The Story Is You - Look Within

Alright, it's free. The artwork is beautiful. It's empty. Throughout the scenery are various motivational posters full of trite tautologies and vain platitudes. Some are even contradictory. I suppose that if you were looking for something to inspire you, maybe this would work, but so would reading a book. All you really have here is one structure and it takes maybe ten minutes to see everything. I am not saying it is bad, but I don't recommend it either.

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9686972/]Follow "[b]First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games[/b]" for more games like this![/url][/quote] You noclip around a castle (not a joke) looking at floating stock images (not a joke) containing pseudo-intellectual self-help quips. It takes about 3 minutes to see everything. I had to wait in-game an extra two minutes so I could write this review. There's not even an options screen - when you hit escape, the game just closes. You can safely avoid this one.

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Wow this game sucks, devs bought a castle asset pack, and slapped a bunch of ai generated motivational quotes in it. This couldn't have taken longer than half an hour to make. You didn't even cap the y camera rotation, so you can look fully around vertically. That's literally the bare minimum. Runs horribly too. "There are no puzzles, no enemies to kill, just you and this place." Yeah because that would have been too hard to implement.

I'm not going to post a negative review as to not harm the integrity of the project. It's a fair attempt at trying something insightful and provocative, as per experience, the attempt falls flat at the lack of subtlety. The game could be far more interesting if the player was a real entity inside the map. But so far you don't even explore the environment, you just spectate a stock asset in the unity engine with uncompressed PNGs with either ambiguous or weirdly specific text written on them. The message lacks metaphor, and therefore the story is not up to you; if no interpretation can be built from the environment, then it's just a museum of inspirational quotes. As a side note, the performance is horrendous, for a project that has little to offer, it's poorly optimized and shows the lack of effort put into it. My final veredict, contrary to the text above, is possitive. Since it works as inspiration for a more complex and detailed project that could help this example as a template for a environmental narrative. If there's a way of making a walking simulator in a meaningful way, this could be barebones what it would look like in it's bare essentials.

There's no way to start over if problems are encountered. :/ I wish it was 'playable', but in its current state, it's a game-breaking glitch away from wasting your time.

I'm a fast reader a trait i picked up from childhood. So this experience lasted around 10 minutes for me. This could have been a lot more subtle and the use of inserted images to get across messages felt like the developer half assed it. Could have had monks of wisdom with the old building that passes knowledge onto you as you go from monk to monk or maybe statue to statue. Unfortunately someone has covered what i was initially going to say in another review: "it's free. The artwork is beautiful. It's empty. Throughout the scenery are various motivational posters full of trite tautologies and vain platitudes. Some are even contradictory. I suppose that if you were looking for something to inspire you, maybe this would work, but so would reading a book." Its a shame because with a little bit of thought this could have been a really deep thinker of a game and instead it looks like a well done set of assets with some "live laugh love" "money is the root of all evil" preachy sounding imaged quotes ham-fisted into it. I wanted to get lost in this world and have this artwork hold up a mirror to me but it feels like they missed the mark of what this should have been.

It's a pretty weird game. If you can even call it a game. The whole gameplay is a flying camera. We fly around and look at buildings. Well, at least they don't ask for money for it :) I guess it's an attempt at something more. Although, in our century there are a lot of different genres, maybe someone will like it.

I wouldn't call it a game, it's more of a visual novel but without quests. In principle, it’s quite suitable for just thinking about something when you don’t know what to do, and besides, it’s free