An Abyss of Dreams, proving religious orphanages are the worst.
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Where can you buy?
- Available on Steam
Pros:
- Click to move
Cons:
- No objective
- Sometimes text wouldn’t continue
Explanation to Negative Feedback
No objective
Truthfully, I’m not even sure if objectives could’ve helped me out with the situation I was in, but it would still be nice to have them just to have everything in order for what you need to do. Even if the objectives are in the menu section of the game instead of blatantly on the screen.
But as you might’ve guessed, I wasn’t able to finish the game due to not understanding what I needed to do next.
Sure, there were things that needed done, like opening a chest, and speaking to a boy in a cage, however in order to open the chest, it had something to do with the boy. And I couldn’t talk to the boy, because a Sister was in the same room, so I probably needed to get her to leave.
This was where I had no idea on how to go about that.
I wandered everywhere and found nothing worth looking into.
Perhaps objectives would’ve helped with this. Or maybe a hint in the right direction from the boy or any other character I could’ve come across, but it just didn’t happen, and I didn’t get through the demo.
Sometimes text wouldn’t continue
I don’t know why, unless it’s because I wasn’t clicking in the middle of the text box itself, because for some reason, there’s something about certain visual novels, which I wouldn’t use as a label for this game, but they want you to click inside the box in order to progress the text, instead of clicking anywhere to continue the novel, and it’s infuriating.
I move my mouse a lot, so it’s never going to stay in one place, even when there’s nothing to interact with on the screen, so making us click on top of the text just to move on to the next portion is dumb.
We’ve read the text.
Let us click anywhere to continue, otherwise we’re going to spam click, wondering why nothing is happening, and thinking the game is broken.
Explanation to Positive Feedback
Click to move
It was hard to find another pro, all right? But what I mean by adding a pro like click to move in this kind of game is that it sort of adds a sense of dread on what you’re going to come up against around the corner, in a room you’re about to enter, or just up ahead in general.
If you’re unsure about what I’m talking about, it’s the same movement as the game At Dead of Night, but not nearly as creepy when it comes to the movement.
You’ve already got a place that’s unsettling due to the sister’s having either such strict rules or just a rule from the kids in avoiding certain ones, so knowing you’re not in third or first person wandering around at your own pace means you don’t really know what you’re up against.
Then again, maybe it’s not as creepy as I’m letting on.
