The Orphaned Soul

A short visual novel about a young woman who was abandoned as an infant and adopted by a couple who raised her like their real daughter. When she reached her 21 birthday, she decided to set off for a journey to find her real parents. This journey depends heavily on your choices and of course, there will be huge consequences that might also cost your life. The writing style is good, as well as the voice over which is only in the intro of the game, the voice actress did a good job. There is a health system that can be affected by your choices, it can be raised or lowers depends on what you choose. Each scene and encounter may have two or more choices, you can take the dangerous route and your health be affected or can, of course, take the safe route which sometimes can be longer. You have the option to save your game before making any choices which are pretty handy and allows you to explore the game even further. Music is beautiful and fitting each scene and area, the beautiful backgrounds are good as well. The only thing I didn't like is the characters design. I also wished the game support steam overlay to take screenshots, but sadly I couldn't take any screenshot during my gameplay. Pros: +Beautiful Backgrounds. +Good story with multiple paths. +Beautiful soundtracks. +Verywell-done voice over in the intro. +Multiple save slots. +Replay value. +Choices and consequences. Cons: -No steam achievements. -No steam overlay, which doesn't give you the option to screenshot. I'm not sure if the game has multiple endings, but it sure has many paths to take. I do recommend this game to people who enjoy reading. If you don't rush through it or skip the dialogue you'll get an hour of gameplay or even more. [quote]𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑐𝘩𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒 [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/32399565/]𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑎'𝑠 𝐶𝘩𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒[/url][/quote]

This is the first visual novel created by the devs. The visuals are great, the characters interesting, and the plot is good. Choices will affect what happens, perhaps even the difference between living and dying. Try it.

La protagonista de esta historia es una joven que fue abandonada al nacer en un bosque, y que ha vivido con sus padres adoptivos en un pequeño pueblo toda su vida. Pero siempre ha soñado con encontrar a sus verdaderos padres y en cuanto cumple 21 años se despide de su familia y se marcha de aventura sin ningún plan concreto de cómo encontrarlos. La casa esta rodeada de un denso bosque, cerca del cual está el "terreno maldito" que debe atravesar (ya es raro que no haya caminos transitados) y aquí debe hacer su primera elección: ¿dirigirse al este o al oeste? De su elección dependerá su fortuna, puede que el sendero esté libre o se encuentre un enjambre de abejas que le quiten algo de vida de los 20 puntos con los que comienza la partida. Y así prosigue su aventura, ¿se esconde al oir sonidos amenazantes o se encara a quien los produce? ¿Bebe agua de un lago o la considera venenosa? ¿ayuda a un hombre herido o lo deja abandonado a su suerte? Y así vemos que el juego no es en absoluto una novela visual como prometen los desarrolladores si no un un título de "elige tu propia aventura". Y aunque está bien escrito, el hecho de que decidan presentarnos las elecciones una tras otra con tan solo unas pocas frases para presentarnos el problema hace que flojee, y mucho, la historia. La realidad es que hay pocas elecciones que hacer y en muchos casos la penalización es que nos quitan unos pocos puntos de vida mientras que en otros solo afecta a qué zona vemos primero y aún en otros... no afecta en nada. Y además no hay mucho que ver, el camino hacia la gran ciudad es totalmente lineal, y una vez dentro hay únicamente tres o cuatro lugares que podemos visitar. Por tanto la duración del juego es mínima: puedes terminar una partida en 15 minutos o menos, y si no te matan llegarás a ver el final (que además, parece ser el único que existe) Como puedes grabar donde quieras, puedes probar todas las opciones fácilmente, haciendo aún más rápidas las siguientes partidas. Y como no hay logros ni ninguna indicación de todos los caminos que existen no tienes la duda de si te falta algo por ver. Si veis el trailer que dura dos minutos, eso es la primera parte de la partida, lo que da una buena idea de lo corto que es el juego. Creo que he probado todas las elecciones posibles y en ningún caso he visto nada que merezca la pena comentar que se salga de la historia principal. Además solo he tardado media hora en total, lo que me parece una duración muy escasa para un título basado en leer la historia y probar diferentes alternativas. Al menos los gráficos están muy bien hechos con cada una de las zonas distintas por las que pasamos representadas por un fondo pintado con acuarela. El sonido está pensado más para ambientar pero no se hace pesado y es agradable de escuchar, aunque no haya ningún tema memorable. Dicen que el juego está narrado por actores profesionales, pero la realidad es que solo es la introducción, que dura un minuto. No puedo recomendar este juego, ni por su duración ni por su historia ni por la calidad de su escritura. Parece más bien un juego que debería haber sido gratuito como carta de presentación de los desarrolladores y no un juego de pago que dura 10 minutos.

Игра представляет собой небольшое приключение, где все зависит от вашего выбора - по сути это визуалка, в которой происходящее меняется от сделанных вами выборов, а выбор придется делать на каждом экране. Оно вроде бы и неплохо, но назвать историю интересной я не могу, а сама игра полностью проходится минут за 15-20. Это больше похоже на некую "пробу пера" или демо-версию, поэтому рекомендовать эту игру довольно сложно, тем более за полную цену. Поставлю палец вверх, но интересно оно вам или нет - решайте сами.

Very short but it is also very well made. The art is lovely and the music for each scene is excellent. It can literally take about 10 minutes to complete successfully, though I managed to complete it only on a third attempt.

The Orphaned Soul 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?". To answer that question: 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 E-book features Choose-Your-Own-Adventure elements where you make some decisions that don't do anything to change the fact this is just an E-Book. Nobody finished reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book and said "Boy, what a great game I just played!". Because E-books aren't games. And neither is this. The decision tree in the game all leads to the same place, but there's a token "hitpoints" counter that goes down if you make the wrong choices. This doesn't affect the flow of the game, just whether you can get to the end or not. Like a Fighting Fantasy book, but dumbed down and without the fighting. And with worse writing. 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. You can get better quality books and comics for free online or from public libraries, or from bookstores for a fraction of the price of this "game". 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. From a technical perspective, this E-book doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this E-book will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The poor quality of this E-book is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak reader number was only 2 readers. That's right, only 2. This is a pitiful enough number, and now, the only reader activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam, the overwhelming lack of interest in the E-book is remarkable, but also to be expected. This complete and utter rejection of the E-book from gamers should be a keen information point for anyone considering buying shovelware like this. Gamers just didn't take this seriously, and for good reason. It's not a game. The Orphaned Soul has the far too high price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.

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Surprisingly decent little visual novel. Artwork, music, and writing are all quite good. The only problem is that it is very short (10-15 minutes per play through) and linear -- your choices really only affect how many health points you gain or lose at each encounter, and the goal is simply to get to the end without your health dropping to zero. I played it through a few times just to visit all of the locations and see all of the artwork. If you can get it on sale for around a dollar it might be worth it.

https://youtu.be/axreS8vYF_8 Branching narrative with only leaf nodes lacks the expected depth for a visual novel and reduces this to simple A|B testing with the save/load system.