Shardlight

REALLY GOOD GAME Y'ALL

Ein sehr nettes Adventure Game, lohnt sich für Fans des Genres - und Freunde von Post-Apokalyptischen Geschichten.

Wonderful game! Not too hard, logical puzzles, great mood, sad music, beautiful pixel art and professional voice acting. Insane quality for your money - support!

Ok I finished all the Wadget Eye games so I can compare (Old skies being the latest banger), this one was the only one missing, and give a balanced advice. Ok, to me it is not clearly the best of this studio. I activated the in game commentaries and this is great to know what's in the mind of the designers and developers even musician and what they wanted to achieve while you play, you really feel the "behind the scenes" stuff that you never notice as a player. Problem is that, indeed, when you play the game you do not really feel they really succeeded doing what they wanted to do in their comments. I think they missed the aim, not in design and art, and voicing (which are very good) (the game is up to their standards) but in story-telling. I think they lost too much extra energy deepening the psychology and back-story of secondary not useful characters to set an atmosphere and try to create a whole-world while a more direct approach, like linear straightforward would have been more effective. It is the problem with those post apocalyptic cyberpunk universe...it's too large, you need to cut too much to the edges to make a story told quick...so despite nicely designed puzzles, nice characters, great voice overs, you stay on your hunger and it it a bit dull and lacks of fun. Maybe it is personal and I am not a big fan of post apocalypse stuff but it's their game I liked the least...It is technically good, but I had not a lot of fun playing it. I strongly recommend, Old skies that is day and night and shows the progress of this studio...or Rosewater, or any "fun oriented" Point and Click with a least "serious" approach...a more "Sierra moonlight 90" approach. being too serious is a challenge also because you need to create a whole universe with limited ressources and this is no easy tasks. To sum up: it's not bad but I had not a lot of fun from it. I still recommend it for fans of the genres because, everybody knows there are scarce on the market. The main designer compares a puzzle in its comments to a Daedelic one from "Chains of Satinav" but the comparison stops there because Satinav was much better in my opinion. If you take Kathy Rain also you also have very linear and not trying to create a whole world around it...it's not great either but it's more direct and has more impact. Happy this studio is still creating and they also do more impacting stories.

Love the world-building, the whole art direction and atmosphere of the game. Some of the characters are very cool. The storyline, however, is fairly stock-standard in its arc, and I think if you're going to do that then you want to build it in to a grand and satisfying climax, which i don't think they succeeded in fully. The alternative would be to add a load of twists in to make it more interesting but, aside from a couple of moments, there were not really many revelation moments. I have still given it a thumbs up as I did enjoy the playthrough, but it doesn't hold a candle to something like Primordia from the same developer.

Brilliant game, wish it was longer.

Awesome game. loved the puzzles - good mix of progress and difficulty. Definitely recommend!