Gerda: A Flame in Winter

This is a really cool narrative game, with good story, and interesting setting. I would really like to give this a positive review, as I liked most of it. Unfortunately, it has some cons that soured my taste with it: - Twice I ran into an bug in which, after an autosave, the logs/dialogue/narration claimed I'd made a choice I had not done in the previous scene. In one of these cases it only changed a minor dialogue option later in the story from easy to challenging, and in the other case it resulted with a character being dead in the following scenes. Since you don't have manual saves, only an autosave and one save slot, this means that you sometimes have to live with the results of the bugs, not with the concequences of your choices. - The Train station scene felt more like a puzzle with imperfect information, than a culmination of my previous choices. Not sure if it is or not. It could also be that the game gives you a lot of things to do in this scene, but passing those checks will still automatically lead to success or failure depending your choices, which isn't great either. - There is an element of rng when it comes to persuasion checks. It is annoying when you keep failing easy persuasion checks after considering and planning the choices that led to them. I think the rng should have been there as an option to save you, if you made mistakes earlier in the story or scene, not as a last, although easier hurdle to overcome if you made the right ones. - The game should show you the dice rolls or at least their numerical results. A very minor thing that would have made the rng mechanic visually more pleasing. - The game needs a run toggle. The bugs, especially after running into them twice, are what mainly leads me to give this a negative review. If I had not gotten them in my first and likely only playthrough, I would have been able to recommend this game without reservations. Still, I'm interested to see what this studio does in the future.

O jogo te coloca em uma situação tão complicada, algumas escolhas são tão fáceis de fazer e outras tão difíceis, foi uma época terrível né, desse nosso mundinho, mas enfim, recomendo. É um pouco lento e demorei pra terminar por isso, mas não deixou de ser um jogo histórico bom.

A hard game to review I liked this one uiet alot. The game has alot of choices, witch again seems to have a lot of variables. Alot of hard choices that seems to influence other choices down the line. They are hard and difficult to make. And you almost feel like no matter waht you make there are just alot of bad choices. But, again is a game set during ww2 so is bleak. So is the story, so is the atmosphere, so is the dialogue. The dialogue is good. The characters is fine too. And you just have to live with some bad choices. The setting is good. I like that is ww2 game without any of the normal combat. That no matter what you do some bad things will happen There some ok twist too here. The music is good All in all i liked the gameplay, that you can read about stuff during that period. That you can build up relatinship with different people and factions. That you get clues. A great game.

Both Liva's and Gerda's stories are captivating with a banch of alternatives. If I had to pick one, I'd choose the Gerda's story because it's longer and fuller. It's nice touch that, when you finish the games, you can go back in crucial points and choose an altervative.

This is a beautiful, short game with a simple but powerful story. The gameplay is similarly simple, but is an improvement on the standard point-and-click adventure or pure choose-your-adventure format. I also enjoyed the art style and the voice acting. I highly recommend it, especially if you can get it on sale.

全流程大概九个小时左右，总体可以给个7分吧。我也是最近在社区得知这游戏竟然和奇异人生（我最爱的互动叙事电影之一）是一个发行商，看来眼光很不错，油画晕染的风格非常美，和漫漫长夜一样唯美，人物在这样的体量下也都立住了，安德斯是我最喜欢的角色，本体里面只出现了几幕，DLC的内容把这个角色弧光彻底补足了，他不再是一时冲动入狱的抵抗军，真实的安德斯有理想有信念，心里有丹麦人民，更时时刻刻都记得心爱的格尔达，在不得已的流血冲突中有仁慈，在需要自己牺牲的任务也从不畏缩，清澈而坚韧。 再说些我不喜欢的地方，所有的互动影游里面有很多选项分支，没有任何提示就突然影响关键结局的我都很难给满分，因为很难体验到制作组的全部内容，像这种小众游戏又难以找到攻略，游戏里的关键节点也没有回溯功能，如果想要修正结果只能一点点的从一开始推图，不管是为了做成就还是体验全部剧情都是恶心玩家的，尤其是小制作组的游戏又想要多填充内容，又没有足够的技术力和前期关卡设计来让玩家相对简单的体验到所有选项，大可不必搞得好像可能性很多一样，就线性的把故事讲好就是一个成功的游戏，独立游戏就该致力于让玩家尽快吃干抹净，吃的酣畅淋漓

对话的逻辑太奇怪了玩不下去了 1.不让人帮我领包就掉信任点数，为啥 2.一开始我是想走支持丹麦路线，但是好几个我认为是支持丹麦的对话都变成了支持德。比如劝架丹麦小孩说他德国朋友很自大的定规则是因为他只会复制自己看到的，这不是嘲讽吗？？结果直接丹麦支持-1，以及遇到德国npc在两个问候选项中选了相对而言不友好的那个，结果德国支持+1。诸如此类。 3.叠加一下不太了解历史，但是就我玩到的部分，观感是丹麦人的生活水平远低于德国，女主住的屋子还会被太保嘲笑破烂，结果女主还有同情南方德国人物资配给比她们这儿少的选项。 总之主题还行但是始终玩起来有股别扭的感觉。。