Ferrule Instincts
Yellow Optic · 2022 · Visual Novel, Strategy, Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure, Casual
PC
3 user reviews0% · 3
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About Ferrule Instincts
You’re the rich girl Kayla Ferrule - And your birthday is in a week. Unbeknownst to you, Miles Hector, your friend, got in with some bad apples, and they are coming after you! Can you outsmart both him and his mobster friends and make it to your 20th safe and sound?
Test your instincts in this brief interactive adventure based on Yellow Optic’s Fool Me Twice.
To celebrate your 20th birthday, your friend Miles Hector invited you out to enjoy some quality time together. Your trusty butler Luna Syracuse is a little weary of you out of the safety of the Ferrule Mansion, and sure enough, a few mobsters managed to run into you. They surely have some designs on a high-value target, and Miles claimed he tried to keep them at bay for you.
Look into your decision-making skills, and choose the best course of action. Every single choice you make will help you celebrate your birthday with all the bells and whistles and avoid capture by some unscrupulous people.
A distillation of the central storyline from Fool Me Twice, take control of Kayla’s destiny and give her the life-saving hand she was too spoiled to develop herself.
What say your instincts?
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The same highly-detailed, vibrant, and rich 2.5D art by Nenetlitzi that graced Yellow Optic now graces the full story. Enjoy every single scene in crisp 1080p, which is powered by originals that are 7x larger for ultimate sharpness. Every single sprite and background is examined to the sub-pixel level, so visual perfection is guaranteed.
Fool Me Twice defined the starting point of Yellow Optic. Conceived in 2015 as a text-based novel, it has been remastered and redistilled into a visual form that is both edge-of-your-seat while beautiful to look at. The same writer that penned the original novel re-adapted the tale for a new medium, so the every bit of vision is as present as ever.
Ferrule Instincts was brought to life with the help of indie artist Pia “Nenetlitzi” Coppins. A portion of sales from every single purchase of Ferrule Instincts will go towards the artist. It’s not just a great experience for you, but also incredibly meaningful for the Yellow Optic team behind it.
Yellow Optic was founded on the idea that stories should be fun, and it should not come at the expense of the reader. Enjoy an uncompromising experience at an affordable price everyone will enjoy. And its ultra-lightweight package (smaller than 1 GB) means you can easily carry an extra Yellow Optic story with you alongside your already-huge library.
Just because it’s small and compatible doesn’t mean we’ll let it just sit there! We are continuously working on updates to brighten up the game, so the next time you start up Ferrule Instincts, you may find surprises that cause you to love it even more. Also if you do need someone to help you troubleshoot, shoot us an email!
We can’t wait to see how your instincts stack up! Let us know what you think!
Test your instincts in this brief interactive adventure based on Yellow Optic’s Fool Me Twice.
The Plot
To celebrate your 20th birthday, your friend Miles Hector invited you out to enjoy some quality time together. Your trusty butler Luna Syracuse is a little weary of you out of the safety of the Ferrule Mansion, and sure enough, a few mobsters managed to run into you. They surely have some designs on a high-value target, and Miles claimed he tried to keep them at bay for you.
Look into your decision-making skills, and choose the best course of action. Every single choice you make will help you celebrate your birthday with all the bells and whistles and avoid capture by some unscrupulous people.
A distillation of the central storyline from Fool Me Twice, take control of Kayla’s destiny and give her the life-saving hand she was too spoiled to develop herself.
What say your instincts?
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Original High-Quality Art
The same highly-detailed, vibrant, and rich 2.5D art by Nenetlitzi that graced Yellow Optic now graces the full story. Enjoy every single scene in crisp 1080p, which is powered by originals that are 7x larger for ultimate sharpness. Every single sprite and background is examined to the sub-pixel level, so visual perfection is guaranteed.
Original Story
Fool Me Twice defined the starting point of Yellow Optic. Conceived in 2015 as a text-based novel, it has been remastered and redistilled into a visual form that is both edge-of-your-seat while beautiful to look at. The same writer that penned the original novel re-adapted the tale for a new medium, so the every bit of vision is as present as ever.
