Lightstep Chronicles

This game was on my wishlist for like 5 years and it's such a dissapointment. It's a choice game with no choices: there is the correct line and badend line, no branching. Boring. And yeah, as far as i've seen there are no voice over beyond starting custscene.

I want to like this game but just can't get into it. It very much is a text based adventure despite the looks. NPCs will go on and on and on with no skip or speed adjustment (since that's all the game is) so you'll have to hear the same NPC repeat the same thing 5 times before moving on to repeat the next thing. When it takes a break from listening to an NPC rant and you're given a dialog option they're bad, this is a game on rails so all options are limited and often the same thing just worded differently. Honestly this should be advertised as a visual novel.

Very quick, but interesting story with plot twists and player driven outcomes.

I wanted to like this game. I did this review before I had the powerful computer that I have now. You may like it if you enjoy text-based games but this just was not for me. https://youtu.be/BUyiBgoARhc

Very fun game. Has great art, multiple endings, and complex/ multiple choice conversations with different characters. Good length.

Unfortunately this game suffers from the flaw of it's genre, and that's railroading the player to move a certain direction. There were several times the answer I knew I should give wasn't an option. One of those was even the answer to a "trivia" question to which I knew the answer. That one, more than any of the others, really irked me. I know why it was done, but by removing choice it's no longer a game and so I can't recommend it.