Bionic Heart

This game is one of Winter Wolves's earlier products. As such, it is a much rougher visual novel. However, the basics of their future success are there. The premise here is dark. The world has succumbed to climate change... in a way unexpected by early 21st Century scientists. It now rains all the time... everywhere... which has got to make the cities a bit waterlogged... Especially a place like London, since if the polar caps have melted most of the modern city would be underwater... You, Luke, have suddenly had a strange android named Tanya enter your life... quite dangerously (we'll skip the one achievement where you don't meet her). Now, you have to figure out what to do with her... your relationship with Helen... and with your employer who happens to be doing... something beyond the pale. There are 24 endings, so take your time and find them all. If you can.

So I haven't played this game in at least a year and a half, but this shouldn't take long. The art is bad, the writing is terrible, and the story is just so much nothing. For a game that is literally nothing but art, writing, and story, this is deeply unfortunate. Go elsewhere for your fantasies of robot sex.

[h2]Bionic Hearts is a mediocre at best visual novel.[/h2] Art is really nothing to rave about. The voice acting is horrendous. The music is boring. I ended up completing it only for the achievements. I lost part of my soul in the process. Looking forward to more soul loss with Bionic Hearts 2. [h2]4/10[/h2] [h3][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45905648-Gork%2527s-Game-Grind/]Check out my curated list of games[/url][/h3]

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*I won this game from an indiegala giveaway* I played through all of the endings to complete the achievements... Positives: + Nice art-style + Easy achievements, though the more I completed the sadder/ more disgusted I felt Negatives: - Very one note characters, none were likable, no character development (every character was annoying) - Sexual comments on some of the characters' bodies were immature and out of place - Most of the romance/jealousy/ love pairs/ love groupings didn't make sense to me - When Luke enters the room, every other character becomes worse. One example: The professor in charge of making the robotic people "has trouble" connecting Jane's brain/whatever to the rest of her so Luke steps in and "performs the procedure perfectly." The professor has no such problem in the other 20+ runs of the game. I guess it happens this way to make Luke seem cooler and add another ending or something - Needed more world building. I had a lot of questions about the world that the characters lived in and didn't know why the situation wasn't on any of the characters' mind... If it rained all the time, why aren't people getting sick (leptospirosis)? Why aren't there landslides? If there is no sunlight for decades, how would people be able to breathe without plants creating oxygen? The game gave this grave situation but there was no follow-through on how it affected the characters other than the food's not great, pets are hard to come by, travel is a little inconvenient, etc Bionic Heart gets a muddy 2/10

Очень специфический на первый взгляд игра. При ее освоении вы для себя отметите: [i]1. Рисовка не азиатская, а по большей части на западный манер 2. Полная озвучка почти всех персонажей на английском 3. Кроме новеллки, игра сочетает в себе головоломочку и вариации в выбором ответа 4. Руссификатор ( имеется в Руководствах )[/i] Единственный момент, который заставит попотеть - выбивание ачивок. Я сначала скачал руссификатор, и потом в нее играл. Но дело в том, что все выборы и пояснения в гайдах написаны на Инглише - и чтобы запустился определенный диалог или выбор, надо выбрать соответствующий рут в развилке. Это немного муторно, из за этого я попотел с выбиванием хорошей концовки для основных персонажей, играя на Руссиче [b]В общих чертах: Продукт годный - High tech, Андроиды, интриги и все такое - очень неплохо[/b] [h1]Итогом: 10 Механических сердец из 10[/h1]

Pleasant Visual Novel with options to move to different places and a bit of interaction with the environment.

Tags: Adventure - VN - Visual Novel Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Short and simple VN about robot vs human lover. Confused setting. Fully voice acted in house but a tad amateur. It is not really clear how robots are made, which is one of the central arcs of the short story and one of the main storyline of one of the romance-ables. Because of the psychological thriller plot hook early on, chances are you will want to romance the robot just to solve the mystery behind her presence and her escape. Which distracts from the human vs robot initial concept. You do not get to actually choose between the girls as only one seems to be available at a time on most segments. Instead you have the police station which acts as a trigger, and allows to presumably switch storyline over to the human partner by antagonizing the robot. In the end you find out that there is some weird criminal rehabilitation program that turns people robots, or that criminals turn themselves robotic to avoid sentencing? It is a tad unclear. I think they did a decent job making the robot sometimes unsettling, and since she is a prototype then it leaves the door open to her not acting in the way you would expect her to, and with a dash of suspension of disbelief that aspect of the writing felt fairly credible. On a positive note they also added evolving storyline at some branching points in the story where radically unique events can happen in each. So if you do get the hook for the setting, there is some reason to revisit the title to scratch out more content and lore out of it. Conclusion: Because of the somewhat generic setting, the botched dillemma between the two partners, the confusing robot lore and the limited interactivity it is hard to justify holding on to this game in permanent library. Might be worth spending an hour or two going through it once before discarding, but it is ultimately not impactful enough to really remain memorable so why bother.