Pathologic Classic HD

so it really deserves to be bought. Especially if you like Planescape: Torment, visual novels and Russian classic literature like Dostoevsky. I'm saying it like inhabitant of this country and I'm really proud for my people that they created this masterpiece. Dybowski is a really good writer, that's for sure. I recommend to play first as Bachelor, then Haruspex and Changeling at last. Tell you the truth, I really like all playable characters for some reasons but for me Changeling is the best. And the best for last, in a manner of speaking. Unfortunately, it was bad translated at first time due to hardness of Russian language (especially, this type of texts and dialogues) but the developers and volunteers fixed it. Changeling has more sense than Devotress, e.g., etc. I hope the volunteers will translate it on Japanese so Katan from ADVGAMER that he could play it without the language barrier and recommend Pestilence (Russian title) to others from his land.

Absolutely recommended, IF you know what you're getting into. In terms of narrative, Pathologic is easily one of the most ambitious games out there, not just in the multi-layered way the story is structured but also its ideas (I suggest you don't look these up any further if you're planning to play it -- it's best to go into it blind). There are very few other games like this out there, and most of them by this same studio. However, the rest of the game doesn't live up to the same standard. You could argue that the game is bad at communicating things to you, but I'd say it uses a more realistic/natural way of communication than UI prompts or blatant quest text. A more objective complaint is the graphics, which are bad by modern standards, if you care about that sort of thing, and the gameplay, in spite of all the original ideas it tries to execute, is a bit broken -- but it's not too bad, definitely not as bad as most people/media like to paint it. Ironically, it still manages to be one of the best examples of gameplay-story integration, in my opinion. But if you don't mind an old-looking, somewhat clunky, very text-heavy game, and especially if you play games for their story, Pathologic is unique. P.S. If you're doing multiple playthroughs, save Changeling for last.

Pathologic is not a fun game; rather, it's the gaming equivalent of living on the streets in Venezuela. It is also one of the most important games in the world. The shining star of a genre of a games that can only be defined as "Russian", Pathologic is a place where the end of the world is not explosions and excitement. Rather, it is a boring trudge in isolation as you give up every inch of moral fibre out of convenience. At the end of it, you don't even consider it ironic to be pondering high-level philosophy whilst literally scamming kids for medicine. If you can endure it, Pathologic absolutely gives you an unparalleled insight into how societal collapse shape people. For the absolutely best experience, start playing the game as your typical doe-eyed RPG character and try to maintain that level of morality for as long as possible.

Pathologic is a game about games, and a game about theater - about /playing a role/ in both senses of that word - which asks you, the player, to embody one of three key parts in the grim play Ice-Pick Lodge has created for you, represented by three different healers with three different philosophical approaches to life and medicine in stopping a plague in a small town in the great grass steppe of Eurasia. Each player character has a wholly different part to play than the other two, with non-player characters of different classes and social strata reacting differently to each protagonist. The many and sundry characters of the town are so memorable I think I'll never forget some of them, as each has a distinctive voice and personality and philosophy which comes through rather brilliantly in the excellent new translation presented by this "Classic HD" version. Pathologic is often called a horror game, although I think it is most accurately described as an adventure - there is a truckload of dialogue, and walking around town and talking to people are the core mechanics - with a first-person perspective and survival mechanics, wherein everything is stacked against you, and any upper-hand you might transiently have can be quickly worn away on a bad in-game day. NPCs will lie, manipulate, and conceal information; prices for vital supplies will spike; and the town will consistently become ever more dangerous to traverse day by day until you find yourself desperately running through an orchestrated simulation of chaos in its latter third. It is forbidding, difficult, and even oppressive, yet unimaginably rich and rewarding, thoughtful in a way that video games rarely ever are, if you can get used to its scrappy combat and occasionally poor quest design.