Chark said:
So is it just me or is Virtue's last reward a terrible terrible game? The direction is aweful, the intro starts you off without any story concepts but then it adds them later, when it should have started off with that at the beginning. To make matters worse the characters act in a way completely inconsolable to the situation they are in. While you are confused, the characters seem to know what is going on, or at least not care about not knowing. They care more about terrible forced character introductions than introducing you to the game which at that point might as well be in a unlit room as setting is uterly void. For having an interesting story concept it is utterly lost on this title from shoddy delivery.
The voice acting might not be as bad isolated from the way the characters act. For rendering 3D characters you'd expect the developers to take advantage of full body and face movements but instead resort to the static 2D poses found in games from pervious generations that didn't have that luxury. It was charming done in 2D, but in 3D they added weight shifting so the characters are alive and moving yet fade out into different poses instead of actually making the pose. That and the poses are very unnatural and limited, so the characters often look the same whenever they speak using poses that do not match what they are saying. The voice acting doesn't go as far as to give the main character a voice for unknown reasons except maybe to destroy all sense of cinematography as you listen to characters speak just to be forced into reading what your character has said and jump back to voiced script and back and back again. Conversation was only effective during the times when all of it was voiced or none of it was voiced.
The gameplay is clunky, plagued by poor touch screen controls that seem to serve as the most difficult part of solving puzzles. You will find yourself watching repeat animations and entering commands you did not intend to while looking around or closing out dialog boxes.
Explain to me why a game like this was made with these astetics in mind. They seem to have successfully taken a good game concept and ignored the process of creating a game. This is something that should have been a book or a movie because everything game like is done poorly. Is this why people say Japanese games are dying? Maybe I just don't have the taste for this genre of games, but then who does?
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Are we talking about the demo here? Keep in mind that this game was made for the Japanese audience, so, it might not be to your liking. Dem Japanese, dey be weird 
, also, dem Japanese, dey get all da good stuff, da best games from da west and all da games from Japan! Lucky bastards!
