These games actively make the world a worse place to live in, some of them unintentionally, many of them deliberately. Also included, are a few 2-star games from the most horrible and incorrigible developers who go out of their way to attack and harass players and to suppress all feedback and criticism.
Prologue: Intriguing; 3 stars
Chapter 1 until Rohan's appearance: Boring; 2 stars
Chapter 1 from Rohan's appearance: Frustrating; 1 star
Chapter 2: Frustrating AND boring; 0 stars
Chapter 3 until talking to Leanna: Even more boring AND frustrating; Negative stars
Chapter 3 after talking to Leanna: Who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Who cares?
Chapter 4: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Love interests? I don't even like them! Heck, I don't even like me, the MC. The side characters though? Yeah, them I like." - A comment deleted by the fake Kurdish developer
So basically, they're all whores, and the author's self-insert is the worst of the lot.
Uther a hero and Arthur a villain?!
Do you hear that distant rumbling? That is the sound of hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of Arthurian scholars, literary historians and very, very angry Celts turning in their graves.
More trash from the same censorious clown 😂
You decided you wanted to misrepresent Uther Pendragon as the arch-hero of the Arthurian Cycle; so you don't get to be pissy about it when that gets pointed out as being a bold move.
If you present a choice of two options, but one of them isn't an option that readers are actually allowed to choose, and if they do, you are going to funnel them into the other option anyway, then just write it as part of the story, instead of pretending the reader ever had any choice.
The censorious creep developing this endorses terrorism and assassinations so long as they are ordered by union bosses.
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You think viewing the public devlog you linked above, to see if you are indeed pathetic enough to be bragging about your censorship, constitutes "stalling [sic] this blog"?
And that I'm a "full-on right-wing bigot" for... *checks notes* for opposing the nazi occupation of western Russia and the genocide of Jews in occupied western Israel...
Yeah, you really are in a league all your own, huh. 😂
By all means, please give me more of this sweet free press to improve my street cred. But also spare some for whoever was awesome enough to piss you off, merely by telling you that "there were no queer cowboys". They deserve some of the love too. Hats off to them!
Interactive? Hardly, you get to choose between two deaths by succ.
Erotic? Meh, more like simultaneously blasphemous and boring.
Vampire? Well, there's a hem(at)ophagous/sanguivorous creature that sparkles like a Stephenie Meyer creation... so, I guess?
The author demonstrates a very twisted fundamental misunderstanding of both the sacrament of penance and the nature and mode of intrusive thoughts.
More disgusting nazi propaganda from the west. Слава Беларусі! Лукашэнку Слава!
The dictionary lists "DOL-OS" as both the comparative form of "tedious" and the superlative form of "verbose"...
"The bankrupt anybody wedded the miserable area."
I'm with Jeannot on this one, that was... terrible
It fails to be interactive and offer meaningful choices. It fails to tell an engaging story. It fails to be either entertaining or educational. It fails at offering action set pieces. It fails at rhetoric. It doesn't even get romance or eroticism right:
Two of the LIs are they/thems and xe/xems - and despite the latter telling MC they would just as happily go by he/him, the author makes sure never to allow that - and the other two are on hormone replacement therapy.
Why is this rated 18+? Because of the identity politics forced down the reader's throat at every possible turn? It sure isn't as a result of anything sexy.
Dull, dull dull, oh God, it's so fucking dull!
Labor unionist propaganda. The illusion of choice with only the thinnest veneer of player agency.
Preachy feminist misandry
Frankly boring. Idk what I expected.
Boring
Wait that's it? An idiot goblin, a hapless nerd and three female rapists? Where's the "short sweet magical lust ride of 30k words"?
For the first half, the tool-tip for "sylphs" doesn't work. Throughout, your name keeps alternating between your chosen name, "Leah" and "pc_name". Ralph sometimes refers to Sarah as "Ralph" and "he". And on the one hand, the same paragraphs repeat back-to-back with only small differences in text, like they were from two different drafts (e.g. contemplating transformation); while on the other hand, paragraphs seem to get skipped leading to non-sequiturs (e.g. Ralph's hands are suddenly revealed to have been tied behind his back at some unknown prior point).
Uhh, exactly how old is Melinda supposed to be? Because judging by both the illustration and her behavior, she seems rather young to be in this game, especially in such a role.
Disabling scrying content in the menu, does not actually disable scrying content from the game. And attempting to disable it again, while in a scrying scene, causes an error.
There are several instances of tool-tips not working or misdirecting (e.g. Melinda's name having Melissa's tool-tip).
Finally there are a bunch of trivial minor mistakes (e.g. "hit" instead of "heat"; or "he", "her", "she", "him" and "his" getting mixed up). But those are nitpicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKv8Y_A9P3c
I know Ivan Goncharov, the author of Oblomov.
I know Pyotr Goncharov, the composer of To Thy Cross.
I even know Alexander Goncharov, the topologist.
But I still have no clue what this game and jam are about.
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, there was apparently some sort of hoax about a non-existent unreleased neo-noir gangster drama. For better or worse, the hoax seems to have never taken off outside of the 4chan knock-off site where it was started, making it a very esoteric in-joke amongst a particular class of netizens.
The problem with this, is that without that context, the game makes no sense whatsoever.
And even with that context, the game still hardly makes any sense, because the main characters are constantly changing their names between Goncharov and Harvey, and between Andrej and Robert - you could have just called them Goncharvey and Androbert for clarity.