Supporting Indie Artists
Ferrule Instincts was brought to life with the help of indie artist Pia “Nenetlitzi” Coppins. A portion of sales from every single purchase of Ferrule Instincts will go towards the artist. It’s not just a great experience for you, but also incredibly meaningful for the Yellow Optic team behind it.
Light On Your Wallet, Light On Your Machine
Yellow Optic was founded on the idea that stories should be fun, and it should not come at the expense of the reader. Enjoy an uncompromising experience at an affordable price everyone will enjoy. And its ultra-lightweight package (smaller than 1 GB) means you can easily carry an extra Yellow Optic story with you alongside your already-huge library.
Continuous Support
Just because it’s small and compatible doesn’t mean we’ll let it just sit there! We are continuously working on updates to brighten up the game, so the next time you start up Ferrule Instincts, you may find surprises that cause you to love it even more. Also if you do need someone to help you troubleshoot, shoot us an email!
We can’t wait to see how your instincts stack up! Let us know what you think!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Ferrule Instincts is a visual novel that players found severely lacking in content and depth. The game is extremely short, taking only 10-40 minutes to experience all endings, with minimal choice impact and unsatisfying conclusions that reveal little new information across playthroughs. Players feel the brief story and lack of replayability make it difficult to recommend, especially given the absence of additional features like achievements, trading cards, or a CG gallery.
[i]Ferrule Instincts[/i] is a visual novel developed and published by Yellow Optic. You take on the role of Kayla Ferrule, a wealthy woman who's about to celebrate her 20th birthday. Kayla's friend, Miles, wants to take her out to celebrate. However, there are some shady people who are out to kidnap Kayla, so your objective is to prevent Kayla from being kidnapped so she can have a wonderful birthday. I'll end my story synopsis here to avoid spoilers and all that. As for the gameplay, [i]Ferrule Instincts[/i] has some options that are presented throughout the story. These choices determine whether Kayla will get one of three bad endings or the one happy ending. At the time of this review, there are no Steam achievements or trading cards, not even a CG gallery. Now that I've gone over the story and gameplay, I'll move onto my critique. After reading the store page description for this VN, I found the premise to be interesting. Storywise, it has the makings of a mystery, suspenseful adventure. However, I found the story to be somewhat flat. According to the developers, this VN is based on [i]Fool Me Twice[/i], but if you have no idea what it is, then the basis will get lo…13 found this helpful
I feel kind of bad leaving a negative review on what is most likely a passion project, but I can't in good conscience recommend this game considering its short playtime, lack of replayability and questionable storytelling. This game has a story that lasts about 10 minutes, if I'm being really generous and it only took me 40 minutes to get every ending and I read it aloud with a friend, so it would have taken me slightly longer. There are only 4 choices in this game, one of which changes literally nothing. There are only really 3 ending, despite there being marginally different versions of one of them, and none of them were particularly satisfying. Spoilers from this point on. Now, the storytelling. If I hadn't read the Steam page, I would have been missing [i] a lot [/i] of important context for this story. For example: Kayla is rich, Miles has fallen in with the literal mafia, Luna is Kayla's butler. Of course, it is possible to guess this information from the game itself, however it is never made clear. This wouldn't be too much of a problem if the story was good. It's not. I haven't read the book that this game is based on, so perhaps the original story is good, but the…11 found this helpful
Not worth the investment I'm afraid, and yes you're eyes don't deceive you, that how long it had taken me to finish this game, 4 times to get all the endings, mind you I spent a couple of minutes the next day to check if I mess anything. For how short this game was, leaving not much of an impact, it's very easy for me to ignore it and move on with my life, but wanted to give the developer the benefit of the doubt and share my thoughts and feelings on it while sprinkling in some suggestions to improve on this game. So, more or less the rest of this review is towards the developer than the players reading it. Firstly, if a game is this short with the selling point of achieving multiple different endings at least make them interesting or have them reveal some new information for the players to learn. All of the total of the 3 bad endings were particularly the same while the one good ending wasn't that satisfying as we don't get to spend much time with the existing character to feel it's earned or anything. What this game desperately needs is more scenes fleshing out the supporting characters like the butler and our main character's best friend, Mike. Furthermore, it would have been …3 found this helpful
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