The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian

The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian is a sequel to The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante. The game starts around 10 years before the first game and puts you in the shoes of a completely different character and circumstances. Instead of a Human who has to fight for his path in life, we play as Prince Jerian. We follow him just like Sir Brante from his birth, learning about the world, your family and your place in everything. For people who never played the first one: Stop what you're doing and read the reviews of the first one. I wouldn't recommend playing this without having played the sequel. Not because the story builds upon each other, but because mechanically the first one is more simple and accesible for starters. For people who have played Sir Brante: keep reading. The sequel expands upon the mechanics of the first one. Being locked out of certain choices because you don't meet a skill requirement? Spend a resource that is connected to your ancestors, and let them help you compensate the skill difference. Or are you too loving to make this ruthless decision? Sacrifice your sanity to make a out of character choice. But your psyche will have to suffer the consequences... I've read reviews here that complain about knowing the requirements for certain outcomes or how hard it is to get certain outcomes, but seen as this was already a thing in the first game, i don't really understand it. The lore of the world, especially the religion of the Twins and the Arknian history gets more time to shine this game. No longer do the Arknians feel like special, almost mythical beings like in Sir Brante. Now they feel like just another annoyance to deal with to get what you want. PROS: - More lore - Getting "The most paragon/good ending" is even more difficult now, which is pretty realistic for what you want out of it. - More relationships, stats and skills to keep track off - I feel like there is alot more room to RP and focus on certain paths then there was previous game. - Some scenes really made me emotional because of the connection i built with certain characters, which i did not have in the first game. CONS: - The ending feels reeaaaally rushed. There is a cresendo building up to your actions, but rather than having us take part (even for just a little bit), it gets told in a historical accounting of it, in around 5 pages. They settle the score, measure out your stats and then just tell you what happened... Really disappointing. - You don't really get well informed about the consequences when you the Empire changes drastically in terms of ethics and values. The first time around i got hit by a triple punishment because i reformed the country to be it's extreme opposite of what it was. It ended my playthrough right there and then. I get why people in reviews complain about this mechanic in and of itself, but i do understand why and it made my retry actually more interesting and engaging for it. In conclusion: As a big fan of the first game, i actually really liked this sequel! I'm pretty satisfied with the ending i worked on, and i'm really looking forward to roleplaying different pathways and personas. This really is a setting full of potential. For the devs: Keep the sanity resource in the next game, and maybe try to make a ending more akin to the first one, or of your sequel but not rushed near the end. I can't wait to see what will be next, i really hope for a prequel during the time of the La-Tari, when the Arknians were conquering the continent.

Честно, не понравилось. Не цепляли меня ни герои, ни романтика с представленными девушками. Вот вообще не зашло. Соглашусь с некоторыми, демо-версия мне понравилась больше. Начиная с Главы Великий Цензор, я начал скучать и хуже вчитываться. Финал просто проскипывал. Долго ждал, но оказалось не очень.

Если коротко - игру советую. Нравились страдания Бранте, понравились страдания и Джериана. [b][i]Но вот история, из-за которой мои впечатления чутка омрачились.[/i][/b] Я как любитель прохождений без смертей в первом своем же заходе выбрал именно этот режим. Выбрал и спокойно играл 21 (ДВАДЦАТЬ ОДИН) час. В 4 главе начинается самый главный "симулятор калькулятора", где вам нужно аккуратно балансировать мятеж. У меня счетчик остановился на 7 из 10. Одно из решений увеличило Право в Империи на 10. После чего игра ВПЕРВЫЕ не предупредив после короткого описания моего величия БЕЗ ВАРИАНТОВ просто жахнула мне +2 мятежа и -2 к нововерам. Следом сработало граничное событие нововеров, где мне просто не удалось выбрать ничего кроме варианта с +1 мятежа и... игра мега резко закончилась. Никакого выбора, попытки отбиться. Ни использовать нажитых союзников (нафига мне эта Камилла была нужна всю игру с +5 в отношениях), ни заручиться помощью сословий. Просто финальное событие, неожиданное сухое описание по типу: "Вы слышите шаги за дверью. Вы проиграли". Очень жаль. До принятия Кредо оставалось 2 закона, в целом первый забег шел почти идеально. И из-за любви к челенджу (о котором за прохождение успел уже забыть, так как ни разу не возникало таких предсмертных ситуаций) концовка оказалась скомканной ) Но что поделаешь, такая вот у меня оказалась история Принца Джериана. Сражался за людей и Новую веру и сгнил в тюрьме из-за того что дал народу слишком много прав. Иронично!

