The design is a bit quirky and unique with menu text looking more like the action scenes in a comic, than a traditional game or app menu. There also seems to be a potentially interesting story here, centred on a weird kind of alternate version of the world exists. Characters are creepy and people are keeping secrets, even those that seem to be victims of whatever conspiracy is going on.
The combat seems as if it could be quite interesting, if there was more of it. It's turn-based, with many of the traditional options: attack, defend, use abilities/magic, and use items. But there are a few twists to it.
Unfortunately, you don't really get to play much. It's practically just a comic book, except that instead of having to turn a page of 12-16 panels of story, you have to click a button for every single line/speech bubble. Occasionally you get to control the character in between, but it's usually just to run up or downstairs, only to start the next conversation.
In the approx 10-12 hours I've played, I'd guess about 15% has been gameplay, and 85% has been reading a story.
To make matters worse, the exploration side of the gameplay is very linear. You might be in a kind of 'dungeon' and it seems like you get to explore. But actually, most of the clickable items are repetitive (eg. There could be 10 locked doors you can click, but all give the same message). And it's just one room into the next, in predetermined sequence.
Maybe it leads into more gameplay and opens up to more exploration later, but 10-12 hours of clicking a button to read the next line in a speech-bubble based story makes it not worth finding out. Better off buying a book.
The combat seems as if it could be quite interesting, if there was more of it. It's turn-based, with many of the traditional options: attack, defend, use abilities/magic, and use items. But there are a few twists to it.
Unfortunately, you don't really get to play much. It's practically just a comic book, except that instead of having to turn a page of 12-16 panels of story, you have to click a button for every single line/speech bubble. Occasionally you get to control the character in between, but it's usually just to run up or downstairs, only to start the next conversation.
In the approx 10-12 hours I've played, I'd guess about 15% has been gameplay, and 85% has been reading a story.
To make matters worse, the exploration side of the gameplay is very linear. You might be in a kind of 'dungeon' and it seems like you get to explore. But actually, most of the clickable items are repetitive (eg. There could be 10 locked doors you can click, but all give the same message). And it's just one room into the next, in predetermined sequence.
Maybe it leads into more gameplay and opens up to more exploration later, but 10-12 hours of clicking a button to read the next line in a speech-bubble based story makes it not worth finding out. Better off buying a book.