Ok, despite understanding French, thus been able to play the game, I feel far more at ease with English so this review will be in English. Ok, let’s start with the game. It’s sure atmospheric and the story is good enough to keep you. Between a broken family (haven’t reach at the part where I have found out why the protagonist cut out ties with family, mostly generic things), a shady pharmaceutical company, some hackers of your phone and you with mental illness, all the substories I have encountered this far, have been enough intriguing to keep me interested. Even the whole, helping two of your friends to get together was a sweet human ordinary touch which I much enjoyed. On the negatives now. In an attempt to be intriguing, sometimes the dialogues feel like they were written from teenagers. The most notable example is the character of Buddy. Seriously, I have never met a person who is like that, above 20. From the GIFs to the way of his talking, he feels more like an AI teenager, than an actual person of 20+-30. And is not only that, the protagonist herself has some very non-human choices for answers, which sometimes limit the choices of actions where it could have been more. Why for instance after not answering to something, you end up ghosting. I might not want to respond, because I’m contemplating an answer that I was given or because the other convinced me for something and the game doesn’t have a response for that. It doesn’t necessarily means that I want to “cut ties”. Also the unknown number which mentions something for chips, could write, with a better spelling. I know he is supposed to be like scammers who do a lot of mistakes, but for a non-native speaker, this can be a little confusing. Now on minor details and bugs, which is the main reason why I wrote this post. First of all, it is clearly designed for phones, and it loses some of the feeling experience on tablets, so I would suggest a different interface, which would be more suiting for these situations. Secondly, I chose a male partner for a female protagonist, so sometimes the pronouns and naming went mixing. For instance I can recall multiple times calling the partner “Ana” instead of “Anael” and using female pp for him. But those two are quite minor things that can be easily overlooked. The most important bug I’ve encountered which doesn’t let me complete the game, is after a very specific person (I don’t want to spoil anything) asks me what I was doing at 12/1, in which after I saw the calendar and responded to him, I spoke a little bit with the doctor who gave me some tests, and at the last test which he wanted me to find a word (the word «haine» for some reason wasn’t a choice, despite existing), I wrote «voir» and the game crashed. Now when I’m trying to open it just shows the logo, hearing some ambience and crashes. Therefore, I cannot complete the game and have a completed opinion on the matter. Worst thing, the support page link, is dead. To sum it up, it’s not a bad game, and it can certainly keep you company while using public transportation and have a good time with it. But since I can not complete it, because the game is crashing, and there is nothing of a known bug in the description, I would suggest caution to those who download it, since they may encounter the same problem as me and lose their time for nothing. Thus the 3 stars instead of 4.
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