Whiskey-Four

Brilliant writing, story and characters. Praying for a sequel.

11/10

Очень-очень классный текстовый квест! Вариативность достаточно маленькая по сравнению с другими играми данного жанра в стиме, но меня устраивает, так как десять слегка отличающихся друг от друга вариантов тоже утомляют. В плане сюжета - по сути ацуенная книга жанра фантастика, сильно выделяется на фоне достаточно посредственных конкурентов. Оторваться от чтения просто невозможно, экшен бомбезный. Если вы любитель(ница) текстовой романтики то тут она только мельком, но сами персонажи хорошо прописаны и отсутствие подробной нц-ы не огорчает. Роман с яндере-бывшим вообще цьмок! В целом вайбы хорошего большого квеста из Киберпанка 2077. Если вы выбираете к какой игре из choice of games\hosted games приобщиться то обязательно купите эту, но скорее всего оставьте ее на десерт, потому что у меня смутные подозрения что теперь мне сложно будет перестать сравнивать все будущие игры с этой. (п.с. только не пинайте гранату, я знаю что будет очень хотеться но не стоит)

I had a blast, best Choice Of game I've ever played. My only complaint is one I have with most of these games and its that I can't make my own saves. I point this out because toward the end I started to get what some may consider a bad end, and the game asked me if I would like to continue to the epilogue or go to a checkpoint- no idea where that checkpoint was, but I wanted to see if I could do better without replaying the 9 hours I had spent getting there. Turned out it was just passed a point I had already used an item [spoiler] fire grenade [/spoiler] that I think would have gotten me possibly the best ending, or closer to it at least. Still, if you like sci-fi action, this is IT. I sincerely look forward to more of their work.

[i]Whiskey-Four[/i] is a great game. Alongside the author's other work, [i]I, the Forgotten One[/i], it's clear that the author is an excellent writer. I found the story compelling and interesting and really enjoyable. There's not any stat building in this one, although there are a few things tracked like your injury state or what items you have on you. This CYOA is on the more railroady side of the genre, but I don't think it's that bad. The narrative is linear but there is plenty of variation within that. There are meaningful choices, but their consequences sometimes come later rather than immediately. If you do a thing, then later on something might happen differently. It'll be a perfectly logical consequence, it's just that you aren't necessarily getting instant feedback about it. I don't think there anything wrong with preferring overt and immediate consequences over subtler ones like this, it just comes down to preference. I tend to find that CYOAs like [i]Whiskey-Four[/i] trade a bit of freedom for a more interesting and compelling main character. Which you prioritise is up to you. I will say that the last quarter of the game is where there's the highest density of meaningful choices, where [spoiler]how quickly your character is able to complete an objective becomes very important[/spoiler]. However, I do have one rather large issue with this game: no saving or even checkpoints. Saving is very uncommon in Choice of / Hosted Games, so it's far from a problem unique to this game, but it really does annoy me. Some CYOAs, including [i]I, the Forgotten One[/i] if I remember rightly, let you rewind back the last checkpoint, but this game doesn't even do that. The game already gives you some options that trade immersion for quality of life; personally I would've put an option to enable saves or checkpoints there too.

i loved the writing of most of the characters they're realistic and have many in-depth details that add to their role in the setting also the lore of many aspects of the story was much appreciated the history between MC and Ulysses is super rare to be encountered and very it was well made their relationship is very gray which makes it realistic also it wasn't the focus thanks

It's good. The alien was quite well done too - sort of Lovecraftian which was cool.