Which still leaves you with the game that, at it’s core, is pretty cute and nice and interesting and worth checking out.
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And then it proceeds to add a “real ending” free update that is a big barely interactive cutscene that is everything wrong I mentioned in one go and still written as an average fanfic, with the authors being way too much into their own fiction with little regard to actually making it good for the rest. And then proceeds to presume that you, the player, cares about that a lot and puts words in your mouth (remember it has dialogue where you’re supposed to reply, as yourself). It makes characters that had little but meaningful impact talk more and have exactly the same impact, but now taking more player’s time. It makes several locations, that had a good pace, much longer and introduces tedious item hunts. Paid version, however, especially exemplified with the free update released later, misses the entire point. It posed some tough (in theory) questions, ended at the right moment and, even with the (well deserved) success of later released similar in premise and ideas titles, had a very nice and unique place to itself. The original had a pretty curious idea of being able to finish the game only in one proper sitting, with saves available only at certain points and closing the game meaning permanent death and no ability to replay (by normal means), a lot of puzzles based around checking things on your system, dialogue directly with you, the player, and rather weakly written and paced, but surprisingly effective concept behind the story. OneShot is a commercial re-release/director’s cut of a free RPG maker story-driven adventure-exploration game from three years ago, with fourth wall breaking concepts and pretty good soundtrack. This might’ve been something interesting, but, sadly, it isn’t. And while it has a “story” and even 3 endings, none of them are particularly engrossing, as much as just occasionally stuff happens and you move on to the next part. Game becomes more gruesome and almost jump scare heavy, which, despite some truly inspired twisted imagery, just gets you to the “end already” point. But as it progresses, it becomes clear that the developers never really thought of creating much beyond just wondering a lot of empty rooms and corridors slowly and, depending on the part of the game, at times avoiding enemies via stealth or running away.Īs such, it quickly becomes a very boring game, as you slowly walk around, being unable to do more than just walk in most cases, with occasional pointless “examine” prompts and constant ability to open doors as only other actions.
It has a very unique mostly black and white pencil drawn line art, solid atmospheric soundtrack and does start with a lot of promise.
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Neverending Nightmares is a game full of promise. Let me write a few things on Neverending Nightmares, Dropsy and OneShot. Three open-ended exploratory story-driven games, all using unconventional approach to the genre they would usually be in.
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