Posted on: July 25, 2017
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Disappointing
I'm an adventure game fan and wanted to like this game a lot. The screenshots are nice and the story starts out intriguing and it has a momentum for a short while but then it quickly collapses. The good: visually, the game is nice, although inconsistent. Animation is mostly smooth and well done, for a pixel art game. Whoever did the visuals obviously cared. The mediocre and the bad: while the music sounds nice, it's very out-of-place and doesn't fit the game's mood at all. It quickly becomes unwanted distraction. Many of the visuals (while technically good-looking) are confusing. (17th-century flint guns and uniforms? Early 20th century cars all over in a world after the internet era?) Although backgrounds are nice, there are many locations in the game that are barely more than filler with some hotspots but nothing really interactive - they only serve to drag out the game. Most of the above issues could be overlooked, but - unfortunately - there is the story. It feels like it was heavily inspired by Hunger Games - lonely archer girl fighting the evil government (who all wear funny clothes). There's also a conspiracy. Unfortunatly, Shardlight's story is so bad that I have a hard time describing it. It starts interesting but quickly morphes into a confusing, plot-hole ridden, pointless mess. There are many characters but most are 1-dimensional cardboard cutouts that are only in place to spout naive nonsense about tyranny and government (the children are well done though). As the story progresses, more and more absurd story elements pop up. (Flying doctor? Really?). By the end plot holes would dwarf galaxies. There are several facepalm moments. Puzzles are mostly simplistic and repetitive: go to A, pick up B then talk to C. Then shoot a button with the crossbow. Rinse and repeat. This game had some potential but the poor writing destroyed it all. The only reason I gave 2 stars is the graphics but this game - even at $2.99 - is a massive ripoff.
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