The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

If you like spreadsheet induced panic attacks masked as deep existential dread, 10/10.

家里全是神人，外面全是暴民，带不动

[h1] The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Way More Interesting Than I Expected [/h1] Honestly, I did not think a game where you basically just read and occasionally click stuff could hook me this hard. Like, seriously, what kind of gameplay is that — flipping through a book? But somehow I ended up glued to it for several evenings straight, and I genuinely couldn't put it down. The story is just awesome. You live through a character's entire life, from childhood all the way to death, and every single choice you make actually changes something. And the decisions are often tough — there are no obvious "good" or "bad" options, just like in real life. Wanna be a noble knight? Get ready to suffer. Want power and riches? Well, prepare for the consequences on your conscience. Bottom line, the story keeps you on edge the whole time. I also gotta mention the visuals. The artwork is genuinely beautiful — dark and stylish, fitting the atmosphere perfectly. And there are animations too — not a ton, but just enough to bring things to life. Especially during big moments, when the image slightly comes alive, and you're just sitting there like, "Whoa, did that just happen?!" A few other little things: the music is really nice too, kind of fantasy-ish, plays in the background and never gets annoying. The world-building is well done — the gods, the estates, the whole Lot system, you can immediately tell this world has depth. Sometimes there's A LOT of text, sure, but honestly that's more of a plus than a minus. Anyway, if you're into games that tell a great story and actually let you shape it — this one's a no-brainer. I personally replayed it several times just to see what would've happened if I'd chosen differently. And it really paid off — the endings vary wildly. Highly recommend. Never thought I'd be sitting there clicking through text like I'm hypnotized, but here we are.

It's okay on the first play through, but after that it is too full of itself. You get 1 save at the start of the bulk of the game, if you want to see what is behind another option you need to spam click (there is no skip read panels or seen animations) for 10 minutes to get back half way through. A real save system would make this fun, I could try a path to see what it leads to while having it not be a waste if that specific path missed the stats by 1 for skill check I didn't memorize. Currently it is a chore to redo anything, since every passage is in 5 parts and has 2 unskippable transition animations inbetween. The Japanese understand this. Suzerain also understands the need for some granularity. It's pure arrogance to think that you game is so good that the player will want to click through the same text 5 times trying to explore something on the other side of the game.

first run was completely blind, hidden consequences and ironman means no rewind for immersive and realism purpose since decision made irl cannot be reverse, many choices cannot be pick which led to an undesirable ending. Went through several runs again and achieved at least a satisfactory ending but this time without hiding consequences, but still suffered several bad run as well, the butterfly effect is no joke. Script is extrememly good, definitely recommend if you can read :)

Splendid game, would recommend if you want to cool off. Reminds me of reading a book, but its interactive and you feel more like the character then a reader.

我要贵族死！！！！