A Trip to Yugoslavia: Director's Cut

2/10 Based on the age of all the actors and the overall quality of the game, I'm assuming this was some sort of student project, or at the very least was made by high school students. That adds a layer of charm to it, though the game overall is very poorly constructed. Things are poorly conveyed, the quick-time events are horribly implemented and, while I understand it is inherently hard to make an FMV game, this feels like a poor execution of it. Still, very charming, and shows some potential for better projects in the future. It is my understanding that this game is about a decade old, so I'd be curious to play some of their newer stuff.

I have mixed feelings about this. QTEs are just hard to comprehend. The save system forces you to accept the failure, so you have to start over and over again. The game runtime for a first playthrough is around 30 min, but no flowchart to start where you want to, so you too see everything, you have to play it over and over again. But the game is at least not that long, and it also has the charm of a student movie. [quote]Follow us for more [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45113328-Awesome-Adventure-Friends/] Awesome Adventures![/url] [/quote]

this games controls are so clanky bruh, 0/10 would not recommend

I just want to start the review off by saying. Yes I do understand this was a game designed to be a fun game the creator could make with his friends. Yes I understand the game is supposed to have absurdly funny choices to make sometimes. This game was not fun to play at all for me. The language setting at the very start of the game did nothing and the menus were still in a language I couldn't even understand even after a full restart. The QTE's are the worst I've ever seen for a FMV, The choices themselves which I will give credit did feel like they had an impact were just so confusing especially the way it was all laid out. Also while I love the idea of the game being a VHS you can pause, skip forward, and replay I feel like the design was perfect but the way it feels to use is awful. I will give this game even more credit though. Congrats on getting through the Steam Greenlight because I know that must have been really really hard.

8/10

As an amateur FMV maker, I wanted to try out this game to get a hold of how amateur branching narraitve games/movies look like on Steam. Here is my throughout and personal opinion that is to be taken subjectively to my own experience: POSITIVES: + The game respects its narrative direction consistently and doesn't venture randomly in its design. + The choices do seem to impact the story as there seems to be a lot more scenes than I thought which I missed due to it not being a linear game with illusory choices. + The costumes and accessories are very great, the creator invested confidently in them to make us feel immersed in the setting despite the limited budget capacities an indie amateur studio typically has. + There are a few different gameplay mechanics that make it sometimes feel more like a game than just a choice-based music, which is good relatively to the needs of the player. + The VFX to match the atmosphere of a VHDL disk are good. NEGATIVES: - The QTEs are not very intuitive when beginning, the user experience made me take some time before finding out what they made and what key on my keyboard to press in order to succeed it. - There seems to be no fullscreen mode, which made my game kind of overlap over my monitor, hiding parts of it and leaving leaks of my desktop, hindering a bit the immersion and user experience. - The choices often seem very one-sided, there's hardly a logical reason to make one over the other. Other times, they just feel a bit pointless, and seem to only drive the narrative into branches for the sick of it, without actually feeling that impactful or rewarding upon making them. - The main menu is hard to access, or at least, I personally couldn't find the settings to remove the VHDL visual effect that over time kind of felt a bit painful to my visibility despite the immersion it brings. - There's not a lot of dialogues, and when there are, the audio quality is relatively poor, making it hard to understand what they are saying, moreover, often what the characters have to say doesn't bring much to the story. However, when the soldiers speak in their native language, this is appreciated, as I can't understand it and it gives off eastern european movie vibes. - Acting is weak, hindering the immersion, especially with an FMV oriented around combat and physical confrontation, but you can't really blame them as it was a low-budget project with people that aren't true paid actors, but rather likely friends and volunteers. PERSONAL TAKES: (take those with a grain of salt) * I'm not a fan of "rinse and repeat" branching narratives, where one choice can lead to an early death, and rewinding is required in order to progress the story, but I get that this is just the directive the creator wanted to lead into, and it's just a subgenre of FMVs that may not please everyone, while others may enjoy. * I wish the UI for choices was different, as having to hover over the boxes to see anything at all about the choices was a bit annoying at first, but you get used to it, and it matches the atmosphere too. Moreover, I wish sometimes there were more than just 2 choices. CONCLUSION: This is a good project made by amateur/student/friends, and while I sounded harsh, I tried to give constructive insight as a player for their own good, although this one has released almost a decade ago and the director has probably greatly improved since. Good job!

i just didn't get it (