kratoz29@lemm.ee 10 months ago
(Pyre)
What is wrong with it? A quick Google Search leads me to a pretty good game based on the reviews.
Sparse gameplay, tied together with lots and lots of implied worldbuilding in a lore book that contains most of the story. The gameplay was okay when you got to it, but there was far too much written story locked up, instead of “show, don’t tell”.
Also, the game wants you to finish six tournaments before you get any sort of decent ending.
Huh, interesting. I finished one tournament, and I felt like that was the end. I didn’t realize there was more story if you kept going.
I really liked the story and interactive novel parts of it. The sports game part was alright as variety, but the rest of the game was the best part.
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Pyre is more like a visual novel with some gameplay here and there. Now I don’t mind story heavy games but towards the end I found myself just clicking through the absolute ton of dialogue there was. Vastly preferred Bastion and Transistor which almost never interrupted the gameplay but were still able to tell amazing stories.