Posted on: May 14, 2020
brixx.744
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Style over substance
First of all: I do like the setting, I do like what Blood Music does in other entertainment genres and I do like pixelart. But while this checks all the boxes, I find it somewhat difficult to enjoy the game. On the one hand, I like the audio-visual aspect of the game. It has a nice neon-retro-cyberpunk-feel and there are obvious nods to elements associated with this everywhere. So it sets off as a maybe somewhat stereotypical, but not yet overused nice gritty cyberpunky point and click. However, it quickly trails off and every hint of a story is clustered with sometimes nonsensical or at least very far-fetched puzzles. In my opionion, a lot of good point&click games involve you in the story and have puzzles and diaolgues along the way that guide you through the story and play into it. However, the puzzle chains in VirtuaSense feel like they are disconnected from the story itself and simply "unlock" a new piece of dialog or a journal entry, without actually integrating themselves into the story. And on top of that, they are drawn out way too far for actually - in my opinion - very mundane aspects of the game. I don't want to spoil anything, but talking to at least 5 characters, traveling between locations multiple times, listening to very cringy and stereotypical characters and wasting a good 45 minutes early on for something that should be easily obtainable in such universe feels very unorganic. It is a game, yes, it has game puzzle logic, yes, and you find mostly enough hints for solution without guessing your way through, but so far I found basically every puzzle too drawn out for what you get in the end and far too distracting and disconnected from what could be described as a story. I haven't finished it yet and so far found myself pretty bored. Currently, there a better cyberpunk/sci point and click games out there, like Technobabylon or Gemini Rue. Give it a shot if you played through these, but play these first, if you haven't yet instead of this.
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