Failure Drill

So the game is about 10 to 15 minutes, I have replayed it 3 times just to make sure I was not missing anything, and yea, that seems to be it, I could not find anything else to do. Now, I am not really someone that gets very upset about game length, I am just not sure that you can deliver much of an experience in that time. Actually, I have played some decent 10-minute games, but they had like multiple endings or various secrets if you replayed the game, so you could reuse the previous content and still have some kind of rewarding experience exploring the narrative. It's a bit too late now, but if you ever make another short game, at least put a few road forks or dead ends into the game, make a 10-minute game into a 50-minute exploration experience, still not ideal, but I have seen it work before (or at least aim for 2 hours). I will say that I like how this game approaches the visual novel format, It feels like it has more movement and effects than your average game, not exactly another slide show like many games in the genre tend to be, but again, this would be impressive if the game was longer and could maintain that format for an hour or so. There are some very basic interacti…

[quote][i]This is a spoiler free review. It's accompanied by a spoiler-free video review that can be found [b][url=https://youtu.be/5xJyDXMamU0]here[/url][/b].[/i][/quote] [b]In summary, I don’t recommend Failure Drill, and as a numerical score I’d give it a 3/10.[/b] This visual novel has some well-made visual styling, but it lacks in copy / proofing, no sound direction, some clunky puzzle interactions, and storytelling that felt both rushed and shallow. [h2]Introduction[/h2] I picked up Failure Drill because the art looked interesting and I’m a sucker for psychological horrors. Found on the [i]All New Releases[/i] page. Failure Drill is a 2D adventure game that largely plays as a visual novel. You spend most of your time reading text with only an occasional need to interact with stuff, typically for puzzle-purposes. Otherwise, it’s clicking on an element to advance the story. In this game, you play as Claire, a young woman who gets brought into a military academy. It’s not too clear as to why, but what I’ve inferred is that it’s because she lacks empathy, I suppose. She comes from a relatively stressful environment, with familial problems in combination with her not doing we…