Posted on: September 16, 2020

Nezna1ek

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"not-so-narrative-adventure-game-thing"

Jon Ingold, the narrative director and one of the founders of Inkle studio, had an interesting presentation about Heaven's Vault at GDC18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o02uJ-ktCuk The issue I have with Heaven's Vault: it is not really a narrative-driven game(-thing). Lots of content is procedurally generated or randomly picked (from a pool of relevant choices). Writers/content creators gave up lots of control over the story/narrative in order to give you lots of freedom and let the story unroll "naturally" as you go. This may be good. In fact, it is probably great for some players. But it is also an inferior option for me. I like very logic, carefully designed and deep writing. The game gives you meaningful content but the overall perception over how payers should play the game (e.g. no saves) and the dictate of what is and what isn't meaningful is very alien to me. Is or isn't being stuck at some point at a story not meaningful? Why am I not allowed to ask the same question again? Why am I not allowed to visit the same locations again? I believe Inkle created something which is a more gamey and less narrative thing then they believe. The system they have created keeps the tension by constantly giving you something to chew, few choices to make and prevents some typical issues with "a player hasn't noticed". It has its price: you may not notice since you have always something to do, but the game plays you. You have found A not because you were in the right place at the right time. The game generated A for you because it was "meaningful" at that time and place.

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Posted on: August 6, 2021

Yorgl

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Un peu rèche mais très réussi et prenant

Heaven's Vault est un jeu dont il est évident qu'il manque un peu de finition dans le fond comme la forme. Pourtant, son cœur de jeu, l'univers qu'il présente et ses choix artistiques en font un titre qui sait faire oublier ses petits défauts pour nous embarquer dans une belle aventure. Visuellement, le jeu utilise des sprites(?) 2D dans un décor 3D. Un choix qu'on imagine en partie motivé par des raisons d'économie de temps et de moyens mais qui a été fiat avec assez de talent pour que cela soit plaisant, en donnant une touche à la fois figée (un peu comme un point and click) tout en conservant la liberté de mouvement. Les musiques sont peu variés, mais elles sont plutôt jolies et teintées de mélancolies. L'univers construit m'a surpris par son originalité, moi qui m'attendait à quelque chose de très terre à terre. Cela renforce l'envie de découvrir les mystères de celui-ci et d'aller au bout de l'histoire. Malgré un ton parfois singulier (notamment je trouvais que les persos avaient l'air souvent à fleur de peau), l'écriture est vraiment bonne et on a constamment la possibilité d'engager des dialogues qui viennent enrichir cela -et je dis bien la possibilité, ce qui permet de passer outre si cela est trop à notre goût. Le cœur du gameplay, les traductions, est géré de façon intelligente et progressif. Cela est peu varié, mais la mécanique d'associer des symboles à leur sens et d'adopter les automatismes évite la lassitude. Il faut malheureusement noter des bugs graphiques TRÈS fréquents. Jamais de quoi casser le jeu, mais parfois un moment solennel est un peu gâché par des morceaux entiers de 3D qui disparaissent et réapparaissent. Dommage. :/ C'est un jeu qui aurait probablement gagné à un peu plus de budget/finition, mais ça a été malgré ça une expérience super intéressante.

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Posted on: September 15, 2025

Diobanach

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There is a meditative quality to this

I rather enjoy this game, it has a meditative quality to it. The ongoing puzzle is to decrypt an ancient language, by building a dictionary along the way. The movement controls could be better, I nudged the heroine and she kept walking to a different area, but the worldbuilding has me hooked.

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Posted on: July 13, 2021

Regdillion

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Some tech flaws within astonishing game

I've never played a game like this. It's an amazing combination of history and the future, with all the awe of the distant past combined with the best of the philosophical questions that science fiction excels at. I found myself immersed in this archaeologist's life - sort of interested in the present, but driven by understanding the many mysteries of the past. Learning about this world was fascinating. Grappling with real challenges of history in a world that may not value an objective account of the past (as I'm sure many archaeologists can relate to) helped to ground this story. I often felt that the choices I made had genuine consequences. At times, I felt real danger. I didn't take for granted that the game would protect me from failing. This (combined with the single save file) made everything feel more real. I love languages, so I was thrilled to find a game that incorporated this. It does a good job balancing puzzle difficulty so that it's hard enough to feel like you're genuinely working through something, but you also don't need a linguistics background to do this. It's amazing to me that they managed to make a compelling game built around this core task. It pains me to not give such a creative and enjoyable game a perfect score, but the fact that pieces of the environment would sometimes fail to render until I was very close made early play a bit jarring, and entire walls failing to appear in key moments undercut what might otherwise have been a much more dramatic experience. I played this on a brand-new gaming desktop with a GTX 1660 Super GPU, leading me to believe that any graphical issues must be due to the game rather than hardware. The game's narrative quality was able to carry most of this weight, though. I'd give it a 4.5/5 if I could. Thanks for making a great game! tl;dr: If you like puzzles, language, history, and/or interactive fiction, I heartily recommend this. It's easily worth the 25 USD that I got it for. On sale, it would be a steal.

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Posted on: September 24, 2025

Dirkoo

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Marvelous

A really good game, so enjoyable pacing and puzzles

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