Acquisitions
- The Sexy Brutale
- Purrfect Date
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Belladonna
3.6 hours playtime
0 of 0 achievements
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The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
11 hours playtime
36 of 36 achievements
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A Raven Monologue
14 minutes playtime
0 of 0 achievements
Belladonna
Just a short game I played because I saw it qualifies for the monthly theme (winter). It's so short, in fact, that half my play time is idling for cards. The puzzles are pretty easy. It's nice to play a point and click without obscure achievements to worry about sometimes. Diary pages you find just sitting around on the floor tell you the story for the first half of the game, and the story told in the diaries is actually pretty good.
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
Play or Pay game for this month and SG win. A former Challenge Me! failure, too. An interesting Daedalic game in the context of their other games. This one is a little more serious. The main character is a bird catcher in a dingy medieval-ish town. A dark prophecy surrounds him and he is seen as bad luck. The story in a way is a twist on the idea of a doomed fate we saw in the Whispered World. The gameplay gimmick is that one character can break things, and the other can repair them. Of course, knowing when to use those abilities to make some unforeseeable thing happen is another matter. But I forgive it.
A Raven Monologue
Counts for the monthly theme (2018 game). I saw this and another free game that sounded interesting in the BLAEO game awards voting form, so I decided to play them. I haven't played other games from this year, so now I can at least vote in one category.
Anyway...I wasn't so pleased with this. From what I can tell, it requires reading the store description to know the premise of the game. Even then, I struggle to find a solid connection between that description and what the Raven was doing. Of course, it isn't really a game, though there is one part that takes advantage of being a game in a rather significant way. It was also the only part I kind of understood.
Aww, I’m sorry you didn’t like A Raven Monologue. :o
Idk if it’s my personal experience that made me feel a lot about the story, but the crow imagining having real connection with people or imagining people alongside him when walking really hit me since I also did that. Got teary eyed and almost cried. That’s why I nominated it in the game awards. The music is also extremely good and accompanies the story well.
There’s another free game that I played at the same time as A Raven Monologue that you might be interested in: http://store.steampowered.com/app/744800
It’s basically as short as A Raven Monologue so no harm in trying am I right? :3
Was he imagining them? I guess that wasn’t even clear to me. He went out to learn how to speak with people, imagined all these great conversations during which he was given gifts, and then on his way home he had to recognize that he never saw anyone and had to go home having not succeeded? Is that it? That’s better and even a decent and thought-provoking story, but I wish the premise of learning to croak were somehow evident within the game itself.
Thanks for the recommendation on the other game. I like the art. I’ll try it next month (I think I’ve padded my numbers for this month enough as it is…).
I don’t think him not being able to croak even ties into the story? Basically on his way to the swing, he imagined all the way that people met him and give him gifts, but when he reached the destination he realized that it’s all in his imagination, so he went back getting sadder and sadder. It’s very much like any imagination(at least for me). You get “high” with all sorts of good emotions when imagining, but when you came back to real life it’s like a balloon that’s been popped, you just feel more and more depressed knowing that it’s all fake and you had to resort to imagining things to make you feel better.
Yea I didn’t get A Raven Monologue either. I frantically went back and forth expecting something else to happen thinking I did something wrong.
I really loved the music though!
I enjoyed Belladonna and really enjoyed Chains of Satinav. I still need to make time to play Memoria, though!