VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

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At this point a cult classic in the visual novel. Well enjoyable story with interesting characters even for those who aren’t that fond of the cyberpunk setting. [h3] Gameplay [/h3] Bone of the gameplay is a standard visual novel - you advance text, nothing to it, nor you have the option to make any choices (at least not with words). Attached to the basic VN template is the bartending part. You mix drinks out of 5 ingredients based on customers requests - sometimes they will state directly what they want, sometimes you will need to read drink descriptions that fit and sometimes they will require you to dig out info from previous information to serve the right drink. However unfortunately/fortunately usually it’s not that hard to figure out what they want. Not that it’s impossible to fail, but even without optimizing for serving the most expensive drinks and like two missed perfect serves I managed to get the good ending and buy all things for Jill she wanted. In terms of gameplay the game is therefore rather easy. [h3] Story [/h3] You are a bartender and you will not deviate much during the story from that role, or basically at all. You are there to listen to other people's stories and comment on them. And I must say the customers are well written and I’ve enjoyed their individual, sometimes intertwining, plots. But there isn’t much to be said without going into spoilers. Just beware the game deals with somewhat sensitive topics, like mentions of SA, domestic violence. Sometimes it’s handled well, sometimes it isn’t. Also there’s a character of Dorothy (a robot sex-worker with a body of a child), which is uncomfortable to say the least. [h3] Conclusion [/h3] A laid back game with a lot of reading that tells an interesting story and was influential enough to spawn many copy cats (Although the og creator has since moved to other projects with a true sequel to VA-11 Hall-A in limbo, not that that’s bad).

非常好游戏，使我酒杯旋转

很久之前玩过，印象是敢于表达思考过的东西并且写的很深，最喜欢boss。出于和jill做调酒师类似的理由，我重温，比之前认真地读了文本，做全成就。现在的我玩反而和之前感觉有不同，这个游戏太成人了，充满了混乱，爱，欲望关系和遗憾叙事，并且不管发生什么还能继续往前走。这游戏把形形色色的人塑造的很立体，不是虚构作品中让你爱上的魅力角色，是有反转和层次，让你渐进式了解他们的立场，想法和内心，共通心理接近现实，一些人或许能从中共鸣。 只是面对这些人我就像在蟹堡王打工的章鱼哥，你知道吗……

One of the best Interactive gameplay visual novel out there. Great pixel art, music, story +It's Cyberpunk genre! 100/10 for me.