Nocturnal Visitors: Book One (Demo) ★★★☆☆

Where can you buy?

• Available on Steam

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Explanation to Negative Feedback

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Good story-telling, but a lot of mistakes

I really like how the story is written, but I also can’t overlook all the mistakes that are littered throughout. Clearly the devs aren’t native English speakers, but I mean, I want to say they put effort into the story and tried.

But yeah, expect several mistakes sprinkled throughout.

No prompts for interaction

I mean, there comes a point at the start of the game that implies you have to look for a specific item, which means you’ll have to interact with objects in the environment.

Maybe it’s not so bad once you realize you can interact with things, but most people want to see what they can interact with.

I don’t know if the devs thought it would create less of a clutter to the screen, since there’s no pop-up prompt.

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Explanation to Positive Feedback

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Short chapters

Initially I was going to label this as a con, but upon playing up to a certain point, I think they are at an OK length. Keep in mind this is a demo, so we don’t know what the save systems are going to be like , whether they’re manual or auto.

For now there are no saves to the demo that I know of.

But if it’s going for an auto-save feature or a mix, the short chapters are nice for when you want to stop for a break.

Nostalgic art style

At least, it says it’s going for a 2000 era style of game, and I admit, it tickles a part of my brain that wants to remember this style, because I really like it, but I can’t for the life of me come up with a name of a game like these graphics.

I thought of Dragon Warrior VII, but I’m pretty sure that was all pixels, right? With the background sort of rendered differently.

Then I thought of Grandia 2, and I still don’t think that’s right.

So I gave up with my memory, but I love the style.

Play as different characters

While tons of games have proved that playing as one character the entire time can be a ton of fun, I feel like being able to play multiple characters is so much more interesting, because like every person, every character is unique. They’ve got their own personalities, skills, strengths and weaknesses, and all that.

As far as the demo goes, you can control a cook, investigator, and android, aside from your starting character.

Humorous

I don’t think the game is meant to be a comedy, because of the setup the game is going for, but some of the sound effects made me laugh, like the instrumental for Hall of the Mountain King playing out of nowhere.

And then there were pieces of dialogue that held humor, certain reactions, and all that.

Takes the edge off a tense situation.