Posted on: April 10, 2019
CommanderLara
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Could have been a nice game ...
What _could_ have been a nice game, turned out to be just clicking from one line of dialogue to the other. After the first half an hour or so you have seen all the characters possible expressions, which only meet somewhat both text and emotions. They shift between three or four »attitudes« and there is no lip synchronisation at all. All characters remind of known actors - Michelle Pfeiffer came to mind or Zhang Ziyi - and it would have been nice with at least _some_ kind of speech sound. The backgrounds - like in a theatre - and chacters look nice, but since all you do is reading while the characters change their position and never really match the situation, there soon is no reason anymore to look at all this beauty. After one hour of gameplay you have seen everything there is to see. It took me 6,5 hours to complete the game (so tells me GOG Galaxy), and I kind of ask myself why I did it. The story itself is not that bad, but it is told in an especially boring way. There are two main characters, and it seems up to the player - or better: reader - to determine, who they are and what they did while nobody was watching - in any case not you, the player. They just tell about it in those dialogues, or they get accused for something, and it is some kind of weird if you get to know things about them you already should know – since you are »playing« them … reading them … … well … something like that … Even the option for some romance does not add some kind of _life_ to them. I liked the idea of a book-like story told like a play on stage, but »Solstice« is not good enough. Wouldn’t it been for the dialogues, I would recommend it for children under ten, and I see no reason at all why I would like to click all theese lines of text again, just to catch another one of the four possible endings.
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