Reviews

I'm not a fan of multiplayer FPS in general, but I've had fun playing single-player FPS's earlier so I thought this FTP multiplayer FPS would be a good place to start to expand my horizon.  I was surprised to find myself in the minority in that I not only didn't get addicted to this game but found it boring enough that I uninstalled after a few hours of play.

I appreciate that it's probably just disinterest in the genre rather than any issue with the game itself that is driving that, but I found most of the game modes to be relatively interchangeable.  Reading up on online strategy, it seems like there's a bit of player psychology to work out but most of the rest of the skill-building that takes place is just improving the same set of skill mechanics over a large number of games.  Again, I get that this is just an aesthetic thing on my end, but there doesn't seem to be as much variety in gameplay as there is in the battle royale genre, the open-world survival games, or in some of the class-based battle or shooting games.  There's no world-building, storyline, and even the aesthetics of the battle areas don't really have anything to do with gameplay.  The music is completely forgettable, and the graphics are fine but no longer anything unprecedented for a multiplayer game of this scope.

It's free-to-play so I wouldn't have any objections to someone trying it, but overall I had trouble getting a sense of what the fuss was about.  (That has not been true for me historically for Valve F2P multiplayer games, since I ended up putting like 100 hours into Dota my first month of playing).  That said, I really did not get the appeal at all, so I can't say that I recommend it.

I feel really bad for giving this one a bad review, because the aesthetic is so gorgeous and the concept is so compelling, but this game is poorly executed. The art, voice acting and soundtrack are well done, however the game-part-of-the-game really holds it back. I love visual novels, especially ones like this, and it has a good enough story. However, you have to wait a long time to get these story nuggets, and I'm not sure if they're worth it. Most of the time you are traversing the map as a very slow-walking skeleton, paying a poker debt to Dire Wolf. This model moves infuriatingly slow, and I wonder if it's like that in order to pad out game time. The map is also very buggy and laggy, and I couldn't quite work out how to use the whistling mechanic, and, while hitchhiking, no one ever picked me up. You get to explore all of America from the very beginning, which is great, but the catch is that the map is mostly empty, leading to a lot of repetition. The stories system - the real meat of the game - can be very confusing at times, and it's dubious what category (thrilling, tragic, scary, etc.) a lot of stories fall under. Sometimes a wrong choice set me backtracking for 15+ minutes. Also, if you're a completionist, don't bother with this one - it's impossible to 100%. The developer is the only one who legitimately has the final achievement, and yes, it's intentional. Not cool. Overall I just wish this game should've stuck to being a visual novel or walking simulator, not a boring hybrid. Sorry, but I just couldn't bring myself to finish this one.