Tron: Identity

I bought this on sale with Catalyst. I know it is a visual novel and meant to be short, but the game felt like an extended tutorial. Like the start to a larger game. As much as I want more Tron, I feel like I could have skipped this.

For every Tron fan a very good buy. Intriging story, cool graphics and music, story choices encourage to play this game again to see other outcomes. Not as action driven as my favorite Tron 2.0.

Além de ser uma ótima revisita ao mundo de Tron, é um visual novel de qualidade. Um pouco curto, mas muito bem trabalhado. Visualmente bastante impressionante, e aprofunda ainda mais o universo fascinante da Grade, e o que está por vir.

Tron Identity is a fun small studio take on a story within the Tron universe that sits outside what has been explored in the movies so far though does make some general references. The gameplay loop is fairly simple, following a puzzle model at set intervals which plays out similarly each time with minor variations to keep track of, but the main draw of this game is the narrative beats hit following through choices that you'll make to guide the story along. Visually it captures the vibe of the world its set in using a comic book/visual novel style and the music has a good ambience to it which lines up well with the areas you visit and the universe it's set in. It's a short game which doesn't overstay its welcome, took me 6 hours to do but the average is probably 3-4 hours; if you're a fan of Bithell Games' previous work and/or the Tron universe then I believe you'll find enjoyment playing through this hence my recommendation!

[h1] TRON: [/h1] [strike] *Gender [/strike] [h1] Identity [/h1] Do you like graphic novels? Do you like decent storytelling with a hint of that modern political musk that's soaked into every form of media since the mid 2010's? Oh yeah, and do you like [b] TRON!? [/b] Well buddy, do I have a "game" for you. TRON: Identity is arguably the first post TRON: Legacy game to grace our own Grids (and consoles I guess) since TRON: Run/r released back in 2016 and boy does it pick up where we last left off... sort of. These new Bithell (He/Him) games take place on an entirely new Arq Grid, which lore-wise is just a copy of the Grid from TRON: Legacy (without CLU) that was made after "The Miracle" and before "The Purge" took place canonically to ensure the safety and continuation of the newly discovered ISOs, which were basically just some PS1 game disc files that were spat up from the Sea of Simulation. While this does sort of detract from Quorra (Olivia Wilde's character from the movie) being the last of the ISOs, establishing this kind of backup fan-fiction server is a very neat way to create an entirely new Grid, free from the burden of the previous entries and open to a whole new world of possibilities. Like biodigital trees, man! In this new Arq Grid, you play as Query, a detective program, who's been summoned to [strike] TRON Tower [/strike] the Vertical Slice to investigate a mysterious explosion and the theft of all your banking information, or something just as valuable. Along your gripping investigation you'll meet characters like Grish, who doesn't seem like a bad program despite the game insisting on him being rude to you, Prinz, who is undoubtedly the villain of the story because he's red and believes in the users, and Cass, the first non-binary program (not even kidding)! There's a handful of other characters to meet along the way that flesh out the main story further and the decisions you make [b] DO [/b] matter, so there's theoretically reasons to play through it again if you really want to squeeze all the juice out of it or if you're just that hard up for TRON content. There's also a very poorly explained card-based game that occurs when you Defrag a programs disc, but you don't really need to know how to play to get through it, thankfully. Other than that, there's a handful of little dots to click on in the environment to give you more lore to read and a handful of Easter eggs, referencing back to TRON, TRON: Legacy, and even TRON: Catalyst, which is the sequel that will be out by now by the time you've gotten this far into the review. The real question though is it any good? Well, I would encourage you to play it once and just push past the modern political nonsense, because it seems like it's snuck its way into everything and weeding it out at this point is impossible, but also because this is really the only type of game that it's acceptable to be in. The entire game is completely driven by its story and the political landscape on the Arq Grid (however much Bithell wants it to mirror the real world or not) influences and affects the characters. If you can't explore this garbage in fiction, then where can you explore it? Certainly not the real world, we'd all know Cass is just a dude and we'd all just gaslight him hoping he won't awkwardly cry in front of us again. The story itself isn't all that political really, so it's just an annoying obstacle that you shouldn't let ruin what is otherwise a fun jumping off point for some new and much needed TRON content. So even though you won't always get the dialog options you want (or maybe your character will just choose for you sometimes), and you won't really understand the weird Defrag card game by the time you roll credits, I can still recommend this game to woke leftist ideologs and die-hard TRON fans alike, but ONLY if it goes on sale and you're willing to spend the 2 hours it takes to beat it. Otherwise, I would recommend steering clear of this and supporting some much worthier graphic novels out there if you’re into that kind of thing. I swear, if Exo gets upset at just one microaggression, I'm coming for you next TRON: Catalyst, and it's not going to be pretty. End of line.

一部好像经费不高的Tron IP衍生游戏，没有演出，没有配音，配乐也不尽人意，仅仅五个场景，六个角色，大概短短一个半小时的流程，讲了一个阴谋论的故事，与其说像一部电影，不如说只是美剧的试播集，在游戏的结尾，我们发现了真相，而这仅仅只是这个世界观的一个开始，或许接下来的《创：催化剂》能够为我们拓展这个故事的后续。 我本人首先并不是一个视觉小时类游戏的受众，我个人很看重演出效果和美术风格，而本作极其简单的美术，没有很好的实现Tron那炫酷的霓虹灯线条感；本作也是一部非常粉丝向的作品，在与角色的交流中，大量的关于Tron设定以及电子计算机相关的术语直接抛出来，而不会对这些东西做出解释，游戏中的“典籍库”也只会收录关于游戏中特定场景与个别物品的解释，只有寥寥几篇短文。 虽然本作是归根结底是一部侦探小说，结尾也有反转，但故事深度不够，悬疑感不够，解谜无聊，我个人并不认为这是一部优秀的视觉小说类游戏，还有相当多需要充实加量的地方。[spoiler] 或许迪士尼真的那么抠门？咱也不好说。 [/spoiler]

