VirtuaVerse

Los puzzles no son nada intuibles, de echo, he tenido que jugar mientras miraba una guía, porque no sabía en ningun momento que hacer. La historia es mediocre y los personajes hablan muchísimo de cosas poco interesantes o se enrrollan mas de lo que deberían.

VirtuaVerse es mucho más que una aventura gráfica: es un viaje directo a los 80 y 90, a esa época en la que el cyberpunk no era todavía un género de moda sino un sueño de futuro. Jugarlo se siente como abrir una ventana a esa visión futurista que prometía neón, hackers y realidades digitales, pero que nunca llegó tal cual. Tiene un aire muy marcado a Neuromancer, tanto al libro como al viejo juego de DOS. No tanto porque copie directamente, sino porque logra capturar ese sentimiento de imaginar el futuro desde el pasado. Eso genera una melancolía de un futuro que nunca fue, pero que fue intensamente imaginado. El pixel art aquí no es un simple recurso estético, sino parte del viaje emocional. Los gráficos respetan tanto el espíritu de la vieja escuela que por momentos uno siente la ilusión de estar frente a un juego comprado en los 90, desempacado de una caja de cartón con disquetes dentro. La banda sonora suma aun más nostalgia retrofuturista. Sí, algunos puzzles son difíciles, pero incluso eso permite recordar la incoherencia de muchos puzzles de aventuras graficas de los 90.

这个游戏比较线性，反转比较少，有些解密根本意想不到，交互比较差，剧情其实就是说让人脱离虚拟世界。但音乐很厉害。

Haven't played Point and clicks back in the day, so this one is my first. Considering others opinions, it seems like it sits nicely among the classics. It has a nice representation of a bleak dystopian future, a mix of Blade Runner and 90s retrowave hacking aesthetic. It also has many nice remarks about where our technologies, and moreso how governments and big corporations shape them are headed. Artstyle is awesome, sound is peak. While the story is set in a bleak future, the gameplay and its logic is very goofy. Sometimes too much, as if I wouldn't use a guide every now and then, I would throw my whole PC into trash. Story itself is nice if you take it at intended level of seriousness, but the nuance wasn't always handled well - you are sometimes too much of an uncaring ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ considering all the options that could've been realistically taken. This game is truly a love letter to point and clicks and retrofuture 90s master hacker vibes.

Попалась эта игра случайно, я повелся на все эти кибер-панк скриншоты и решил ее взять, по началу меня радовал весь этот сеттинг и саундтреки (несмотря на то, что они долбят по ушам все время игры), но эти загадки.... они вписываются в тот самый негативный стереотип о квестах, где ты не догадываешься до какого-то логичного решения, а кликаешь на все подряд, пытаясь понять чем руководствовался автор при их составлении, что невероятно сильно отвлекает от самой истории. Будь это книга или фильм, я бы с удовольствием все это читал и пересматривал до дыр, но только не квест. Каждый раз я бросал ее после пары затыканных загадок, заходил через год и понимал почему я ее дропнул

玩力竭了，第一次玩到如此缺乏游戏引导以及游戏设计的互动小说

To start, I liked this game a lot! The demo got me hooked and the art and soundtrack blew me away, it really captured that old school vibe in some parts. A lot of love was put into this project and you can feel that while playing. There's tons of detail, great soundtrack, beautiful animations, it runs smoooth. The puzzles were super fun and easy for the first half and I love the mechanic where you travel on your bike from place to place. (Was kind of disappointing only getting to use that for the first third of the game though.) All of this is what made me fall in love with this game. All that being said, I have a few critiques for sure. The second half of the game [spoiler] (after the slums when you're in Nuwaka) [/spoiler] definitely got kind of boring for me, it felt like the vibe changed completely and the puzzles got pretty hard. Had to use a walkthrough a few times. [spoiler] I also felt like the story took a turn I didn't expect, we went from some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hacker guy to saving the world so fast, it was a bit jarring. The ending was definitely lackluster and disappointing after spending 10 hours on it. I'd feel very different if it were maybe a 2-3 hr gameplay, but it took 2 days for me to finish it just to die lol. And while I usually appreciate the martyr concept, I don't feel like we care enough about our character for it to work. It would've been nice to escape and get a few cutscenes with Jay, or get to interact with the world more and our favorite characters after "saving the world." [/spoiler] Overall, I would definitely recommend the game to point and click enthusiasts, but the recommendation would be more for the gameplay and nostalgia than the story itself.