极乐迪斯科

First the game didn't notice I've finished shoe quest so every time I load a save it gave me complete dialogue about that quest... then my save got broke and all I see is darkness. Not to mention I can't even die without some bullshit dialogue, it's funny for the first time, but not fifth... Also maps arevery confusing, you can't see clearly which floor is higher or lower, this game is far from good.

I'm not going to tell you how good this game is. There are plenty of other reviews out there. I'll just say that it felt like a new Planescape Torment. But the reason a give it one star and do not reccomend it is because you can get easily stuck in the game without any options to progress further. Getting into Feld electrictrical has been broken for months and no one tried to fix it. In order to enter the building and find a character to progress the main quest you must pass 3 checks. Infamous Shivers check (which is quite easy and can be modified by a lot of quests). And one of the two checks further - Savoir Faire or physical instrument. I failed them both. I have no skill points to reset the checks. I have no side quests to get those skill points. The only option that is left is to try to find some old save. Disappointed.

Stale RPGs are a dime a dozen these days. While this game attempts to be different, it seems to be too heavily reliant on dialogue and uses a scenic world as a crutch.

First of all, it's true what they say: this choose-your-own-adventure-book is masquerading as a game. That being said - I actually *like* a good choose-your-own-adventure-book. Planescape Torment and to some extent Arcanum and the original Fallouts come to mind. So why is this one very very very bad? :-) Someone without a post-sovjet + historical + literary background would have no way knowing what this game actually is. This is, unashamedly, a cannibalistic and chauvinistic pamphlet, masquerading as a late-sovjet sci-fi book mixed with Colombian magic realism of the 60s. The message? Mother Graad'sha is the greatest, brutally awesome (think Pladymyr Vutin - on a horse) [ahaha game - see! I can has artsy "fake" names too!!!] mono-ethnic civilization, its neighbors are all techno-fascist, or not-real and the duopoli of the Moralintern are invaders and colonizers (I'm not even going to bother looking up the "artsy" pseudo-Slavic and/or pseudo-Spanish names the author got from randomnamegenerator,com for the EU and the US) This all is structured in a frighteningly professional way and does a terrifyingly good job distracting from it's agenda and targeting multiple audiences simultaneously. It's brilliant this way: it adjusts the SAME message to different audiences without tipping-off the others. How do I even know, if this is so brilliantly done? A blunt reference to the two Ichkerian wars, described (of course) from the official Kremlin perspective tipped me off: it was so pointlessly full of very personal hatred it shattered the illusion, so I started going back and re-reading dialog options. I don't even know what to do with this. As I said.. a very specific background.. and luck.. Thank god not many people will play this.