The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

Got this great 'Choose your own adventure' style interactive fiction on a free giveaway. Set in a rigid hierarchical empire where the Gods are very real and assign everybody a "Lot", a person's ordained destiny and social class, from birth and people can die up to three times before reaching their 'True Death'. Nobles rule over the population, Priests preach and the Commoners fate is to suffer and toil for the Nobles. The story takes place over five chapters, covering your birth and childhood and your adulthood and the events that shake the empire. For each Lot there are two paths; Empire and Rebel. The first 2 and half chapters follow a shared path then you select the Lot route and during the fourth (and very long) chapter you lean yourself towards Empire or Rebel. I enjoyed it overall and thought the story and writing were pretty good, with interesting world building and difficult moral dilemmas. There's an Ironman mode (which prevents you from being able to restart from the current or past chapters) and another option to hide choice consequences (which prevents you from seeing what a choice will do). You might want to try with the hidden consequences for a run or two but it's definitely easier to play without it. This is very much a 'stat' management game; if you select options that don't work towards your goal or your Lot requires you can get into unwinnable situations where you can only die as your stats aren't high enough to trigger other choices. This can lead to disconnects if you want to role play more as that might mean picking the 'wrong' option. Unfortunately, there's no way to fast skip text automatically, you have to manually spam keys and click the mouse. Available choices can get heavily restricted in the late stages of the game too. The game is also a chore to 100% as it requires a lot of playthroughs with many special, conflicting events especially in chapter 4 that you need as well as some events with very tight paths to actually accomplish. 8.5/10

bon c'est pas un jeu à choix joyeux ! Soyez averti ! MAIS j'ai joué les 8h d'affilée... bah oui il vaut le coût ! Y a pas de N+ mais avec choix de ce qu'on peut espere avoir comme conséquence. Perso, je l'ai fait à l'aveugle et c'était trop bien ! Oui on est frustré parce qu'on a pas les bonnes stats mais c'est trop bien ! MAUVAIS : les dialogues en francais, si vous avez une mauvaise vue sont parfois très petits. Donc : TROP BIEN ! Ps : à pas mettre entre toutes les mains ;) +- 16 ans ?

The game bad. The story is good and engaging. I recommended it for some people. This game deserves a Maybe instead of a Yes/No. "edit: Oh yeah, the "game" loves fake choices too it seems. Do something minorly positive now that later gives huge negatives. Or something thats bad now and randomly would have worked out GREAT later. Its full of these "gotchas". It not dealing fairly. You might as well randomize your choices, so i dont see the point of the option to give you info on what a choice does." It have so many choices but its still a railroad. I went into it blind. Very quickly i decided upon 2 things, very simple, i figured choices would screw me over if i cared about too many things so i just set my sights on 2 things. Support Stephen and myself/church. (Did this in act 1) I figured a two folded approach to bring power to myself and him and our family by being in two pillars of the three making up society. I saw the timeline that there would be a revolution at the end no matter what so fine. Grow powerful and throw everyone else aside, be it other family or friends or whatever. Yet at every point i was denied growth in myself or the church, and later choices that would improve it for the both of us was locked for some reason. I felt entirely railroaded the entire time, as if my choices didnt matter at all. After a while i put on the option to see the outcome of my choices. Yet everything wasnt shown after choices. Many times there came aditional bonuses or negatives of choices beyond the ones shown. It feels like the game is not playing fair despite saying it will. So i just started fast forwording to choices just to see where things were going. It just kept screwing me over. Choices to grow in theology and eloquence was simply locked out. I kept getting points in the things i didnt need... like a choice said id grow in favor with my brother and then i got bonuses to valor or manipulations. Things i didnt care about... The game is so limited in what it allows you to do. There were so many options that were greyed out that would help me/church or my brother but i wasnt allowed to pick them and instead i was forced to go with something pointless... like giving me more Will which i had an abundance off already or give a point in favor to a character i couldnt care less about. It felt like the game railroaded me into getting in love/having relationships with character i wanted to give ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about. Its a railroad story game, i dont get to give a damn about character i dont give a damn about. I dont get to sacrifice people i dotn give a ♥♥♥♥ about. In DnD terms it feels like im dealing with a DM that is hellbent on telling their story regardless of what i want. Was it too much to ask to have 2 goals? Support a brother whenever possible, and progress myself at the cost of everyone else? Ive never been denied such a simple set of goals in a game before. Am i only allowed 1 goal? If so the game is utter ♥♥♥♥ really, its just a novel in the guise of a game, im almost done with Act 4. My expectations are trash atm.

Отличная игра! Мне немного не хватило более эмоциональных и личных сцен как с романтическими интересами героя, так и с членами его семьи. Отдельно понравилось, что через пару изменений выборов по итогу я смог вывести своего Бранте на концовку, где все мои близкие и друзья живы и даже вполне счастливы, а сам Бранте построил вполне успешную карьеру. Честно говоря, ожидал подвоха, что концовки будут примерно "Мрачняк или полный мрачняк", но нет. Хотя, конечно, многие погибли, но в моей истории это были те, кто как раз сам сделал свой выбор и это честная цена за него

Sehr tolles Spiel mit guter Geschichte, guten Charakteren und Entscheidungen die sich anfühlen, als hätten sie Einfluss. Für Leute die lesen hassen auf jeden Fall nicht empfohlen, für die die es aber irgendwie hinbekommen eine absolute Perle. Gut und Böse verschwimmt oft: wie steht man zur eigenen Familie die ja durchaus auch Dinge tut, die stark verwerflich sind? Will man seinen Nachfahren ein besseres Leben ermöglichen und wenn ja, zu welchem Preis? Welchen Lebensweg will man einschlagen? Eines der Spiele wo man wirklich das Gefühl hat, die Geschichte mitzuschreiben. Top!

A fun choose-your-own-adventure game, but much like the books, you can fall into plenty of pitfalls and have your run fall apart after hours of playing. The game is meant to be played multiple times, and you should definitely go in blind on your first playthrough before looking at a guide for help.

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Recomendado, es como un libro de "Elije tu propia aventura"