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Where can you buy?

• Available on Steam

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Explanation to Negative Feedback

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Choice title text hard to read

Whenever you’re on a screen that gives you a choice to make, it has a statement at the top of the screen that’s just in white text and, well, white text is terrible to read on a light background, and in a lot of instances–almost all in fact, it’s pretty difficult to read what the text states.

You get the gist of what you need to do by looking at the choices, but…if you’re going to have text on the screen, at least make it so people can read it.

AI images have gone rogue

I mean, they went crazy.

It’ll go from good looking characters to characters that look like they’ve been painted on the screen with a mop. I don’t know anything about AI generators, but the inconsistency just seems super weird to me. Did the devs go to different generators to gather all these images or what?

Clearly I play games with AI in them, but if you’re going to use it…at least maintain a visual style to the characters…and maybe make sure the characters remain similar.

Poorly explained mini-games

I thought it was supposed to be a brick-breaker type of game, and in a way it kind of is, but not in the normal sense of the game.

Basically, you’ve got a limited amount of moves and three colors of orbs to use that represent the characteristics of levels at the top of your screen. Each orb does something a little different as stated in the directions, and you just want to detach the bulk of the journal in front of you from the edges, and then attack the character icon.

It’s…stupid, to be honest.

I’m not sure why it was even implemented.

No actual settings

Yeah, you go into settings and it’s just the chapters you can choose. No sound control or full screen or turning voice acting on or off. I don’t know why there’s even a settings button, because it’s a bold faced lie.

Emma doesn’t actually hate dogs

Emma, you don’t just get over your hatred/fear of dogs after meeting one nice one.

Once she meets that dog, there’s another instance of her asking about it, saying she’s named it and everything. Like, it was just yesterday you didn’t want it to bite you and now you think dogs are man’s best friend.

Random animated scenes

Toward the last portion of the game, some of the scenes were suddenly animated, although in a short brief way, and I’m going to say there was maybe four scenes in total that actually had some kind of animation to them. It was really weird and jarring, because every other scene was just a still image.

It’s like they did it as an after-thought, and then were like, maybe we won’t.

I think they should’ve just not.

Chapter 2 is a paid DLC

It’s not even available. It’s just there within the game for you to click on, and then it’ll take you to Steam’s front page.

Tyler Clementi link places a game into your cart

There’s something about a portion of proceeds go to Tyler Clementi, and when you click the link it takes you to a Steam game that isn’t even translated into English and places it into your cart.

Please never do this.

Ever.

Some voiced lines not done correctly

There weren’t too many instances of this problem. I think two off the top of my head, which isn’t a huge deal, but it’s something that I noticed.

One time the speaker spoke narration lines instead of their actual speech, and then another time the character’s lines weren’t fully spoken.

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Explanation to Positive Feedback

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Voice acting

I’m…a bit leery on suspecting the voice acting to be AI generated, because sometimes it feels like it, but I don’t want to call actual people out if there are actual people behind the characters doing the talking? I know people are going to find it insulting to be told they sound like an AI voice, but sometimes it’s just hard to tell.

The store page doesn’t mention anything about the voices, so perhaps not, and in the end, I’m going to say the voice acting is a plus anyway as you can just listen to them talk instead of reading all the lines, in case the text is too small for you.

Game plays in portrait mode

It’s a pro because it’s unique.

I personally don’t have a problem with playing the game like this, but I know there might be some compatibility issues for other people, such as the font being too small to read, or the screen they’re playing the game on not being large enough to benefit them playing.

Not that you’ll probably want to play it after going through the list of cons.

Auto dialogue feature

I never turned the auto mode on for continuation of the dialogue, so I don’t know if it progresses at a decent pace, or if it goes too fast or anything like that.

But if you’re lazy and don’t like to constantly click to progress, since you’re not doing any kind of commentating, then it’s there for your lazy finger to hang back and chill.