Orion: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel

3 hours playtime

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Looks like I finally played (and completed) a visual novel :) Douglas gave this to me (out of nowhere, thanks once more :) and I remember he said this was his favorite VN. Since this was my first, I can’t really compare it to others, and I’m really not sure what was just “the usual genre stuff” and what was specific to this one. Hum. I’ll just try to guess a bit :)

So … let’s start with the easy stuff: The art in the game was nice. I can’t really say much else about this – I liked it. There was voice acting for all of the dialogues, and I was surprised how good it was. When there are undertitles in games, I tend to skip through because I’m not always patient enough to wait 30 seconds to hear what I read in 3 – but for this game I hardly did that. There is no voice acting for inner monologue and narration though – but I don’t see that as a bad thing, I probably wouldn’t have had the patience for that.

I don’t think I can say much about the story without spoiling anything. Well I can say I liked it. The story arcs had completely different themes, I didn’t really expect that. I had thought this would be more about “branch off but return to the general topic later”, but it really wasn’t. Ummm … I also liked how some “meta aspects” were integrated/explaind in the story, but I really can’t say what I’m talking about, sorry :P I’m a little curious whether that’s a usual thing in VNs, but I guess I’ll just find out when I play another VN some time :)