The Shopkeeper

J'étais curieux d'essayer ce jeu qui avait le plus bas rating de toute ma librairie. C'est un curieux point & click qui se finit très rapidement, ~5 minutes à-peu-près pour finir une "partie", et ~60 minutes pour débloquer tous les achievements. L'histoire se tort sur elle-même comme un serpent, et ressemble à une courte nouvelle littéraire. Je donne une évaluation positive pour la tentative d'approche artistique, mais ne payez surtout pas plus de 1$.

It's a short point and click game which suffers from disjointed storytelling. When the game starts out you have no idea what you're supposed to do or even what the basic premise is. After five minutes of clicking and exposition I finally figured out that there's a guy about to visit his mother-in-law and he's asking a shopkeeper for advice about a present and how to approach the (unfriendly) mother-in-law. Depending on what things you click on you get a different story. There are also different dialogue options and a few different endings, but which ending you get is essentially random. Completing the game takes less than five minutes and then you can try another pattern of choices. But the whole story is pretty mundane. Even the "best" ending is rather underwhelming. Yes, the game is inexpensive but there's not much to it either.

(game not complete at .3 hours of gameplay and oh god I'm glad it's over, part of my review all my games effort) (short version) Getting ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at simulator. On a serious note though, imagine that you woke up in a friends body, after they forgot to buy something that their partner very strongly stressed they get at the store, and now you can't get it for three days due to a holiday and it's desperately needed. That's what you'll experience playing this game. Non-stop being aggressively complained at. So if that's your deal, $3 should be a bargain.

It's easy to farm this game for achievements, but honestly there's no point to it otherwise. Extremely boring dialogue, complete lack of story or motivation, and repetitive use of scenery. No joke, I believe there are only six location frames and four characters for this entire game. The game just starts, you click on an object in an antique store, you hear a boring description, and then you have a boring conversation using the same few lines of dialogue. Repeat that like a dozen times, and you get all the achievements.

It is an interesting experience, that everyone should interpret for themselves.

[h1]Summary[/h1] Very short repetitive point and click narrative with barely any gameplay and mundane story. [b]Pros[/b] + Unique [b]Cons[/b] - Repetitive - Not much gameplay [h1]Overview[/h1] The Shopkeeper is a very short and repetitive barely point & click narrative game, each playthrough is simply a repeat of short interactions between an antiques shopkeeper telling stories of an item with a young business man and later the latter with his mother in law. Each playthrough takes about 5 minutes or so and after 1 go you pretty much get the gist of the game. [b]Story[/b] Although the game is titled The Shopkeeper he is not particularly involved in the story other than someone that starts off the story of the young businessman and his interactions with his mother in law as they are more the focus. The story has different endings and a few differing interactions based on your choices but overall there isn't much and so each playthrough will have you going through the same dialogues and interactions. There kind of is a story going on between the young businessman and his mother in law but its so short and not a lot is told from the interactions and every playthrough that you don't really get invested in their story or relationship. [b]Gameplay[/b] Barely any gameplay at all. There is only about 3 scenes and you click around some items to get some story told about them, then there's the short dialogues with choices you pick before it all ends and you start a new playthrough to check out other items or try other dialogue choices. Achievements are rather annoying as you need to do certain specific things to get them. [hr][/hr] If you find my reviews useful do follow my [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/11028547-Dods-Echo-Chamber/]Curator[/url][/b] page for more!