Best game Ive played this year

本人在布兰特爵士一作花费了23个小时来达成各种刁钻的成就并参与了杰利安王子的第一章内容内测。目前我依旧认为Life and Suffering本质上是单周目的剧情杀和多周目的背板游戏，以下评测皆基于以上观点进行讨论。 [b] 个人给出的评分是6/10分，目前的内容上看并不值得它80元的售价。 [/b] 毫无疑问的是制作组将精力投入在了更多的表现力上面（即使许多图片与动画可能使用了AI甚至没有注明），文本上可能存在的使用AI进行翻译和缺乏校验我不再多提（本人不会俄语，无法对照原文）。生平与苦难的特色便是前两把熟悉路径，做成就时开始背板并进行各种无聊的平衡尝试。与前作对比，本作在数值上进行调整的尝试也无疑是失败的。引入“比例平衡度”的设定很大程度限制了玩家的自由抉择（你必须思考这里拿了多少数值，在哪里花掉，从哪里赚回来，又不因此失去过多更重要的数值），当然我并不反对如此做，只是与前作布兰特爵士的相对自由而言，这等限制很大程度让玩家真正体会到了什么是真正的生平与苦难... 更加具有争议的便是这一作的难度，与前作相比较，杰利安皇子从第一章就开始给玩家上压力。 [spoiler] 而且选择遵从自我几乎没有什么代价，因为得到老师认可的很多数值都可以在第二章赚回来，但是理智却是无法恢复的宝贵资源，达成进步线的好结局大多也需要自我认可，这种无意义的数值抉择会让玩家在反应过来以后立刻感到懊悔 [/spoiler] 从第二章更是要求你必须立刻掌握如何进行平衡，可以说前两章就已经足以让玩家感到沮丧。 [spoiler] 而且主角的家人一个比一个要求多，我为了做平等与和平改革让三个家人都吃到了“破碎的希望”，比起说这是为了体现皇子的牺牲，倒不如说是制作组的恶意满满。满足母亲会导向家族独裁制，满足父亲会导向倾向神权结局的路线，而满足神秘兄弟更是拿到了润出帝国的船票，只不过跟达成帝国的好结局可以说是一点关系都没有，想要推帝国改革就得“背叛”几乎所有亲近之人的信任。 [/spoiler] 第三章是数值最突飞猛进的一章，这一章与前作布兰特爵士的法官章节相似，难度极其大，可以说如果不想进行平衡之术，背叛或者进行妥协便一定会倒向坏结局，不过经历前两章的磨砺，也无需多言了。 至于四，五章是补缺用的，并决定皇子的结局，许多风味事件也发挥了作用。 Life and Suffering延续了前作的不可回溯（甚至更加变本加厉的增加了不能存档），目前而言没有攻略和运气是很难在前两次打出好结局的，并且这一作皇子的选择并不能在很大程度上决定某些人的命运，让人困惑的便在于此：游玩是为了改变，若无法改变，打下去的意义何在？只能选择重开，研究，背板。相比较下，本人在前作布兰特爵士上花费的时间和精力更让人感到愉悦。毕竟本作对数值平衡的要求实在烧脑，若是没有游玩过前作《布兰特爵士的生平与苦难》的新玩家，绝对会被第一章和第二章的许多压力局吓跑。 由上看...目前的售价与游戏质量毫无疑问是不匹配的，但是前作布兰特爵士目前仍在免费发放（本人写下本测评时是2026.7.22），依我的建议，布兰特爵士毫无疑问是在描绘小人物改变命运，影响世界，达成玩家心中美好结局与宿命这一方面表现的更好的一作。并且游玩布兰特爵士一作后才能更好理解杰利安皇子中的许多名词以及设定，至于本作，本人将其当作对前作的设定补充（毕竟确实出现了帝国地图以及许多阶层和更加细致的描写，在这一方面制作组并没有让玩家失望），只能说... [h2] 不打折 不建议买 [/h2]

