Posted on: August 7, 2024
JazGalaxy
Verified ownerGames: 8 Reviews: 2
Less than "promised".
I debated buying this game for an extremely long time because the premise sounded amazing, but I generally don't like "narrative" games. I like GAME, games. And exactly what I was afraid this game would be, it is. This game, like many "narrative adventure games" dresses itself in the trappings of being an actual adventure game. But in reality, you have VERY little choice and VERY little ability to interact. The premise of the game is phenomenal: You are on a quest to kill a princess. But the quest was given to you by someone who lacks candor, the the princess is said to be a liar and a deceiver. In short, you don't know WHAT to believe. What will you do? It doesn't matter, because this premise is thrown out the window in about 45 seconds in order to tell an existential surrealist narrative that doesn't really have anything to do with the premise. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE surrealism. And there are a lot of amazing surrealist gems in this script. But with the game so quickly abandoning the very concept of "characters", "setting" and even "having a point", I quickly became bored and was playing just to justify the money I spent. If you do buy this, you're buying it for better-than-average surrealist poetry and some occasionally good art. That's about it, in my opinion.
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