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Full Review with screenshots you can read here: Dreams of Genesis Gaming: The Contiguous Islands [doggamingsite.wordpress.com] Contiguous Islands is an adventure visual novel about the life of pirates, which the developers christened Graphic novel. Well guys, let's face it-this is a novella with a choice to advance further on the storyline. Although the developers of BAD team have made quite an interesting story.
Who Do you immediately imagine when pronouncing the word "Pirate"? To Me, for some reason, immediately appears Jack Sparrow. Sorry, CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow. So glorified was the character actor Johnny Depp, that almost all pirate games and cartoons are already trying to parody, well, or bring a tickle with the most glorious saga of pirates. This fate and the Contiguous Islands Did not. The Characters, their characters and behavior are different from the Kinovseli Caribbean Sea, but the action begins with Tortuga, glorified refuge of all pirates. Although as I went through I tried to drive away from myself the idea of the similarities of the film, which became famous for the genius game Depp. But here I discovered a rather terrible secret. Guys, the game is very similar to the Soviet cartoon-Treasure Island. There are great similarities in the character of some characters, although the plots in the region differ, but there is a heck of similarities with the creation of Soviet multipliers. I kept waiting for a voiceover to appear, which will describe my character on the manners of the famous cartoon, but it never happened.
The GAMEPLAY Since I have been doing reviews on other visual novels, then with confidence I can say that nothing new in terms of the Gaympei Contiguous Islands to offer you will not be able. And do you need to invent a bicycle? In Visual novels, the plot and the visual component have always been highly valued. The Story in the game is quite standard, but it's just the first episode. And As you can judge, the will of the plot will throw us on the other islands to... To... Yes, the Devil knows why, but I hope the developers will work well on the plot of the other parts, because the first episode gave only a cost to him. And so the game is quite standard in the gameplay part: Read an interesting story and make a certain choice in this or that situation. And, as usual, it happens in the novels, the wrong choice can lead, and will necessarily lead you to death. You know in this game I wanted to open all the endings, because their variety and staging just shake. I Want to pay tribute to both the designer and the stage director (it is quite possible that it is the same person). Possible deaths are very diverse and sometimes even cruel.
GRAPHICS And SOUNDS The Graphic component of this novel is simply chic. Moments of the game simply amazes with detail of drawing both characters, and environment, and still added such rare function in novella as Dynamic environment. When It rains, it is not shown by static droplets on the monitor, the rain really falls from the sky. The Bonfire looks as if it really burns, not just a static picture of fire, but really a "living" flame, which so warms our main characters. Although Sometimes the graphics changed from excellent to very soapy, and in such moments I even became funny. Because of these reasons I will not say that the graphical component of the game is made perfectly, but the level Of drawing is really very impressive. Sound and music theme is very well complements both the graphical component and atmospheric in general. All the sounds are calculated very accurately and none of them did not annoy me with their delay or delay.
PROS And CONS Pros: + Interesting, albeit fairly standard storyline + Charismatic characters + Extensive plot development opportunities + Diversity of the end of history (coloricity of deaths) + Atmosphere of piracy + Colorful graphic component + The Soundtrack successfully emphasizes the graphics and atmosphere Cons:-Clique villain-Old-fashioned vision of deaths (sharks do not attack people just like that)-Small duration of the first chapter of the Contiguous Islands-quite good and interesting Visual novella (graphic novel), with a rather promising storyline. Definitely recommend to fans of Novelle and pirates. Rated 9 out of 10.
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