Liberated

the gameplay is really juste here to distract from the somewhat forward reading and the goal is totaly achieved for me. The story is nice and the black and white type comics makes a really great aura to the game. To me Liberated is a welle balanced gameplay/story/time to finish (at least the 4 first chapters. Thanks for that game

Never played something like this "comic like" and i like the mechanic and the narrative. The gameplay is not good but also not as bad as some reviews say. A side scroll with shooting and 4 or 5 puzzles here and there which is entertaining at first but gets boring by the end of the game. Had some bugs and technical problems probably cause my resolution (4k) but the history was worth. If you like the idea of an interactive comic i would try it at least

The say "Adventure - Action - Sci-fi", but it 80% a visual novel. The good: somehow innovative narrative approach, very nice art. The bad: very short (3-4 hours), story is OK but bland; gameplay is repetitive (same kind of enemies, each encounter is not a surprise), AI ranges between OK and lame ; buggy (see below), no choice or little, QTE at the wrong time, they tell you can hide but there is 0 (zero) stealth. You are forced into using this or that weapon, you may no carry even two of them. Conclusion: 20$/€ is way too much. I bought it for 10€ and was angry at me not to have tried the demo. May be 5 ? I stopped at the end of the story (4 chapters) and do not plan to read the DLCs. Bugs: controller as no dead zone - I had to use Joy2Key just for that. Animation is OK, but the character continues to run when you make it stop (really, it walks/run on place). Every move has a un-interruptible time, so you may not change your current action.

Liberated's premise is a familiar one. A totalitarian state rules the near future and it's up to you and a ragtag group of characters to start a revolution in hopes of shutting down the government and regaining freedom. While the premise is nothing out of the ordinary, the story is actually pretty well executed and characters behave in a realistic way. It does a good job of mirroring current society and speculating how things might go without feeling like pandering or talking down to the audience (which is sadly a rare thing these days for this sort of tale). The art direction is probably what sells this game. The narrative is told in a gritty comic book style with monochromatic visuals in order to bette reflect the established dystopian scenario. Voice acting is pretty good too and helps sell the tone even better. Unfortunately, the gameplay is where things start to fall apart. The game starts promising, perfectly mixing elements of stealth and action with some light puzzles, but as soon as gunplay is introduced, stealth is out the window for good. Forget about choosing whether to hide, run or shoot. It's shoot or die. Even in the few times you're given a place to hide, it's basically just to delay the inevitable shooting for a few seconds. There's nothing inherently bad about this kind of gameplay, but the problem is that the setting and tone of the game work better with at least the choice of stealth. The "Inside"-style level design seems tailored to encourage stealth as well. And it's what the game promises at the start, so you feel like you've been baited and switched. Furthermore, controls aren't so good, making the pedestrian gunplay even less interesting, so there's that. I think it's an alright first try for the developer, and I hope they take notes for their next title. They're promising, but they need to make a better effort next time. It's clear storytelling and visuals are their forte, so perhaps their next game should be a graphic adventure.

This game is probably as close to an interactive comic book as you can get. Sure, the mechanics in the sidescroller sections could've used some more polish, but even as they are they work well enough. The art style is great and fits the theme very well. The story is pretty depressing, but I suppose that's to be expected from a dystopian plot like this.