A long awaited sequel to Sir Brante, that is simultaneously a huge achievement in innovation for the genre, while also double down on the critical flaws of the previous game. It is a very high brow sort of game, with strong literary merit, that has succumbed to the simple mistake of being overly long for its format and having artificially elongated writing that reflects this. Ultimately, my game ended pre-maturely with a tragic suicide and narratively, it was better for it. I really enjoyed the first game and while all the ingredients of this one are of surely, a better quality, the fidelity of the art and the music, art direction and initial formulae of storytelling all constitutes something objectively better... it is simply just not as good as it could be. The game, with all of its systems and mechanics, is simply too ambitious to fully render completely true to its intended potential. It is an undertaking that really requires such an immense amount of writing, that it is just impossible without an AAA level of writing and funding, but what we get instead is a mere emulation, a simulation of what the concept could be. But I cannot possibly begin to hate the game in anyway, it is very cool, very good and certainly, more enjoyable as a single playthrough compared to Brant's shorter length that preferred at least two or three. Ultimately, the biggest issue is the length and the pacing of it. Due to the length and density of the events packed into a single handful of years, everything loses its aura and impact. Ultimately, the game is unintentionally frustrating and at times, sauceless despite its inherit soul. The game would succeed greatly by having more variety in choices with more narrative impacts, rather than be as long as it is. The game can feel agonizingly slow and agonizingly brief at the same time. The writing has either been elongated from more minimalist styles or overly summarized from purple prose, regardless, it lacks a lot of weight and impact and artistic integrity in compromise to be more readable and accessible. As a result, you get a lot of brief summaries of significant choices in a matter of simple sentences with bluntness lacking any character. And in other occurrences, near meaningless interactions are overly long with characters acting as speaking avatars for their ideologies and unlike the first game, everyone feels like an unrepentant idealogue rather than an ideologically driven character. It is a shame because the setting of Arkanians, is incredibly rich and arguably, the best parts of the first game were your brief, second hand and parallel adventures and mishaps with Arkanians and the society they ruled. Unfortunately, removing the layers of mystery and intrigue and actually playing as an Arkanian completely diminishes what made them effective. Personally, I really excepted more because the noble, aristocratic, emperor-ruling set up is absolutely brilliant. Even Lenin admired the works of Chekhov despite hating and literally murdering the aristocratic class of oligarchic hedonists that often so populated the casts and settings of his works, as was the case with virtually all form of Russian high art that managed to survive the two revolutions. I, too, cannot help but find stories regarding the old world nobility and the Bonapartist characteristics of so many of its warrior houses and generals, to be spectacularly interesting ways to explore big personalities and characters that simply are not possible with the more common proletarian, ordinary class of denizens that populate modern nations. At the same time, I abhor the immorally rich and those born of bloodright who mindlessly drain their nations' coffers and hold onto archaic, dogmatic religious institutions and military traditions that effectively keep the nation in permanent stagnation. The game certainly allowed me to play with this borderline-nazbol experience of trying to turn the Blessed Arkanian Empire into a secular, materialist nation but with a more populist driven intranationalism. Sadly, the game's writing certainly does well to write the nuance that exists between the mechanics but the mechanics, ultimately, do not. And as a result, everything gets dummied down into left vs right rhetoric. More accurately, the Eastern European origins of the developers shows more appropriately in how a nation is less dictated by left wing and right wing as much as