Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest

A fairly decent text/visual novel game set in VtM TTRPG setting. Can recommend if you're a fan of the genre.

it was my first entry to World of Darkness visual novels. I only played vampire the masquarade made by troika and i loved it. I was very excited to try some visual novels, because i genuinely love this setting. But i don't want to try them anymore. I don't mind eko-activism, i don't mind showing me how capitalism is bad and how it destroys the local enviorment. I don't mind having non-binary characters, and i don't mind getting political agenda being thrown at my face - because games and writing in general is something, that is made by people, who have their own believes, viewies and experiences. What I do mind is one-dimensional stories in a genre, that is only about writing. I do mind, when this agenda is being thrown at me in such uninteresting manner, that i want to puke. In the game made by troika, factions were about their believes, how they approach the problem, how they see it and the most important part - what their flaws are. Here, every tribe is about how they approach humans, except the funny "only strong lesbians" tribe. Oh, well , you think, maybe the tribe of your family is cool and strong and mysterious? nah, funny lesbians said that your family tribe is literally Hitler and fascist. What the ♥♥♥♥? What am i supposed to do with that information? How is that supposed to impact the story and my own choices? I liked mgs, i liked both tlou series, i liked playing both as a communist and a fascist in disco elysium, i enjoyed LiS at some point of my life, but this. This is something i can't take seriously. Maybe people with the same beliefes will find this wrting fascinating, but i simply can't.

This is an excellent format for a storytelling game and will attract those that want a break from button smashing, its basically an interactive book that is done with high quality writing and effect branching. Excellent...we need more!

Вот насколько у игры красивейший визуал - настолько же она уныла. Графомания та еще. Но перед художниками снимаю шляпу.

aboslutely wouldnt this geme, it one of the ever made from your expedctaion wil dreg down the hole, ok?

tbh i was shocked to find how boring flat and abrupt it all was with an art style like this i had high expectations but the art is the only good thing about it now a lot of the elements in this game could be replaced and it wouldn’t change a thing or leave any impact for a game about choices that heavily relies on different stats to block or forge paths esp relationship stats that are supposed to encourage you to form connections it feels incredibly unbelievable that the characters are this bland and one dimensional with no meaningful elaboration beyond a few tags they don’t feel lifelike at all just empty archetypes that exist purely as plot devices and when i don’t even care about any of these characters or frankly the main plot of the game the added political message just feels clumsy and makes you go “okayyy ig” what’s the point of the game? none of this is appealing and it’s extremely short kind of pretentious and weirdly schizo about something spiritual and supernatural it feels more like a pamphlet for some suburban cult with a bunch of zealous weirdos chanting about corn or in this case “protecting the forest” i feel cringe having finished this game and i would not recommend it

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