The Final Prize is Soup

Игра "The Final Prize is Soup" - это очаровательное и абсурдное приключение, полное неожиданных поворотов и юмора. Визуальный стиль, нарочито простой и пиксельный, придает игре своеобразный шарм, который отлично сочетается с её странным, но притягательным сюжетом. Геймплей представляет собой смесь point-and-click адвенчуры и головоломок, где вам предстоит решать нетривиальные задачи в абсурдных ситуациях, чтобы в конечном итоге добраться до... супа! В игре полно запоминающихся персонажей, диалоги с которыми вызывают улыбку, а иногда и громкий смех. Уровень сложности сбалансирован таким образом, чтобы игра не казалась слишком простой, но и не разочаровывала своей нелогичностью. В большинстве случаев решения головоломок хоть и странные, но логичные в рамках представленного игрового мира. "The Final Prize is Soup" - это отличный выбор для тех, кто ищет короткую, но запоминающуюся игру с оригинальным подходом и не боится окунуться в мир абсурда ради финальной тарелки супа. Это прекрасный способ скоротать пару часов и получить заряд хорошего настроения. Рекомендую!

[spoiler]Finally I can get eaten by my girlfriend(s)[/spoiler]

"The Final Prize is Soup" is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This garbage e-book is square in the middle of what we've come to expect from high school anime club dropout fan-fiction writers shoving non-game garbage onto Steam. This is a fan-fiction about the authors imaginary anime girlfriend. There's a mild horror theme, and that horror is that Valve lets high school anime club dropouts publish fan-fictions about their imaginary girlfriends onto Steam as if they were games. This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when otherwise we might have been spared the pollution. So, just like no professional writing took place here, no professional software development took place, either. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at only 5 concurrent readers... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. The funny thing is, if you wanted to print this book, you'd only need to print 5 copies to satisfy the entire world's demand for it. While this E-book has no up-front cost, you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

You wouldn't NOT download a free horror yuri visual novel!

Thoughtful, pretty well written. Interesting cosmology. Worth a few hours if you like a good horror yuri VN.

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