unattractive. There isn't game slot for saving the game. The artwork is not appealing, either.

The "free" section of Steam is being abused for marketing and advertising. "Stories of Mara" isn't a game, it's an advertisement for the rest of the e-book and you're expected to pay real cash money to unlock the full high school anime club dropout fan-fiction... no thanks. At no point should anyone just trying to find a real, complete PC game on Steam have to deal with an advertisement for a garbage e-book instead. As an advertisement for a visual novel, this has no notable gameplay. It's just clicking through badly written, cringey fan-fiction tryhard dialogue that wouldn't be accepted in print by any real book publisher. How did such garbage end up on Steam? When failed authors can't get published in print (and possibly laughed at by publishers), they spend $100 to dump their high school fan-fiction e-book onto Steam under the guise of a game... but this time they made the conscious choice to try mislead gamers with this incorrectly published demo. To prove the author of this garbage e-book and corresponding advertisement is abusing the free section of Steam for the purpose of marketing garbage, here's the correct process that [i]the author deliberately did not follow:[/i] https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos This e-book is intended to be an advertisement for a series of badly written and badly translated Spanish high school anime club dropout fan-fictions related to another game series called "Summer in Mara"... whew. So this is a bit like an advert for an advert. The author indicated an intention to publish episodic content for this garbage e-book, but didn't bother when it turned out people don't actually like incomplete garbage high school fan-fictions being published on Steam as if they are games. Visual novels/e-books are the worst way to try read a book (and they're always written far worse than real books too). Imagine reading your favorite book, be that War and Peace or The Davinci Code (are you ok??), but you have to click the mouse for every single sentence that appears. You'd hate it. It's a garbage way to try read a book... and even if it wasn't, this still isn't a game. Now imagine that experience with much worse writing. If these guys could write professionally, they'd be in bookstores. They wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam. But here we are. There's no reason for this to be on Steam when it could just be a webpage... e-books are just a bunch of cringe text and (usually character generator created) static 2D imagery. You don't buy an expensive gaming PC to use it for something your web browser can do for free. In terms of public reception, this having no up-front cost still didn't help. SteamDB stats show this peaked at a tiny handful of readers and then cratered. With a peak count of just a dozen or so readers, it's safe to say the PC community wisely decided to ignore this. Advertisements aren't games. This advert for a cringey amateur fan-fiction is just a commercial trying to get your money. It takes up store space that should go to genuine game developers who make real, complete PC games for gamers. You shouldn't support authors who use Steam to dump ads for their badly written fan-fictions.

[b]Stories of Mara[/b] to przyjemny tytuł z gatunku powieści wizualnej, której to fabuła rozgrywająca się po wydarzeniach występujących w produkcji Summer in Mara, przenosząca gracza do kolorowego świata wracającego do normalności po inwazji obcych. Akcja toczyć się będzie na tropikalnej wyspie Qälis, gdzie gracz wcielając się w rolę miejscowej kowalki Akaji, nawiązującej relację z jej nietypowymi mieszkańcami, starając się odnaleźć zaginioną przyjaciółkę – Koa. Nie jest to tytuł dla każdego to pewne. To specyficzna rozgrywka bazująca głownie na tekstowym szkielecie rozgrywki w której to gracz będzie obrazkowo eksplorował poszczególne lokalizacje danej wyspy, prowadząc rozmowy z jej mieszkańcami, podejmując decyzje, których konsekwencje będą oddziaływać na dalszy jej przebieg. Warto też podkreślić tu jedną rzecz, obecnie jest dostępny tylko pierwszy rozdział fabuły, na kolejne niestety będziemy musieli poczekać (kiedyś być może się ukażą). Na obecną chwilę produkcja jest udostępniana za darmo, więc warto spróbować – choć niestety nie ma w niej polskiej lokalizacji (napisów). [quote]Zachęcam wszystkich do obserwacji [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32785706/ ]kuratora[/url], by na bieżąco otrzymywać świeże informacje o nowo zrecenzowanych tytułach.[/quote]