La Jetée

La Jetée IS NOT A GAME NOR A VISUAL NOVEL. It is a short film made and directed by Chris Marker. The full film has been uploaded on many youtube accounts and vimeo pages. This "game" has straight up ripped the entire movie and is trying to pass it off as a "game". Nowhere in the description is it stated that this is an actual movie. I thought that it might have been associated to the actual movie but nop. It seems that they screenshotted the original movie but a low res version of it as many of the pictures are horribly compressed. Many of the images also have french subtitles embedded into them. Very lazy. An insult to the original work, which is actually a beautiful piece of art and has inspired the movie and tv series 12 Monkeys. For shame Arthouse indie Games.

This is not a game, or visual novel - it's a classic film by Chris Marker that has been butchered to autoplay in Unity. I thought this would be some kind of interesting and original take on the theme of the film (a missed opportunity) but it's just a worse version of the film. It's one thing to do an homage, but this is just trash. The devs should change their name to Led Zeppelin for being such a cultural thief. I don't know how this got past Steam Review.

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A (once) free adaptation of the seminal Chris Marker film: nearly all of the short consists of still images only, so it translates really well into the format of a kinetic visual novel (one wihtout any choices). It's a rather expressionistic and melodramatic tale about a man witnessing his own death as a child while living towards the (lost) love of a woman (Ligia Branice, "Blanche"). All framed within the compounds of futuristic dystopian images and the modernity of a contemporary airport where the destiny of the man unfolds (in black and white of course). The game uses a distortion filter which is quite effective, the same goes for the musical background - mostly. The writing of the visual novel being nothing special at all, but not embarassing either. Like the movie it lasts for about half an hour when reading fast without skipping the majority of the text.

[h1]Before I played La Jetée, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

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