Heroes Rise: The Hero Project

While the first game in the series was painfully railroaded with little to no choices that greatly impacted the narrative, at least it had an interesting story where you can try your best to help others, stop the bad guys, or have fun in other ways. "Heroes Rise: The Hero Project", however, plays like a reality show where it’s impossible to decipher what the choices will do beforehand. At numerous points did I pick something that I believed would do one thing, only for something else to happen, ruining the experience. Unless you accidentally select the intended route, you’ll not have a good time, and since I apparently picked the wrong option every chance I got, I hated the experience. I’ve played through the game previously and enjoyed it. However, back then, I played as a goody-two-shoes, and the suitable choices meshed with the intended route much better than my current playthrough did. As such, how railroaded the story is was hidden to a greater degree. (1/10)

Literal trash. Get railroaded into dumb choices.

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I dont like this game despite its good writing for two reasons: 1. It takes place in a trashy reality-show and thats exactly what happens. Fights, manifactured tension, nosensical threads and reactions from npcs because of your choices. It also leads to a much more streamlined game that limits your ability to choose. 2. Destroying the cartasis from the end of the last game, making a majority of the villians untouchable and going the "everyone dumps on the protagonist" route moves this towards a sadist show. Unless you play as the pollyanna, you wount have a good time.

After having 'played' through the Heroes Rise series several times over, I can only describe it, and this installment, as painfully mediocre. Sergi's writing might be adequate for a high-school audience, but if you've matured past that stage it leaves much to be desired.

This is a sequel, I didn't know that until I had bought the sequel and spin off series in its entirety. Regardless of the huge lore drop at the start I experienced, this and the rest of the series is great. Your character's main adversaries, and the other characters no doubt had lots of banter and relationship building in the previous game but even without it these characters are some of the best I have seen. Each has their own opinions and goals, they actually feel like people, and the overall premise is believable. This was my favorite series of the ones I have purchased from these devs and the whole series really is my favorite. Enjoy :)