Heroes Rise: HeroFall

Coming from the versus books by the same author this entire series felt so forced. You have no player agency, and it seems like the author never wants you to be happy with your choices when you do get to make them, forcing you pick between 3 options, 2 of them being the wrong options and making you feel like you failed, and the other one being the authors choice.

[h1]SUNK COST FALLACY[/h1] As a big fan of games in the Interactive Fiction genre, I usually try my best not to be too harsh on them. They are often written by a single person working on them as a hobby, so I don't expect AAA-quality writing. Unfortunately, when it comes to the Heroes Rise trilogy, I've seen it recommended many times as an introduction to the genre, or at least as one of the "better" series out there. I'm sorry, but I just don't see it. I know people can have different tastes, but Heroes Rise as a whole is simply not good. It's a very rushed, generic story about heroes and villains that doesn't do anything particularly well. Recommending it to new readers would be a disservice to the genre. I wouldn't have even played HeroFall if I'd known better beforehand, but I'd already finished the two previous games. That's when the sunk cost fallacy kicked in, and I decided to see the story through to the end. Was it worth it? No. I didn't see any improvement in any aspect of the game, and simply stumbled my way to the ending. At least it didn't take too long to get there, since you can finish HeroFall in less than four hours. [b]I can't recommend HeroFall, nor can I reco…

Even if the ending is massivley cartacic, well earned and a long time coming, there are to many flaws to truly enjoy this game. A lot of railroading, unclear choices and worst of all, options to spend real money to get better results. Choices dont matter that much and the trilogys sadist-show credentials are in full display. Also, you are apparently a monster and erveryone can tell that if you kill the next Adolf Hitler, who has been making your life hell for decades and planning to carry out a genocide.

Its been a while since I posted my reviews for the first two games and unfortunately my opinion has drastically shifted. I don't like the first two anymore, and that extends to this one. For being the finale it really wants to speed through it, having only about 13 chapters compared to the 20 of the previous books. This leads to rushed character development, plot points and progression in just about everything. The lead up to finding your parents is anti-climatic, no emotional reunion or any other kind of scene, it gets treated to a single scene and moved on. The timeline is also messed up because of one line saying its been TWO YEARS since the first chapter of the series and that makes now sense, Book 1 seemed to only take place over a month, Book 2 happened a month after that and took a month or two to finish. Book 3 literally starts a few weeks after the end of book 2, so all in all that is barely several months not two years. But then its hard to know as their are hardly any mentions of time frames. Overall this series is quite bad and going by the other series done by the same author its pretty much par for the course. 4/10

It is nice. but... Needs an undo option

Good