85 people found this review helpful
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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.3 hrs on record
Posted: Nov 8, 2015 @ 2:03am

There's not a whole lot to this. It's not a game, it's not even a simulator -- it's more like an interactive art project someone made for SVA and then figured they could sell on Steam. The music is beautiful, haunting even, and I'd absolutely be willing to pay for the soundtrack, but that's about the only worthwhile part. It doesn't feel like the makers have ever been to a real graveyard, especially not one as old as Boon Hill is supposed to be. Graveyards that old aren't as empty as this game's setting, for one thing; 90% of the "graveyard" is empty space with a smattering of tombstones in small family clusters, even though it's supposed to date back to the 1700s at least. And we're not talking "ruins" or "stubs that are old, broken tombstones, now illegible" -- it's just EMPTY. Lots of grass, maybe a tree, but that's it. Also, it feels like they never finished this "game", since many of the gravestones can't be read -- and I'm certain that's not intentional because they AREN'T blank, they're simply not things with which you can interact in the "game." Clicking on them does nothing. Most tombstones have writing that can be read, some are blank when you click on them, but this third group? Just...not there, as far as the program is concerned. That serves no narrative purpose, there's no explanation for it, and it really just ruins the immersion. Sort of like that Spanish tombstone with the name of "Inygo Montoya" on it. Har har. Also, the Spanish tombstones? Yeah, they're pretty clearly just English things someone ran through Google translate and then incorrectly typed out. I wouldn't make fun of "stupid Americans [who] can't read [Spanish tombstones]" (that's the translation for one of them) when you can't even manage basic Spanish spelling, grammar and vocabulary. "Mayora" =/= "Mayoria." I assume the same would be the case for the ones in Cyrillic script. I'm not really sure why they felt this needed to be Kickstarted, but good on them for being entrepreneurs, I suppose.
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14 Hours Productions  [developer] Jun 22, 2017 @ 5:50pm 
While I can say that that I'm sad you didn't like the game and I'm also sad that this is by FAR the most looked at review I am happy you gave such well thought out reasons for what you liked and didn't like.

A few other people have complained about the Spanish grave stones. They were written by a native speaker (which doesn't excuse them if they're bad). Same with the Russian and the Japanese and Chinese ones. The Asian gravestones sadly have a bug that keeps popping up and keeping them from displaying at all! So, they're blank by accident.

As for the gravestones that you can't interact with, I'd love it if you could let me know which ones those are. All the graves should be interactable at the very least. If they're not, well, that's just terrible and indeed my bad.

The Inygo Montoya grave like most joke graves were a backer reward. I think it's cute!

Thanks for your thoughts and thanks for wording them so eloquently.