个人游玩印象：震撼神作 超级喜欢 [b][u]玩得开心[/u][/b] 略有失望 强忍玩完 后悔购买 全成就追求：通关即拿 [b][u]简易补齐[/u][/b] 硬核冲刺 以后再说 枯燥堆时 手残放弃 看在三三折购入并且是Tron主题的份上勉强给个好评，但问题想必大家都清楚了。 其实感觉这游戏是有潜力做成更大体量的，目前的剧情分支在我看来就像一个究极微缩版底特律变人，和各种国产互动影游相比的好处就是不管怎么选都会通往终局，不会半路BE，只会影响一些人的生死。甚至这游戏和底特律一样都有全员存活成就，但听说全员存活线的路线流程会让主角孤身一人没有任何盟友，属实是不能既要又要了hhh 纸牌小游戏因为刚玩过同一家公司的前作《The Solitaire Conspiracy》，玩的时候还是有点熟悉感的（特别是快把牌消完时的音乐转换），每次小游戏都能完成额外目标（虽然只是解锁了无尽模式里的各种视觉效果）。但能感觉到会有很多人不喜欢小游戏的玩法，消除同色或同数字很UNO，但隔两个消感觉就不是什么常规玩法了，需要玩家们花更多时间学习这一系统。这点上我觉得就不如Zactronic硬核解谜游戏的纸牌小游戏，同样是和主线无关的内容，Zactronic纸牌甚至能单独出个合集。。。当然也是基于大家对扑克牌足够熟悉，其实我觉得搞个The Solitaire Conspiracy里类似形式的纸牌小游戏也不错啊。 然后就该吐槽剧情了。[spoiler]很多评测已经指出，主角除了修光盘外没看出什么侦探的地方，而且剧情基本是由修完光盘解锁的记忆来推动的，主角除了做点选择影响一点别人的生死之外（提名上楼照顾卡斯然后死于非命的艾达姐姐）基本没啥存在感。而且由于我是先玩的Catalyst再回来玩的本作，其实已经发现很多组织和人名都在两款游戏中出现了，但有意思的就是翻译竟！然！不！一！致！比如主角在本作叫查询，Catalyst里叫窥睿，要不是我看了眼英文名Query是真想不到这俩译名的联系，而且竟然也想不到窥睿在Catalyst里都做了啥，这就说明这俩游戏的剧情没给我留下什么深刻印象XD[/spoiler] 3.5小时全成就，游戏的资料库可以跨周目继承，所以多走几条路线就能全收集。二周目往后可以快速按P过对话，不选带放大镜的选项，谜题全跳过，可能十几分钟就能过完。成就方面[spoiler]一周目肯定要自己来，然后二周目建议打一个全活流程，也就是放代理进+不放走塞拉（不然艾达会死）+任由代理绑架普林茨+任由格里什带走卡斯，最后再补自己漏下的。简单说就是，不放代理进的话代理死，放走塞拉的话艾达死，干涉代理绑架普林茨的话普林茨死，卡斯不被带走的话格里什死，卡斯可以被关押/被主角抛弃/和主角一起走，听说应该还有个卡斯死的线，不知道是格里什死后把卡斯弄死还是和普林茨不被绑架有关——其实想写个全路线攻略的，但因为全成就其实不需要全路线（比如我就不知道代理死后是啥样，因为成就拿到后就直接开新游戏了）再加上这游戏似乎是真的冷门所以就算了吧hhh[/spoiler]

This is the first visual novel I played and I love the Tron universe so I had a pleasant experience with this one which kept me on my toes with the story and choices I made. It's not super cinematic though, and I didn't like the disk defragmentation minigame, it just started to get frustrating eventually, the spawners were the worst. Overall, decent experience if you like anything to do with Tron,

Unfortunately, as a Tron fan, I cannot recommend this game. For the price, there are plenty of better games you could get, with much more replay value. This is a visual novel style game, and yet, I had some weird lag problems. I have a decent PC, and haven't had issues with other games, so this must be related to the game itself. As a fan of games with a strong narrative focus, I felt very frustrated with how the game handled its story. The core of the story is fine, I suppose, but because of the several branching choices, there were a few times toward the end of the game where characters knew information that I did not tell them, and there was no way they could have known. This really frustrated me, as it lessened the impact of my choices. If you're also a huge fan of Tron: Legacy or Tron: Uprising, you will be disappointed to find out that this story does not take place in the same Grid as those stories. I understand why the creative team made this decision, but it makes me care less about the world of the story, especially because the player gets to see so little of it. I don't really understand who this game is for, and how it has such a high score. It does not succeed as a detective game, as a naritive game, or as a Tron game. I'd rate this game 2/5.

Cute little graphical novell in the TRON Universe with a few and very easy Disc Puzzles. Took me around 2,5 hours for the main run incl. reading texts and being inside the story. Finishing the other achievements took around 20 minutes in a few turbo pushes. Story is quite okay. Nothing extraordinary, but not bad either. The scenes are nice designed inside the tron universe, but could have more depth into it, like unblurred background city. *edit - And the soundtrack could be a bit more bassheavy, like in Tron Legacy by Daft Punk. The soundtrack was quite weak* In my opinion not worth the 15 bucks, but if you grab it in a sale for 5-6 bucks it's a good catch.