Recent reviews by Gatekeeper

Game is hard to navigate, choices go away to quickly and don't seem to matter much. Story got dark later on with no real trust it has a meaningful ending. Uninstalled before I made it to the end. art and sound design were nice.

Just finished episode one and Loved it.

The good:
The game uses a mix of "user action" and "Story" that I haven't seen before was definitely enjoyable. It's nice that they always made doing the right thing an option. +1 for letting the user be an actual hero. Looking forward to the rest of the story. I'll also be playing through the first segment a few times to try and catch the things I missed.
I found the music relaxing and fun and the intro credit scene was good and cinematic. ;)

The Bad:
One annoying thing was that during some of the quick time events, you have to quickly switch between using the arrow keys to using the mouse. This made it nearly impossible to get things right on the first try unless you could predict which one you might need and preemptively swap before the cue.

I also had a little trouble selecting some options in the environment, it almost seemed like I needed to hit T (to show all current selection options) to rest the list before I could click on the one I wanted. I had the most trouble with this making selections of The levers in the timple of order of the stone. Definitely nothing game breaking, though.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm just going to let the menu music play while I do some school work. Err...The music only plays when the window is active. I guess that makes sense. We need a soundtrack ;)

This game is fun at first but then starts to get progressively stranger as it continues. There really isn't any point in finish after you find that some characters who appear to be good are actually so grossly evil that it would only be something you would expect to see in some horror story. Evil is the darkest when it appears to be a light. And evil is currently not a game.

Great feel, fantastic music, decently fun mechanics. The ending is not satisfying though.


Super spoiler to follow After decoding the letter blocks you can read all the notes and It turns out to be an environmental domes day story we're people kill the world by producing energy from oil. Then after realizing your nothing more than an ugly zombie-ish shell of a man you die and then you and your drawing fly up into the sky...

For some reason or another I seem to be able to play this game in just the right way so that it's annoying instead of fun.

Fighting:
The Fighting mechanics seems inconsistent; "hit <button> to counter"...I hit the button...no counter move...

Function:
The game mechanics seem inconsistent; The door opens, a hoard of thugs try and attack me, I gain space by going back through the door. end up losing the fight so I try again. this time the door doesn't open again so I have to change tactics. Sure the door was probably supposed to lock behind me the first time but this like this have happened more than once and it's annoying to keep changing my tactics.

Fear:
To be honest the "insert random fear gas mini-game to mix up gameplay" seems sloppy, sure it's not actually scary, but it is disturbing and it currently isn't fun. I shouldn't have to push through randomly inserted dislikable gameplay to get back to the main story.

Conclusion:
I know a lot of people like this game, but like I said at the start, it's just annoying to me.

Unless they change something with the next two chapters, this game isn't worth buying. I ran all the way through the first and second chapter and almost finished the third, I stopped when they wanted me to incriminate a random guard with something he didn't do...(that's not cool.) The gameplay and tactics were alright (as is seen by the 15 hours I spend in game.) That said. You can't ask me to become an unjust, lying man in order to finish the chapter. It is lies and injustice that build her prison in the first place. If you use the same evil to achieve a different end, then there is no true hero and no real point in playing. (BTW after googling the ending, all I can say is, I'm glad I didn't finish.)

This is a great game. The color, sound, music and tone of the entire game are very well done. The story is also very good apart from a few minor inconsistencies. Definitely well worth the money.

Great job devs. :)