Posted on: July 31, 2022

crimsonking80

Games: 174 Reviews: 44

Solid Adventure

The story is intriguing although the characters aren't very relatable. I'm a software engineer and this is one of the few sci-fi stories that actually makes sense. There are a lot of references to real stuff (at some point they launch a missile that's called BEAST: they're launching a BEAST attack! :D). It's not just a guy going wild with his imagination without any base knowledge about technology whatsoever (looking at you, George Lucas :P) and I really appreciate it. The pixel art is spot on. Not necessarily the most gorgeous, but back in the '90s they weren't much better and I'd say it's done on purpose (plus point for truthfulness). The colors, by the way, are amazing and really contribute to the setting. The interface is a bit clunky, but again it could be seen as a conscious choice on the retro verve. The puzzles are quite challenging, with many red herrings and intermissions that prevents you from brute-force them. Overall they're well designed, although sometimes you have to do things in a specific order or it won't work, leading you to think you're on the wrong path even if it's not the case. I didn't fell in love with it like I did for instance with Primordia, but I can't say it's a worse game either. It's a solid game, if you liked Beneath a Steel Sky and want more of it, this is definitely for you.

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Posted on: June 19, 2024

FimaRoz

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Games: 30 Reviews: 2

Great game, underrated in my opinion

I just finished the game, and it felt so much satisfying, while it has its problems, it has more bright sides that I enjoyed. First of all, I recommend playing this game on the hardcore mode, I felt like the devs did great job with the puzzles, and most of them are logical and solvable, I never resorted to a walkthrough and I recommend playing the same way, as it would spread out the game, and help absorb the story more completely. There are a lot of hints towards the harder puzzles, just exploring the game, talking to other characters, re reading dialogs can help a lot with finding whatever it is I was struggling with. If I had a struggle at one point of the game, I just took a break, went to do something else and then had an "AHA" moment where I would get understand what should I do, or what else I can try. The biggest weak point of the game is the writing of our protagonist Nathan, especially in the begging, his motives are unclear(Why is he looking so much for Jay? is he madly in love? is he desperate?) maybe they are explained but they are not felt, he dressed like an futuristic bad ass, but he is being way too nice at some scenarios, at one point he ranted about the injustices of society, which is a great thing to have in cyberpunk game, but it felt out of character for him at that moment, and more like "oh cute, this nice boy is trying to imitate Tyler Durden". And at the game we get to do a lot of punk stuff, so a little more dark Nathan would have been so appropriate and could have been on a cult level with Tyler Durden, But by the mid game I barely noticed it, I think the writing got better, or the supporting characters helped to understand him better. Anyway, this game is great for cyberpunk theme lovers, the story is punk, the art is super punk, the music is punk, I recommend this game as I enjoyed it so much, in an era where we didn't had a decent cyberpunk advanture game since technobabylon, this is a true gem.

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Posted on: August 19, 2024

Dohi64

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Games: 425 Reviews: 59

boring pixel hunt, clunky controls

looks and sounds great, has demo, instant and silent text display, manual text advance toggle and manual saving anytime over multiple slots (though only 9 for some unacceptable reason), on top of an autosave, and the map can be used for fast travel between main locations. they even patched in a 'story mode' to reduce puzzle ridiculousness and inventory clutter for fans of 'modern adventures' (their words, as if there weren't any done properly in olden times). however, even this supposedly more modern experience isn't 100% mouseable. there's only an inventory icon to click, the journal and map are hotkey-only, though you can go back and forth, as it's the same gadget. would've been trivial to add the inventory to the mix, plus a mouse action to bring it up without clicking the top left corner, especially in a game boasting about 'thousands of combinations' (again, as if it adds anything but tedium). another big mistake is the missing hotspot indicator. gotta move the mouse all over the screens like a masochistic idiot to find out (and potentially miss) what's what. can't double-click to move faster or leave the screen instantly and all the text is white, making it hard to tell who's talking. bland story and characters, including an unlikeable protagonist, make it impossible to recommend, or in my case even finish.

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Posted on: October 20, 2024

AdMeliora90

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Games: 22 Reviews: 1

really enjoyed it

I thought it was a fun puzzle game.

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Posted on: November 3, 2024

Dynastes91

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Games: 133 Reviews: 1

Well done

really nice and well-made

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