Posted on: April 19, 2021

Ahmn

Spiele: 278 Rezensionen: 111

Good game but not the personality system

I liked the puzzles, story, setting, music and environments. Length is good. Not too long, not too short. The things that stand out is the world itself. It's nice to see such a different take on a science fiction story. Rather than high tech it's semi-crumbled and for good reasons. Puzzles are great too. For me the biggest flaw was the personality system. It's mostly (entirely?) based on dialogue options. I wouldn't mind, except that it's so obvious which option is connected to a certain trait. For intelligence, use the smart line. For charisma, use the leader line. For strength or whatever the third one was, use the cool reply. It feels like the character is 3 entirely different persons at once and it breaks the immersion and flattens the main character. I think they could have done it better. Like lets say you enter a crime scene, find someone hurt and you call the ambulance before you pick up a certain item - maybe it could give a + on kindness or whatever. Just choosing between three different dialogue options feels a bit like it does more harm than good. It gives some variability at the expense of other things. Almost a 4.

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Posted on: March 23, 2024

castarco

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Spiele: 188 Rezensionen: 3

Good story, short, subpar graphic art

I'll be brief with my critique. - The story is pretty good, although too short for my taste. - The ambient music is OK, but far from memorable (I'd already forgot how it sounds, and it's been just 30 minutes since I finished it). - I'd say that its most disapointing aspect is its graphic art. I'm not talking about the low resolution, but to other aspects that indicate clear lack of polish: - plenty of noise artifacts in surfaces that should be "plain" - the excessive posterisation applied to the game characters to reduce the color palette looks like a quick job made without much care. - bad "animations". It can be seen when the train arrives to the station, or when characters are walking (they seem to slide instead of walk; same applies to the changes in size due to perspective, they are not performed nicely). Other than that, I really don't like not being able to save my game at a specific point so I can continue from there later. Having to play the whole game again to explore other branches is quite unappealing.

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Posted on: July 30, 2020

m000

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Spiele: 575 Rezensionen: 10

Satisfying retro sci-fi adventure

Retro-style adventures need some extra spice to not come out as dry and formulaic. Whispers of a Machine has that spice, in the form of Vera's augmentations. The augmentations mechanics works really well and sets the game apart from other retro-adventures that are limited to the tried-and-tested approach of controlling multiple characters (Blackwell, I'm looking at you). Moreover, they give a fair amount of replayability to the game. Yes, it is true that the game is kind of short. But I don't think that takes away from the game. It's better to have a short and tight game, rather than one padded with extra puzzles, just to extend the gameplay time. Having said that, try to buy the game on a discount, so you won't feel cheated in the end :).

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Posted on: January 30, 2021

RobertZFord

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 10

Very well done

Fantastic game, and incredible representative of its genre. It has a solid story, and tastefully challenging puzzles. Some might consider it short (I finished it start to finish in about two evenings) but I feel like it told the story it needed to and didn't overstay its welcome at all. Throw in three distinct play styles with different results, and it has plenty of replay value. All in all, well worth the money if you're even mildly interested in this style.

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Posted on: May 8, 2021

ISnoodBear

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Spiele: 336 Rezensionen: 17

This is my perfect jam

This is a point-and-click adventure game that hits all the right notes. It's got that refined, but old school look, good clean puzzles (no moon logic), solid writing, compelling voice acting, some modern mechanics that vary up the game, and multiple endings. It's not a terribly long game, I think it took me about 10 hours or so, but that can be a good thing. Especially with replay to get different achievements or endings. Only one or two puzzles gave me issues, but I pushed through them after a bit. I liked the plot and the world and would love to see a sequel or different story set in the same setting. Overall I'd say this is a good, solid addition to any point-and-click fan's collection.

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