Ghost of a Tale

Ghost of a Tale has a charming story, likeable characters and occurs in a beautiful world. However a lack of voice acting hinders immersion, the core gameplay is repetitive and devoid of challenge and the game is plagued by several bugs. If you go into it for the stealth gameplay you will probably be dissapointed. If you go into it for the characters and aesthetic then you will be pleased. A lot of potential but falls down when it comes down the execution. Full review published on Flayrah: https://www.flayrah.com/7315/review-ghost-tale

I like stealth games and good adventure - and this game ticks all the right boxes for me. There were few main selling points for me here: Its immersive adventure in beautiful, very detailed world. The world design borrows heavily from first Dark Souls game, and as much as I love that game I dare to say here it is much more cleverly designed, with lots of hidden secret passages and details put into it. The games is focused heavily on exploration, finding things and avoiding enemies. No minimaps, quest markers and other horrible modern stuff - the game feels old school in that manner and I loved it. This plays like a stealth/puzzle solving game, but it feels like a puzzle game in the same way that Looking Glass games felt - not in a way of point and click adventures (but there were few riddles to solve on the way). You can save game only in "safe" spots - very cool concept and works perfectly. The experience is "casualised" a bit here and there - the game gets easier as it progresses and allows you to obtain hints and maps for money. This does not ruin the fun, but removes lot of frustration associated with being "stuck" for too long. You will get stuck once in a while anyway, do not worry. My only complaint is that I would remove some hints for secondary quests - they are optional anyway so no need to make it too easy, especially since you can figure out everything when you pay enough attention to the world and the dialogues. The stealth system is quite original and works very well. It is totally unrealistic and a bit too easy, but it all fits perfectly with cartoonish style of the game. Unfortunately the game is not perfect and I need to address few things: The experience quality drops significantly in last third of the game. The attention to detail and level of polish of the first few hours of the game are not carried through the whole playthrough. (which is a case for most games actually...) The game tries to throw too much fetch quests at player at some point (they really should have cut out some of the quests from the game) and it also tries to take more "cinematic" approach at the end which it fails to do, exposing many design limitations. There is a moment when you start getting that indie game feeling, that some obvious things are missing due to limited budget and resources. The game also throws more and more dialogue lines at the player as story progresses and the quality of that aspect also drops a lot, the later conversations drag for too long and are quite uninspired. I would also do the ending differently, but thats a minor thing. I wasnt that much into story anyway, I liked the lore and some characters very very much, but found a whole main story a bit bland and too complex for its own sake. Anyway the game was great and much better than I ever expected any indie title to be. If you like adventure and exploration - this is must have.

Pour ceux/celles qui hésiteraient à cause du mode ‘action-RPG’ : Depuis tjs, j’évite comme la peste les jeux où on veut tuer mon perso. Courir pour sauver ma peau, me cacher in extremis, neutraliser mes ennemis, etc. Pas-mon-truc. Ça me stresse et je n’aime pas ça. J’aime jouer détente et sérénité. J’ai donc naturellement failli passer mon chemin. Heureusement Tilo m’a retenue :) Vraiment, aucune difficulté. On meurt qqfois au début, le temps d’apprendre le gameplay (très simple et confortable) et comment tout ce petit monde s’articule. On récupère en plus assez rapidement des sorts tout simples qui aident bien. Une fois cette partie maîtrisée (ça ne prend pas très longtemps et je ne suis pas douée..), c’est du pur bonheur. Tout est pensé, travaillé, peaufiné… aimé. Toli est à croquer, l’animation fluide, les décors somptueux et vraiment immersifs, la lumière du petit jour, les nuits éclairées par les torches, les bruitages géniaux – ces ptis pas de souris qui trottine… :)) la musique magnifique et les dialogues (fr) truculents avec de superbes dessins 2D qui donnent le ton et laissent la part belle à l’imagination… Sans compter Silas, Rolo, Fautus, Deluinn, le Commandant… toute une panoplie de personnages vraiment attachants qui se découvrent tout doucement au sein d’un Lore vraiment construit et passionnant. C’est juste bluffant. Et j’ai vraiment ri plusieurs fois xD En résumé : Les + : Tout ! Les - : On n’a pas envie de jouer à autre chose quand on a fini Ce jeu est unique, ne passez pas à côté. Merci Seith pour cette merveilleuse imagination ♥ et à toute l’équipe pour ce rendu extraordinaire. PS : pas rencontré de pb particulier pour la dernière mission mais elle tranche trop avec le reste du jeu. Définitivement pas ma partie préférée ;)

Truly a wonderful and creative experience. Certainly one of the most creative games I've played. I'd definitely recommend it if you're looking for a game with great world building, great story, and that is incredibly well written, the gameplay is pretty fun too. I'd say it's a must buy for sure. Can't wait for the upcoming sequel!

When I saw the trailer for this game I was amazed by how good it looked, and I'm happy to say it is as good a game as it looked in the trailer, it's like playing a fairy tale, or perhaps one of the Redwall books. It's a light stealth game, but the real meat here is the extremely well-crafted world that the developer has created. It's very rich and full of deep lore and entertaining characters, and one very helpful touch they added was the ability to look up in-universe words as the NPC's mention them in the dialogue. On top of all that, this game is just beautiful to look at, the programmers really nailed the look that rays of sunlight have when coming up over the horizon or the last rays of sunset. Wonderful game, I can't recommend it enough.