This game is boring.

[Waltzing]

Did they even play their own "game"? The slow dialog just creates padding and you barely do anything.

[Woeful Wraith]

I wouldn't say boring, I'd say slow. It's really no different than previous games as far as the dialog and character bonding go, but it sorely lacks some eventual stuff. It's unfortunate too, because there are times where it sets itself up for a dramatic event and never delivers. Several times I was like "Oooh, what's gonna happen here? This could be bad." And nothing. Not even a fake out jumpscare or anything.


Things like in Life is Strange where Chloe gets her foot stuck in the railroad track. This game definitely needs more of something like that.

[Wasp]

Sadly slow AND repetitive - every scene in the past starts with the same thing. Go out and find item x. I liked parts of the story, but the gameplay required to unfold it is boring as hell. I can't even get up and give it a second try to see if other dialogue options do more than make a few small changes to the relationship between the girls. I hope there is a point where your choices affect the story.

[DanB]

Parts of it ARE boring, which is too bad. I'm also kind of sick of recording everything that happens. The good bits are good, though!

[Knight of Nyaa]

I say with more games like this China will own the video game market with the like of gacha games like Genshin making over $5 billion. I am even gave up on buying western games for China and South Korea.

[Stoibs]

Originally posted by Knight of Nyaa:

I say with more games like this China will own the video game market with the like of gacha games like Genshin making over $5 billion. I am even gave up on buying western games for China and South Korea.

Unless you're a shareholder, why does that matter from the perspective of us gamers?
You'd have to put a gun to my head to force me to play any of that Gacha booster pack gambling stuff over an adventure game like this.

A lot of the haters on this forum are taking this game waaaaaaaaay too personally and getting oddly emotional over its existence

[ra1n3b0w_]

some parts are def slow

[Aerooooooo]

Originally posted by Stoibs:

Originally posted by Knight of Nyaa:

I say with more games like this China will own the video game market with the like of gacha games like Genshin making over $5 billion. I am even gave up on buying western games for China and South Korea.

Unless you're a shareholder, why does that matter from the perspective of us gamers?
You'd have to put a gun to my head to force me to play any of that Gacha booster pack gambling stuff over an adventure game like this.

A lot of the haters on this forum are taking this game waaaaaaaaay too personally and getting oddly emotional over its existence

Because a lot of them don't really care about games. It's just like what Ebert said:

"Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills."

If they can feel they're on the "right side of history" by making silly claims like "I'm consooming THEIR product instead!" then they will feel content with their otherwise ho-hum lives. People feel this intense need these days to "own" people they will never meet rather than just living their best life, and it's sad, really.

[EntityofDesire]

YaI dunno, I've watched lots of game play as I've been on the fence about buying it (i really like the 90's setting and music) but it feels less like an adventure and more just a narrative day in the life of these characters. The problem is...their life is very mundane and so are their "challenges" which to be frank are pretty common, the problem this game as is feels honestly too "safe" and as poster said, its not very engaging, there is no thrill or need to do anything besides what (I've seen) are basically variations of fetch quests...

That said i havent watched ALL first tape as im still on fence and can't speak for the entire game, so maybe it gets better...but i dunno...so far it feels too much time spent on exposition, which has become a big problem lately in fiction too. Exposition is important but its meant to add to the story, not be the story.

[Archgod]

I played about 4 hours and yeah I can agree that it's boring. Nothing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ happens, it's just "remember X and C? Oh and remember how you and Y kissed and shared tampons!?". I had to use Unreal Engine Unlocker to increase the game speed since this snooze fest doesn't have a skip dialogue button. My pc was screaming for mercy but it was worth it. I'll probably go back to it in the future.

[MegaClaus]

Don't nod has run out of ideas. Glad to see this game flop so hard.

[Shiffo]

This game is crazy boring and it does not do a good job of pulling you in with the suspense

[Stoibs]

Originally posted by MegaClaus:

Don't nod has run out of ideas. Glad to see this game flop so hard.

93% 'Very Positive' is a flop nowdays?
Yikes.. you have a career in IGN online game reviewing with this sort of skewed scale

[Wakawaka]

Eh, it's not really for normal people. If you like all the agenda and DEI it is probably a very good game. They are just preaching to the choir.

[EntityofDesire]

Originally posted by Wakawaka:

Eh, it's not really for normal people. If you like all the agenda and DEI it is probably a very good game. They are just preaching to the choir.

I disagree, again I love adventure narrative games and loved the LiS series - this one has good setting, they've put a lot of love into it - but the story is too exposition heavy. To much focus on characters and not an engaging plot to put those characters in - and when you do have to do somerthing, it feels like fetch quests.

Its really a problem right now with a lot of "modern writing" that is leaning to much on exposition to drive a story and is often talked about on booktok, i feel this game suffers from the same issue but im waiting for tape 2 to make a final decision if buy it or not.

Personally I dont care about politics, etc as long as the game is engaging and tells a good story...so far the story just isn't doing much and feels oddly safe.

In a sense it reminds me of the LiS comics that felt all about personal drama, like reading therapy sessions rather than any outside "real" threat.

[Nitrous]

4 ugly girls talking about things that nobody cares... 10\10 I feel like this their last game.