Posted on: July 3, 2016
TravelDemon
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No Action Here...Or Anything Else Really
Cyberpunk bartender action is a bit of a misnomer. Specifically, there is no action to be found in this game whatsoever. The gameplay consist entirely of a sort of mini-game where you mix drinks. But even this can't really be called gameplay, as there's almost no way to make mistakes, and even if you somehow mess it up the game simply moves on. Yep, it kind of makes you wonder why they even bothered putting the drink making in here. BUT. As you may have realized, this is more of a visual novel than a game. Now I must confess that I am definitely not the target audience for VNs. In fact, this is probably the first one I've ever played. It is my understanding though that this particular example is even less interactive than your usual VN. You see, there are no decisions or dialogue trees or anything like that here. You just listen to Jill, the protagonist, talk to the patrons of the bar. That's it. That's the whole game. As an aside, the music and art are quite nice, and set the mood well. Since the game is entirely dialogue though, it must live or die on it's writing, and it dies an atrocious, putrid death. The writing is abysmal. I'm not asking for Hemingway here, but I need SOMETHING to work with. It reads like what it is: a work written by people who's concepts of writing are pulled from anime and video games(two mediums notorious for bad writing). For example, one of the bar's patrons is an assassin, and he just comes into the bar and talks about how he's an assassin... Stupid. Memes are employed in attempts at humor with predictably embarrassing results. Seemingly all the female characters are lesbiens(I was starting to wonder if Vallhalla(sic) was a gay bar). It reeked of some creepy male fulfillment fantasy. That idea is even given some merit with the cringe-worthy "sexual" dialogue that's forced through the entire game in an attempt to sound mature. And by the way characters randomly get overly emotional over small things, you'd think they all have BPD.
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