It changed name ?

[Hagger]

Why ?

[Steele]

backbone twitter page is also gone ???!!!! wtf??? I bet there's some lawsuit ♥♥♥♥ going on

[Mr_v_der_Muehle]

There is a backbone controller für phones and a tales noir phonegame. Just came here because I saw a (not so anymore) familiar game is on sale.

[RaZman]

Searching for Backbone leads to the Kickstarter campaign and all the lies and empty promises it contains.

[Freya]

Originally posted by RaZman:

Searching for Backbone leads to the Kickstarter campaign and all the lies and empty promises it contains.

What lies and empty promises exactly?

[RaZman]

Originally posted by Vanilla:

Originally posted by RaZman:

Searching for Backbone leads to the Kickstarter campaign and all the lies and empty promises it contains.

What lies and empty promises exactly?

Let's go through the Kickstarter page:

"As private investigator Howard Lotor, you are set to solve detective cases, interrogate witnesses, explore the intriguing and dangerous world around you, and sneak your way to safety using smell-based stealth mechanics. "

- No interrogations
- No exploration
- No detective cases
- No stealth (outside of literally one building in the prologue/demo)

"Stretch Goals - Voiceover achieved"

- No voiceover was delivered.


"Challenging, thought-provoking storyline"

- Thought-provoking? Subjective. Challenging? Absolutely not, it's just "click through dialogue to continue".


Gameplay:
"Detective work. Collect evidence, interrogate witnesses, connect the dots and follow leads on your own. No hand-holding"

- Not included in the game. Instead it's a strictly linear story with zero evidence collection, zero detective work and zero interrogations.

"Stealth & Action. In the animal world, smell is the most powerful sense. Hide in multi-level environments, mask your scent in garbage bins, follow suspects and escape the chase."

- Depicted with a chase-scene on the rooftops on the Kickstarter page. Quite literally not included in the game in any way shape or form.

"Special abilities. The Artifact is a unique ancient technology with unknown origins and purpose. If you learn how to use it, it might change the regular order or destroy it."

- The story wraps up and the game ends before any of this happens. You don't get to "use" the "Artifact" at all in terms of gameplay the way they describe it and show through in-game footage on the page.

[Freya]

That's odd. I have only played the Prelude story (not the full game). And for what I saw in that demo, a lot of the things you described are in there.

Are you really telling me the full game is nothing like the demo? Because I would find that VERY hard to believe.

[Maky]

Originally posted by Vanilla:

That's odd. I have only played the Prelude story (not the full game). And for what I saw in that demo, a lot of the things you described are in there.

Are you really telling me the full game is nothing like the demo? Because I would find that VERY hard to believe.

The demo is basically the best part of the game. I'm not even joking. The ending disappointed me so hard

[SirJackal]

Originally posted by Vanilla:

That's odd. I have only played the Prelude story (not the full game). And for what I saw in that demo, a lot of the things you described are in there.

Are you really telling me the full game is nothing like the demo? Because I would find that VERY hard to believe.

pretty much it becomes Go to A n speak to B game. rise n repeat. that ending tho

[Freya]

Does the prelude/demo of the game at least plays in the full game? I just bought it recently because of it ;w;

[King Ballsmear]

Originally posted by Vanilla:

Does the prelude/demo of the game at least plays in the full game? I just bought it recently because of it ;w;

lmao, one of the biggest gripes with this game is that the actual game is nothing like the demo.

[Endoran]

Originally posted by D--ᗡ:

Maybe re-branding because of the backlash it received initially idk

And given how nothing else has changed about the game, it feels weird.
It's definitely a worse title too. 'Backbone' had some actual noirness to it, Tails Noir just sounds like they're just hoping it gets picked up on the furry algorithm.

[Era_Outworlder]

This is one of those "i got it super cheap based on the title and image" games in my library that I haven't actually played. so confused when I saw it in my update queue with the new title in text and the old title in the image.

[SnakeShifter]

How bizarre.

[always.sleepy]

the fact that it won't even redirect you to Backbone is stupid.
way to shoot yourself in the foot.

[Killuansmoon]

backbone was the perfect name for the lore, I'm sad