The Far Rings: A Space Opera Visual Novella

If you like the genre, this is a short-ish VN with a pretty good scifi alien/human story and nice art. I guess the choices really matter because I did not understand why I got the ending I did. One play through was enough, so take care on your choices. I didn't really find it compelling enough to try for different endings.

I have mixed feelings about this free visual novel. First, the music and sound design is decent enough, and I do like the art. The story is kind of interesting, in theory, but it was kind of a slog to get thought. Steam says I played it for 2 hours, but it felt longer. The creator has an obvious bent in the direction of what I see as woke nonsense, but this was not particularly aggressive about it. I'd dare say some of it made some amount of sense all things considered within context. There was some voice acting, and that was also pretty decent, but it more or less ends fairly early on. I discovered on the boards that there was meant to be more, but some of the audio files were lost so much of it just didn't make it into the game. I got a bad ending (I'm unsure how many endings there are, but mine was objectively bad, as the game explicitly told me so). Though, I was actually ok with it and am not sure I'm going back for another play through. And I'll give it this much credit, while it does have a slant that goes against my own, not only was it not overly aggressive with it, but it didn't try to make everything black and white and obvious. It was playing with some concepts of trust, loyalty, kinship, belonging, and home. I guess if it wasn't free, I'd probably be a bit more harsh on it, but considering it is free, it's not too shabby. Hardly the best piece of free media I've engaged with on Steam, but not even close to the worst so over all it gets a big, MEH...

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onöy gotten 1 2 endings so far(1 bad one good) and nice game so far, can't wait 2 get 2 the other routes

Игра погружает в эпичную космооперу с интригующим сюжетом и сложным выбором. Великолепная рисовка и саундтрек создают неповторимую атмосферу. Диалоги и характеры прописаны с душой. Не хватает большего влияния решений на концовки, но это не портит впечатления от захватывающего путешествия.

Una novela visual que tiene una historia interesante con muchas opciones y variados finales. Tus decisiones importan y te hacen acercarte más o menos hacia tus compañeros de viaje, el comandante de la nave y un supuesto enemigo capturado, de dos razas en guerra. En cuanto al aspecto sonoro, tiene una música que resulta un poco repetitiva aunque se notan diferentes canciones según el momento en el que transcurra la historia. Bajo mi punto de vista, creo que debería de tener un poco más de variedad, así y todo. Visualmente, cumple con lo que se espera de una novela visual. Sin grandes alardes pero con unos gráficos consistentes en donde se pueden ver las diferentes reacciones de los protagonistas. En definitiva, dale una oportunidad si te gusta leer y que "te cuenten" una historia en la que puedes tomar ciertas decisiones.