Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

Should you be curious about this game, get it on sale. It is worth neither your time nor your money. [i]Harmony[/i] is a visual novel that goes all out on the [i]visual[/i] part. It's beautiful, colourful, with animated characters and full cutscenes. However, it fails hard at the [i]novel[/i] part. The text is not pleasant to read, the scenes don't connect smoothly depending on your choices, and the writing in general feels so immature. It's like a teenager writing what they believe activism is about. That's another issue : it's not really a story about two worlds and the repercussions they have on each other. It's a story about fighting a corporation, and it would still stand without the supernatural elements. It's like they were added just to appeal to a certain fanbase. Most characters are flat and you don't get attached to them, nor do you care about what happens to them. Some were saved by the fantastic voice acting, but not even all of them. (Mostly the Aspirations.) The Augural is a nice idea, but it could have been so much more. It doesn't feel impactful to make choices when you see so little of their consequences. And it feels useless to click on nodes when there …

This story had me hooked from start to finish, I highly recommend it! ♥

A must. Loved the choices.

It's all very well done. Fantastic art direction, voice acting, and audio. A interesting story as well. Was not as big of a fan of the choices mechanics, but i see what they were going for. It's a clever idea, but just wasn't for me. I've enjoyed all of DON'T NOD's games over the years, this one not as much as some, but I'm still glad i played it. I'm glad they still try different things game to game. Game ran well, no hitches or crashes.

Alright in terms of art, audio, story, all great. My only gripes are the map and replayability. The map isn't particularly intuitive, definitely not logical. I get that it looks pretty, but the symbols and effects to indicate what you can do is a bit subtle and small for my not so great vision, and honestly is redundant in places. If I didn't unlock something, just X it out, don't make me squint or zoom in to see if it's an option. Also some things you think you can still interact with after another interaction but for some reason can't, no lock, no X, just can't do it because reasons? Then there is the fact that there is an easy linear path in most places with the choices, no matter what you chose it goes from one spot to the next, yet the "map" shows things side by side or one even behind the other, but you start to realize these are arbitrary visual choices, not intuitive map design. Quit making things more difficult to understand, or misleading me in places to think that something is different just to spread things out in a "pretty" way. Nobodies going to be disappointed if their map is laid out in a helpful way. It isn't even that nice to look at because to see it a…

★★★★★