Tyrania - A Kinetic Visual Novel

Absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ beautiful experience. The story is a pretty amazing story and unironically should be made into like a short anime or movie, i really enjoyed it. What i also liked especially is also the world, i really like fictional worlds (Ex. Ace Combat) But this one was also amazing. Overall, short, but a 10/10 experience.

I honestly loved this game's lore <3

bello

Tyrania - A Kinetic Visual Novel 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?". 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 godawful high school anime club dropout fan-fiction is the product of someone watching way too much anime and trying to make their own but without any skill in either writing or animation. Think of it as a barely animated cartoon with the cringiest writing ever to insult literature and you're pretty close to this non-game "experience". 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. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent readers, and now there's basically nobody reading it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. While this E-book is "free", you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. 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.

Gold. Need anime adaption asap.

TLDR: It’s not great, but still worth it imo. I like the protagonist—or rather his “archetype.” Being this Lelouch Lamperouge × Light Yagami type makes it interesting to follow his story (even if it’s a bit messy and rushed). The music part, though, is pretty awful… Basically, for most of the game it’s just silence. You can use the “music stop” technique to punctuate tense moments, but having about half of the VN without music just makes it feel unfinished. My guess as to why the music was used “sparingly” is to avoid becoming repetitive, but if you cannot compose enough original songs, there are millions of beautiful (and free/public-domain) tracks to choose from that you could either play yourself or find a royalty-free performance of to use in your visual novel. Overall it’s fine, but it feels unfinished. Hopefully the developer(s) take the feedback into account in their next project. Edit: P.S. The Steam page says that it’s voiced, but it’s actually not. Idk why, but don’t expect any voice acting.

I wanted the easy achievements and didn't care for the story, so for my purposes this game was great.

This....this is a story, that while it was not made with the greatest of techniques, was created with the greatest of heart. A story worth telling, worth being told, and hopefully, one day to be brought into full sound and motion, with all the intricate details we place in our modern stories of today.