The Devilry Reservation

Очень достойная бродилка: текста много, но он читается на одном дыхании - диалоги продуманные, живые, без лишней воды. Персонажи ощущаются настоящими: разные, запоминающиеся, с характером. Благодаря этому история раскрывается особенно ярко. Сюжет тоже радует - необычный, увлекательный и держит интерес до конца За игру спасибо крутышке из [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/anatomyoffear/curation/app/2309630/] Анатомия страха [/url]

It is a better first attempt at a game than most low budget indies that make something on MS Paint and market it as a unique bullet hell experience, but it is unpolished and mostly dull. First of all the pixel art is too vague and undetailed to the point the player does not know what they are looking at and all the atmosphere and world building the creator wants to craft bleeds out of the presentation, never immersing the player in the world. It took a character mentioning in dialogue that a shotgun was hanging over the fireplace for me to realize that I was not looking at jumbled wall textures smudged together to simulate an old apartment background fell but an important set piece I might have to interact with later on. Where the pixel art fails, the dialogue also fails. The player approaches a misshapen, vague-looking point of interaction and with an action button the character is prompted into explaining to the player what they are supposed to be looking at, but the explanatory text is equally vacant and dull and uninteresting as the presentation. The dialogues between the characters feel like they were written by someone that has forgotten how people talk and is having a hard time writing a conversation for their fanfiction, exposition dumping, motive dumping the entire conversation like robots going through the motions of human interaction. The gameplay consisting of fetch quests and reading badly written dialogues that info dump about stuff the player does not care about in an attempt to provide some world building. “I am a demon, my father was such and such, I came to this world at 1304 when this happened to me, my father can travel between worlds, I have 13 siblings, now I don’t have the power, I lived with a dude for some years and we played games, but then he left some years ago.” This is what dialogues in this game are like. The duration: I am a slow reader, it took me around 2 hours to finish the game, if I were to spam the skip button and avoid the info dump exposition that adds nothing to the game, I would have finished the game in half an hour. After I beat the game I got a message that I finished episode 1 and there is a second episode I can buy as DLC for around 7 euros/dollars since buying this 2 hour game once is not enough to afford me the full experience. I have shunned better games for butchering their content to sell them as “episodes”, but this incomplete, barely-functional text adventure asking for seconds after under-delivering is bizarre.