Posted on: December 14, 2017
decadentgray
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Just ...wow!
To get it out of the way, this a visual novel. I'm referring it as such, since this isn't really a game in the scope of interactivity. Just now that this game gives you exactly what it promises, namely 'bartending action'. Your interaction in this novel is more or less limited to serving drinks. You are in no rush, there is no time limit or such, so it plays rather laid-back, and that's absolutely fine. You can influence the story through your bartending performance, though, by messing up the drinks, or going the extra mile to please your customers. After a while you get to know and develop a feeling for them, so going the extra mile sometimes means overriding their order to serve them something you know they _really_ need now, which isn't always what they are asking for. The graphics are lovely and quite pleasing to look at, only the font rendering seems off in places (but that's only minuscule, and might be only me [I'm a graphics artist myself]). About the music, it is the right kind of MIDI-synth stuff, ranging from laid back lounge/elevator music over 80s synth to slightly jazzy sounding pieces. A big plus is the 'jukebox'-feature, which allows you to pick the soundtrack as you please. The story in itself is engaging, and one starts to care about the characters quite a bit. The multiple ending feature is absolutely clever, since these add together, so you have not ending X or ending Y, but ending X+Y and so on. It fits and doesn't leave you with unfulfilled promises or open questions (depending on how much you unlock of course). For the feeling, well, if you are into 80s to 90s cyberpunk, especially of the Japanese kind (Bubblegum Crisis, Silent Moebius, Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner...), you'll feel right at home. Bonus points if you ever served drinks for a living yourself, I guess. All in all VA-11 Hall-A is really enjoyable, just don't mistake it for something it doesn't want to be, namely a 'game' instead of a 'interactive novel'.
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