The Dark Side

I would say get it when it's on sale, only if you are willing to put up with the problems. Yes, the translation leaves a lot to be desired. There's tons of mistakes, but you can get the gist of the story. The story idea is interesting, but it has the typical far too innocent teenager as a protagonist. I really wish games like this would take the ages of the folks buying these games into consideration. Okay so there may be SOME teens buying them, but most of us are adults, thanks. Anyway, I got a great ending the first time and so-so endings the other two times. Will try more later. Mechanically, the game suffers from a couple of bad mistakes which other reviews have mentioned. Skipping skips everything, including the stuff you haven't read which makes skipping pointless and a bother which affects or prevents additional play throughs. Secondly, advancing the story requires hitting the space bar, however, when the skip function doesn't work properly we tend to hit the space bar continuously, so i was pretty shocked when a choice came up while hitting it and my rapidly hitting the space bar to get to that point also made the selection for me. The choices should not be link…

The Dark Side: No, no, no, no, no!! Just... Just –[b]NO[/b]! [i][b]The Dark Side[/b][/i] is one of the worst things I’ve ever read! I actually ended up getting a refund on this drivel, which is something I basically [i]never[/i] do! It was less than £1 on sale and I still didn’t want it anywhere near me!! The game starts out with [b]Diana[/b], the main character, and her father moving into the house they inherited from her grandmother because of financial reasons; fair enough. However, very quickly we learn that there was tension between this grandmother and Diana’s father, to the point that they stopped talking. Now, without any idea about the full story on this matter, Diana decides to get all high and mighty and starts an argument with her father after one of the locals, a complete stranger, tells the girl her gran was actually a nice lady; and I mean, she COMPLETELY flips out! I found her attitude disgusting and hypocritical as, up to this point, she listened to her father without question when she could have reached out to her grandma and made her own decision on things. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2074672503 The picture on the main menu of Dian…

No. Please, just don't. No matter how good the discount looks, this is not worth the 85 pence, 30 rubles or whatever units of currency you might use in your country. The writing is atrocious, and annoyingly so, and playing this game in Russian just grates on my nerves. I can't even say it's so bad it's good, it's just bad. The experience is akin to reading the metaphorical term paper of a stereotypical bad student - there's a bunch of words to increase the word count, and, idk, make the author look smart (hey, see? I have a huuuge vocabulary, so I'll just dump all the words and adjectives and adverbs and what not that I know in so you can see FOR SURE how good of a writer I am and who cares if my overly convoluted sentences ruin the flow of the narrative and make no damn sense? I'm the new Tolstoy), but no real substance to the text. I'm drowning in all that water. This game DESPERATELY needed an editor to put a stop to the lead writer's creative diarrhea. On the other hand, I must commend the translator's efforts. It must have taken a great deal of patience and skill to go through this drivel and make it readable. Sure, you get some mistakes here and there, but the overall flow is…

[h1]The Story[/h1] We begin with our heroine Diana and her father moving in to a house they have inherited from her recently deceased grandmother Anna, whom she never knew due to – we are told initially – strained relations between her dad and the older woman. She quickly meets a local resident Theo in a nearby park, an ordinary lad who she befriends; and is a potential love interest. Venturing a little further, she goes on to meet a strange, disconcerting fella who seems able to mysteriously disappear; and almost immediately after this, two brothers who live at a mansion at the end of the park who are initially not keen to have her anywhere near their property. If this seems a little slow to you, then it is in keeping with the first couple of chapters of the game, which has 9 chapters in total plus an epilogue. The story really starts to get into its stride once Diana is invited to the mansion for dinner by the brothers' sister Madeleine, and she steps out of the building into the back yard... only it is not the back yard as she expected; but a dangerous, parallel world equivalent known as the Dark Side. Unwittingly, Diana had stepped through a portal into this alternate reali…

This game is interesting. It has a great story with likeable characters, nice art and music with a unique writing style. I liked the story and I liked the characters. It's also a good length and affordable. This game makes for a fun afternoon!

It is a cute otome visual novel with multiple different and interesting endings. Some of the technical mechanics are cumbersome but it really is an interesting story. To my surprise, Theo's routes were the most enjoyable. I don't typically go for the guy next door thing, but he proved to be well worth the read. Adrian actually disappointed me a little. I tend to find the whole "Dark Lord" troupe exciting, but his story unfortunately fell short of my expectations. Even with that, I still recommend the story.