Sunset's Ashes

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Новелла из интересного "течения": когда авторы строят всю историю вокруг одного сюжетного поворота, который неизменно оказывается постной чухнёй и делает её ещё хуже, чем она была до него. «Sunset's Ashes» идёт ещё дальше: у неё нет даже базового жанрового инструментария — ни полноценных настроек, ни сохранений, ни возможности пропускать уже прочитанный текст.

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Birlikte ilk kez bir dağa tırmanırken anılarını paylaşan Alex ve Nic'in kısa öyküsünü deneyimleyin. Alex yıllardır tırmanışlara gidiyor ve Nic'in de katılmasını sağlamaya çalışıyor. Bu onlar için birlikte hayatlarını hatırlamaları ve bu tırmanışın neden bu kadar önemli olduğunu bilmeleri için bir şans.

Short, emotional visual novel. It was enjoyable.

[b]⊕[/b]The digital paintings are rather pretty. There’s about six of them. The VN is dialogue-driven, so it’s conversational and easy to follow. Its concept is small, but not gimped: Everything is wrapped up nicely. [b]⊖[/b]There are no character sprites and the interface is dated and lacking presence. The characters are flat-out annoying, and their basic banter had me falling asleep at my desk. The only funny part is that the male is a relentless assman. The Pay-to-100% annoys me very much, because I didn’t find out until it was the only achievement left. That behavior targets achievement-hunters, which strikes me as very con-artisty. I would have even been cooler with a post-game request for a donation, or for even the whole game to be a dollar in price over that. You get an extremely negligible amount of content for that dollar, so just make it the entry price for god’s sake. [b]✎[/b]Sunset’s Ashes strikes me as a person’s first project.The lovely painted scenery brings it up but it takes nasty hits for being dull, crashing on me twice for no discernible reason, and of course, the paid achievement. Art-lovers and VN fans will rate this game higher, but I give it a resounding “Don’t Bother” unless you want to either see your Avg Game Completion Rate go down or get muscled into giving up money for a prologue. [table] [tr] [th][h1]SCORE:4/10[/h1][/th] [th][h1]▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░[/h1][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td][h1]VISUALS:[/h1][/td] [td][h1]▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░[/h1][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][h1]SOUND:[/h1][/td] [td][h1]▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░[/h1][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][h1]STORY:[/h1][/td] [td][h1]▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░[/h1][/td] [/tr] [/table]