modern, conventional, post Cold War politics want to make us believe. In reality, the fundamental political struggle of the Bonapartist, pre-fascism and pre-communist era is actually "The Cops vs The Dorks". And a third position that manages to actually consolidate the best attributes of both the Cops and the Dorks, would be a superpower. Unfortunately, the Blessed Arkanian Empire is much like the late Russian Empire, a nation capable of immense progress but instead, is far more interested in colonizing itself. The Arkanian Empire is less a Rome parallel and more a Russian Empire one, a nation that truly, has long established a role of nobility that rivals the longevity of even the Japanese heirdom, and yet, one that is so completely and utterly byzantine in how disconnectedly dissonant and effortlessly factionalist the nation is, despite being an Absolute-Power Monarchy with some proto-Social Democracy (aka Woke Colonialism) for good measure. And despite being able to explore the lives and events of some past ancestors of the Arkanian's Tempest royal family, seeing clear parallels to the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, it is still very so blatantly clear that the Arkanians suffer from a classic case of Russian Revolutionary Self-Defeatism more than anything else. The progressivists hate you even for being progressive, detering rebellion will randomly have it grow anyways for the very reasons you championed for prior in appeasement to the parties, the conservatives want to conserve nothing but their own status quo and even when you solidify everyone's gainless, self serving positions, they hate you for not predicting they want more when there is nothing left to ask for. The game is not a political roleplay game, it is sadly a numbers game, of balancing numbers and bars with some nuanced, high brow writing around these decisions, but ultimately, much like every game in this genre that tries to be more than it is, a game of numbers, Prince Jerian is sadly about trying to balance dissonant things, acting our of character and out of your will and desire for a certain path, to make numbers go up and down. In the end, every artistic bit of writing is invalidated by invisible triggers and single digit variables. This gross over simplification is necessary to actually release a game that can function, but ultimately the long length of the game serves to try and hide the fact that it really is "number goes up and down", and all of its extremely cool and innovating mechanics that amplify the immersion of experience, are ultimately, still, at their core, the game mechanic equivalent of boiling water. It all comes back down to number goes up, number goes down. Number less than x means y, number greater than x equals y. In the end, the outcome is some variant of y, but the "flavour" of x changes more than the question itself. The plot and writing does not solve for x or why, it merely is a whiteboard for the equation, trying to throw you off from the fact everything really is just simple math with random factors thrown in. Its a shame because they are cooking with things that most games and gamers are not literate enough to comprehend. Actually balancing one's secular or spiritual life or understanding of religion with presenting it as Law and Legalism and Dogma vs Love, Passion, Progress, fundamentally shows a theological understanding of Christianity and its causes of many reform movements like Jan Hus and Martin Luther, far greater than most theologians could.

Что-ж, жизнь прожита, и пришла пора дать ответ на главный вопрос жизни " стоит ли играть?". Без сомнения. Возвращение в тот самый мир, который полюбился еще с предыдущей части игры. Новые выборы, новые последствия. А теперь к минусам, от которых душу рвет на части: ваш выбор на личные отношения с персонажами ни на что не влияют, все персонажи страдают амнезией. Ты можешь сколько угодно угождать персонажу, но в следующей главе он поступит не из личного отношения с тобой, а потому что так прописан сюжет - прискорбно. Если отыгрывать без открытых последствий выбора, то неочевидно к чему приведет твой выбор, а именно: решая проблемы духовенства влияние оказывается на незаинтересованные силы. Каков итог: игра стоящая, сыграть стоит. Прожить жизнь можно. Но как было сказано в трейлере игры: " какой бы ни была твоя жизнь, она точно будет наполнена страданиями"! И это так. Удачной игры.