Misadventures of Laura Silver

I want to be fair in my assessment of this game. I like a lot of it- the visual style, the characters, some of the ideas presented... but unfortunately, I cannot *recommend* it for anyone. There's little things like small dialogue bugs, which are to be expected in an indie visual novel, I won't hold that against the game. However, the awful thing is- if you *do* like it, and want more of the characters, and expansions on the obvious dangling plot threads, you aren't getting that. There were apparently plans for a sequel that had to be scrapped. Again, I'm not holding that against the devs, but I'm leaving this review to warn anyone who wants to play the game. There are many unanswered questions left in the story- not "unanswered questions" in the sense of pedantic details or plot holes, either- they very clearly set up things that are supposed to be intriguing and that intrigue can never pay off. The true ending, especially, leaves things hanging. This absolutely reads as more of a prologue than a full game, unfortunately, with things getting brought up as something to pay attention to that will never actually get addressed. (The story is quite short- a lot of the playtime list…

Misadventures of Laura Silver is a visual novel by Attic Salt Studios where you play as Laura Silver, a supernatural investigator who has to solve a mysterious murder at her hotel while on the hunt for a creature called a vodnik. This was originally intended to be the first game in a series, but episode 2 was canceled, so I'll be judging this as a standalone game. In this game, you guide Laura Silver through her investigation. Most of the game is fairly linear and involves choosing between dialogue options, although there are a couple of places where you interrogate different characters and one place where you have to reconstruct events. I did not enjoy the interrogations. It was really hard to tell what the right answers were without trial and error, and for at least one of the interrogations that affects what ending you’re able to get. I ended up having to look at a walkthrough for one part because I couldn’t figure out where the conversation was supposed to be going and I got tired of having to restart the section to try things out. I generally liked the story, although there were parts of it that didn’t make much sense. Most of the investigation is very linear, and you piece …

I really wanted to like this game but honestly found it pretty boring

https://youtu.be/yzJRbdK6ck0 Spending an unbalanced amount of time on details and nuance tilts the narrative away from strong pacing and instead drags out small skits into extended bits well past their welcome.

Short and sweet with a cool story. Very good music and a high quality game in general, albeit lacking the ability to skip text making it tedious to go through parts again to see different dialogue possibilities or endings. It's absolutely worth playing tho.

This game is such a rare gem among its genre. So very unique!! I love all characters, even those 3 kids, they will have their redeem point latter in game. Arts is beautiful and outstanding, the story is thorough, detailed and the truth ending is satisfied, music is good too (I've played other visual novel games overused background music which is definitely annoying). I know there are so many hints for character comeback, new monster (at least, there is going to be 3 chapters) but it is a shame that this beautiful game has to cancel at chapter 1. Even so, it worth my time, I enjoy it a lot and have fun playing it. I definitely recommend this, even chapter one is way too good to ignore ~~