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Not going to post a trailer for this as I found it rather spoily. All five of the first season episodes are out. I think I had posted about it in the indie game thread, but this really isn't an indie game: Pro company with square-enix publishing.
This is one of those games that you finish and then think about constantly for days. I'm not sure if anyone here will like it's slow pace and adventure game style play, but the whole package works together so well. I've not been affected so strongly since Journey.
The areas are so well lit, everything either feeling warm or soft or cold and stark. The voice acting is pretty good for american (the upcoming japanese port will no doubt be better), writing is solid (I didn't forsee events like I often do), though the characters are a bit formulaic. The UI has a highschool scribbly doodle look to it, and as you progress stuff is recorded in a great diary with little drawings and such, it's great.
The setting is a small town art school. It has a bit of teen drama to it, but it isn't overpowering. If you ask people that have played what the game is about, you'll probably get different answers. The game changes depending on your choices (seems pretty close to branch-and-bottleneck fromStandard Patterns in Choice-Based Games | These Heterogenous Tasks)
My advice is to go into it blind, if you hunt around on forums you are going to hit major spoilers. It is a polarizing game, so there's a ton of talk about the story right now.
This is one of those games that you finish and then think about constantly for days. I'm not sure if anyone here will like it's slow pace and adventure game style play, but the whole package works together so well. I've not been affected so strongly since Journey.
The areas are so well lit, everything either feeling warm or soft or cold and stark. The voice acting is pretty good for american (the upcoming japanese port will no doubt be better), writing is solid (I didn't forsee events like I often do), though the characters are a bit formulaic. The UI has a highschool scribbly doodle look to it, and as you progress stuff is recorded in a great diary with little drawings and such, it's great.
The setting is a small town art school. It has a bit of teen drama to it, but it isn't overpowering. If you ask people that have played what the game is about, you'll probably get different answers. The game changes depending on your choices (seems pretty close to branch-and-bottleneck fromStandard Patterns in Choice-Based Games | These Heterogenous Tasks)
My advice is to go into it blind, if you hunt around on forums you are going to hit major spoilers. It is a polarizing game, so there's a ton of talk about the story right now.