Stories: The Path of Destinies

I spent with this title a few hours and concluded plying of that title because I lack of gamepad that is supported, and control by mouse and keyboard is somehow symptoms of self sadism. Sadly only XBOX controller nothing else, but if you have "supported" controller and you ignore graphic and focused on story, logic puzzles you can have fun with this title (especially narrator is funny).

The ending's abrupt for all the work you can put into getting it, but the game's fun if a little basic.

The game itself is great. The narrator is outstanding and the story is well told and dark. Decisions really change the outcome and while the game is rather short, you have to play it multiple times in order to get the different stories. BUT the game is horribly optimizied! The graphics are alright, but they rarely hit 60 fps. I could play Hellblade in highest settings with 60 fps throughout, or Prey or countless other games, but this struggles to keep a steady framerate! The options for graphics is downright insulting, giving you just four different settings to choose from (very low, low, med and high). At the start the game checks your hardware and sets the graphics accordingly. For my system it suggested low...with an i5 @3.5 GhZ, 8 GB DDR3 Ram, GeForce 1050 Ti with 8 gigs. That should tell you how much optimization went into this title! At a discount I would say go for it. It´s a good game, but beware that it runs like crap.

One of the most plesant suprises i have encontered. Game is simply speaking beautiful, hack and slash (but fighting system might be a little bit challenging) and focuses strongly on exploration and story telling. Narrative voice, as well as idea of "uncovering" winning path ist the strogest prons to this game. I laughed about jokes mocking other series, or typical hack&slash player behaviour. First pass allows you to complete the game in about an hour, but... and this idea is simply briliant, its not end of a game. You need to uncover oder possibilities, stories, learn from your failtures, to finally win, this one decisive hero path with happy ending. I really enjoyed it, but also regret, it was not taken even further. Plus once all truth is uncovered, game literraly "advices" best option, with is wrong, when it comes to concept. I really think This game might benefit more if it would focus on more "truths", noting down the most significant relations between events like what happends to the stone if XYZ with turned up to be common motive for couple of stories. Nevertheless this game is totaly worth its price. I enjoyed it a lot, smiled even more, and tommorow, well im curious how other outcomes look like :) Its really attaching player to characters in plot, as well as with beatiful level design and music. I recomend it strongly.

I feel the game- for the price of 15 bucks -is pretty decent with very nice style for the most part. Though I do admit it has some faults. The characters may "Float" and I've seen a few assets randomly floating, but over all the game is very good with it's style and it's stories are rather interesting. I want to play the game an see all the stories and for 15 bucks I think I have definately gotten my money's worth to see where the game goes. The gameplay might not be the most engaging honestly compared to other games, I'll admit. You use the mouse to move and attack. it's a bit painful after a while so, take breaks. and the buttonlayout by default is a little funky, but easy to grasp. So, if you want something fun for the kids or just in general something to play with a bit of british humor and cheesey lines occasionally, this'll be one of the many things on GOG that'll click that ticket for you.