Posted on: March 26, 2021

slowbasil

Jeux: 162 Avis: 1

Game is broken.

1 star review for a very simple reason. I played for an hour or so earlier, and the game ran fine. Checkpoints etc. saved as expected. Came back to it later to find the "continue" button doesn't work. You can click it all you want but I can't load my saved game. Since I don't want to risk losing my progress again, I don't really feel like I want to restart the game. This is made worse by the dreadfully slow movement speed in the game too. Backtracking areas I've already been through will take ages just because the game is SO SLOW. Having a run option would make it so much more playable. I like walking simulators for the most part, but the movement speed here really is a major issue. A shame. I was looking forward to playing it.

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Posted on: January 31, 2024

Lifthrasil

Jeux: Avis: 45

Pretty, buggy, boring

The visuals are nice. But they come at the price of bad optimization and still lots of bugs. This is a walking simulator, but the problem is, that the 'walking' part is slow and the protagonist often gets stuck without any obstacle. The only thing that helps is reloading the last checkpoint or restarting the level. Which gets tedious quickly. The beautiful scenery is also prone to flickering and disappearing textures. So this is only a 'game' for players with high end machines and a lot of patience. But honestly you're better of watching a Let's Play of this 'game'. The amount of interaction will be about the same.

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Posted on: April 8, 2022

Vapid Response Unit

Possesseur vérifié

Jeux: 279 Avis: 6

Dear Wolfenshock

Yup, it's a mix of Dear Esther, Wolfenstein The New Order, and Bioshock. In that it's a non-combat exploration experience (aka 'walking simulator') set in a hidden sealed away fallen utopia built by the Nazis but with retrofuturist technology. At times waaaay too dark to make anything out even with your gamma cranked way up (annoying - where was the zippo used in the first area as a way to make light?), a *very* slow walking pace which I can understand is to make you look around and find the story clues rather than just rush through like someone swapped your Ritalin for caffeine tablets, some annoying glitches (reloading from a checkpoint and being stuck on some stairs unable to move, requiring a restart of the chapter), and no option to replay chapters from the main menu, only a New Game... but I still wouldn't say I didn't like Paradise Lost. I've had far worse times with far bigger games. You can pretty much see the plot beats coming a mile off but it's got the kind of captivating bleakness that works well with a story like this, and visually it's very impressive for a project of its nature. Framing the chapters with the names of the Kubler-Ross 'Five Stages of Grief' model felt like an unwise attempt to add gravitas (especially as it skips 'Bargaining') - come on, you're dealing with a nuclear winter and a Nazi gotterdamerung project, that's already plenty heavy enough! From the ending I reached it wasn't really very clear what the outcome of my choice was, and I missed a couple of areas due to one-way transitions, but I suspect I'm going to play through again just to make other choices and find out.

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Posted on: August 8, 2022

Thunker

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Jeux: 1582 Avis: 498

Bon scénario mais attention aux glitchs

Sur le plan technique, le jeu est impressionnant. Les textures sont jolies et certains décors sont de toute beauté. Quand on baisse le regard, on voit le corps de notre personnage et ça, c'est très bien ! Cela renforce l'immersion. Je déplore cependant quelques détails qui manquent pour renforcer encore l'expérience : nous ne faisons aucune trace de pas dans la neige et où ne voit pas le souffle quand nous sommes dans le froid. Les développeurs n'y ont pas pensé ? Et je rajoute aussi : nous n'avons aucune interactivité avec le décor. Tout est figé ! C'est du détail mais ça fait toujours son petit effet. La musique est bien choisie, elle renforce l'ambiance mélancolique qui se dégage tout au long de notre exploration. L'histoire est très intéressante et nous n'échappons pas aux classiques du genre : notes et audios sont disséminés dans l'installation et c'est à vous de les trouver pour comprendre ce qui s'est passé. Et n'oublions pas la fameuse fonction "examiner" qui ne sert à rien vu qu'on peut pas vraiment regarder les objets comme on veut ! Lors des dialogues, nous pouvons effectuer des choix mais qui sont anecdotique vu qu'au final ça ne change rien. J'aime beaucoup comment l'histoire est découpée suivant les cinq étapes du deuil. Cela colle extrêmement bien aux personnages de cette aventure. J'ai eu des bugs comme le fait d'être coincé dans le seul et tomber sous le décor (un plaisir coupable). Je tiens à faire une remarque : nous ne pouvons pas courir ! Cela rend le jeu extrêmement lent par moment. Surtout qu'au final, il est plutôt court : en quelques heures, c'est fini. Paradise Lost se base sur le narratif, vous n'affrontez personne et vous ne pouvez pas mourir. Certains n'aimeront pas passer leur temps à déambuler dans des couloirs à lire des documents et je le comprends bien. Quant aux autres, vous les férus de "walking simulator", vous trouverez votre compte. Je le recommande ! J'ai beaucoup aimé !

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Posted on: August 26, 2023

Mjauv

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Jeux: 1030 Avis: 74

A rudimentary walking sim with bugs

Currently the game is discounted by 80 % - for that price it's an okay deal but full price is another story. Paradise Lost (PL) is yet another walking sim inspired by the Bioshock-idea of visiting the remnants of what was once a very interesting place to figure out what happened to it. In PL's case that place is an abandoned gigantic nazi bunker which you visit while escaping from the surrounding wasteland - in short, WW2 ended differently and you are one of few survivors after a nuclear holocaust. The nazi bunker has been the home of not only nazis but another group of survivors before you arrive and the game deals with the usual theme of religious nutjobs versus rational semi-fascist survivalists as well as usual tropes surrounding nazi ideology, experiments etc. PL is void of any gameplay besides walking forward down a linear path: besides collecting the occasional item, playing voice records and reading letters there is no interaction at all with the world you are in. In order for such a limited experience to be any good, the story, visuals and sound needs to compensate and in PL, they don't. The story is extremely predictable, the voice acting is bad and visually the game is unimpressive (although the graphic design is kinda good in certain places). The music is nice but can't compensate for everything else that PL is lacking. on top of all this, the game is buggy and required a handful of reboots during the few hours a playthrough demands. The game is made by a small indie studio and I can absolutely lower my expectations in many ways but leaving the game unpatched in the current state is where I draw the line.

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