[i] Truth: Disorder [/i] is a short (~30 min) visual novel with just one choice at the end of the game.
Backgrounds, sprites are fine, nothing exciting for me personally but pretty enough. I disliked music completely, had to set it as quiet as possible. But maybe it's just me, I rarely like soundtrack in games.
And I guess that's all what I can say about it in a more or less positive way. Now let me explain why I don't recommend it.
I've never seen text in such condition O_O It looks like the devs/translator/proofreader(?) had some serious problem with space on their keyboard. Practically each sentence has either typed together words or an extra space where it shouldn't be. It looks weird and soon becomes very annoying. I seriously can't understand such devil-may-care attitude. I've seen games with much worse mistakes and too many typos. But here, is it really so difficult to fix it?! Though of course space problem is not the only issue with the language, just the most eye-catching.
I started this VN because I accepted recently released Truth: Disorder III--Gemini. Maybe I'm the only one who starts with the previous parts but shouldn't you fix the first game before releasing the next parts. I do hope the next third game is of better quality. Maybe you think I nitpick and pay too much attention to the translation quality but it's a real ordeal to read through the text in such condition. It's stated on the store page that the game has English, Russian and Simplified Chinese languages but there's nothing in settings, just English. Maybe playing it in Russian would be more pleasant but if you release the product with the main English language, you should provide the necessary quality. In credits I actually saw devs thank their proofreader, well in this case I can only feel sorry for their unquality work. I'd recommend to use more beta testers. Though I don't even know how one person could miss so many obvious issues. The text is just unreadable.
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But you know, it's not even the worst thing about this novel. At first the story is too monotonous but ok it could actually be explained by the plot. But when the game unexpectedly ended, my jaw dropped. Wtf was that?! Any answers, please? Any explanation? After a drab beginning I was really interested to learn the truth but at the end of the game we just get [spoiler] “Yeah, I remember now!” Wtf do you remember, dude?! Btw I don't know their gender but I imagined MC as a boy. Why was he deceived? What disorder? What medicine? Who is that girl? Who is actually everyone in that game? [/spoiler] That's just some kind of mockery! I love open-ended games, books, films. When there's some space for imagination, but that's too far. Absolutely NOTHING is said. The idea could be interesting, the story became gripping at some point but that's the most terrible implementation I have ever seen. I always feel sorry when I have to write a negative review. But it's the first time when I'm not. I can even forgive the awful translation if you really hired a native proofreader, maybe it's not the dev's fault but wtf is wrong with the story or should I better say with complete absence of it?!
So, the game may be recommended for achievement hunters as it's not expensive. That's all. No stunning art or immersive story. Utter disappointment.
P.S. There're two more parts of [i] Truth: Disorder [/i] ahead. Maybe I'm just dumb and everything is going to be explained in next games. And if the English version will be fixed I'll be more than happy to apologize for harsh words and change my review and a curator recommendation. For now...
