Monorail Stories

Visivamente molto carino e l'idea di fondo mi è piaciuta ma a parte camminare e premere un singolo tasto c'è ben poco da fare, gli enigmi sono quasi totalmente assenti, non esiste un salvataggio che non riguardi l'intera giornata e per quanto questo porti una persona a rigiocarlo per vedere l'esito delle varie scelte di certo non per tutti è invitante ricominciare da capo. Le tematiche e le situazioni le ho trovate forzate e sinceramente non trovo un motivo per provare altre scelte o rigiocarlo. Peccato, mi aspettavo molto di più da questo gioco.

I'll give it a like, because feel you really have to dislike a game to give it a thumbs down, but realistically, if I were rating on a five star scale, it would be more like three stars out of five. I really liked the voice acting; in particular, I definitely felt the emotions of the characters, and in many voice-acted games, the affect is flat. With one caveat; who ever did the English localization had British dialect in mind, while the voice actors have American accents. This leads to occasional infelicities; Americans do not say "Oi!," very much a British locution. The game very much wants you to play through multiple times, to lead to different endings, and that's fine, so far as it goes; but there is no virtual-novel-like skip feature, so you wind up banging keys to get through to the next bit when you've seen it before. And the UX is that the top dialog choice is always default, so you the the risk of inadvertently choosing an option you didn't actually want as you slap rapidly through dialog. There is no player-save, only "continue," so that can be a problem. In addition, some of the endings happen rather quickly, resulting in an unsatisfying narrative, and since there is no player-save, this requires a complete restart. The graphics are perfectly okay for what they are; retro pixel art in a side-scrolling game, but that's a design choice, and not criticizing on that score. My hours on record involve four complete play-throughs; so obviously, I found something to like to explore that far. But you'll note that's still under four hours; the headline price for the game is silly given what it provides. On the other hand, I bought on sale for <$6, and do feel I recieved value for that money. So: buy on sale maybe, there are good things about this game, but there are aspects I would describe as pretty amateurish.

I think the title screen may actually be the best part of the game. It paints a picture of a charming game about two cities connected by a monorail, but the mechanics and writing fail to deliver. You just walk up and down the same train with largely the same people and same points of interaction, with nothing really interesting happening at any point. Conversations are forgettable at best and the voice acting sometimes makes the already janky dialogue even worse. I like the premise, I like the visual style and I like to support games like this, so I'd love to be able to recommend this, but since even my first playthrough is feeling like a chore, I just can't.

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i dont know if the heat this game has gotten is deserved. it is a point n click adventure, and like any of those it has its own world and twists. there's multiple endings and ways to handle things. i thought finishing sylvie and ahmal would unlock more playable characters, was a little strange to have character selection when there is never more than one option.

I backed this game on Kickstarter and I have to say I am really disappointed with the final product. The inputs lock-up and prevent you from progressing. There wasn't much thought put into this game.

напишу на русском отзыв, несмотря на то, что русского языка в игре нет. так как с точки зрения практики языка на уровне a2-b2 — идеально. сама по себе история приятная, очень понравилась работа с персонажами, хотя моя концовка скорее разочаровала.