Nobody Wants To Die - cyberpunk interactive noir story

[Raghar]

Well, when you read books about Phil Marlowe he is asshole who gets money for doing investigation, and at the end he typically gets the money even for being asshole, but most importantly he gets his booze and he's happy. Aka it kinda has happy ending, even when Phil Marlowe is shit as a person, and city where he lives is shit.

Even if we take the game as Visual Novel in 3D setting with zero replicability and playtime of 4 hours. Ending is bad.

I can understand that Ed, Edd, and Eddie is acquired taste. And some French animated cartoons about boogers from nose can be hard to understand for people without sufficient art and literacy education.

But frankly, the ending is about as shit as ending in that Polish game named: Cyberpunk 2077.

 

[Gargaune]

Ended up watching it on YouTube. Not my kinda game, plays a bit like a FPP Heavy Rain-style adventure albeit thinner on content and agency, but it is a sight to behold, especially against the horrific contemporary landscape of candy colours and triviality. While the writing and VO both lay it on a bit too thick, this thing nails the tech noir mood and aesthetics I'd have liked to get from CDPR's Cyberpunk. If these guys got enough funding to evolve their formula into an FPS/RPG next time around, I'd be in.

But frankly, the ending is about as shit as ending in that Polish game named: Cyberpunk 2077.

It's got four different endings (well, one and three variations on another), one of which is a happy ending... in a Planescape: Torment sort of way.

 

[Zlaja]

Ended up watching it on YouTube. Not my kinda game, plays a bit like a FPP Heavy Rain-style adventure albeit thinner on content and agency

Actually, it plays very much like another cyberpunk-ish game from Maxie land, Observer. If you played that one, then you know what to expect.

Pros:
- Art style
- Music
- Muh graphics
- Fun investigation method

Cons:
- Dialogue
- Limited C&C
- Hand holdy detective work
- Pretty short (5 hours)

Story is ok. Has 4 endings, but only 2 distinct ones (3 of the endings are slight variations of each other).

 

[Zombra]

Yeah, >observer_ also sucked.

 

[True Ukrainian]

OK. I played it and it's pretty bad. This isn't a game, it's a fancy visual novel. Which isn't a problem by itself, the game has very good art direction, but the plot is pure rubbish.

I'm going to talk about the plot so, stop reading if you don't want spoilers.






The game starts with the hero Karra, in his car having a hallucination of talking with his dead wife. Wife is one of the few people in this world who met final death, and Karra is on leave to recover from a recent death himself.

Karra then gets a call from the police chief and we find out that Karra is sort of suspended from the force because of something called the train event. Chief refuses to reinstate Karra but wants him to retrieve the mind of a recently deceased big shot for reinstallation in a new body. Karra gets a new partner and off he goes.

And the plot holes emerge almost immediately.

Karra is a terrible choice for this mission, something the chief should have realized from the start. He's an honest loose cannon and it's soon clear that the whole point of the mission is to cover up a potential scandal. Karra chimps out during the mission, rejects orders, pressures his partner into following his lead and starts investigating when the chief orders him to stop.

And then it's revealed Karra is mentally unstable, he's a poor match for his current body and needs drugs and alcohol to stay in control. It's crazy the chief would trust Karra with anything confidential, but players are supposed to accept this retardation as part of the plot.

The plot becomes even more retarded and we see karra's dark past. Because all noir detectives have one. He literally chimped out while trying to arrest a drug dealer, killed multiple civilians in a botched arrest and got his original partner killed as well. How does Karra even keep his job? No idea, you're just supposed to accept this.

And it gets even stupider from there. So stupid that the plot "twist" is outright insulting.

 

[Beowulf]

Wow, what a non game it is.
It's just a visual novel with occasional button prompts. The atmosphere is there, with all the cliches of the genre, but otherwise the total linearity of the experience make it boring.
It also features my favorite investigation mechanic - you have to approach certain situations looking at just the correct angle to see the button prompt that will allow you to go proceed to the next step and you cannot discover clues in a different order than what the developers prescribed.

 

[Highgrade]

Wow, what a non game it is.
It's just a visual novel with occasional button prompts. The atmosphere is there, with all the cliches of the genre, but otherwise the total linearity of the experience make it boring.
It also features my favorite investigation mechanic - you have to approach certain situations looking at just the correct angle to see the button prompt that will allow you to go proceed to the next step and you cannot discover clues in a different order than what the developers prescribed.

Thanks for the heads up. I was thinking of trying it but not anymore lol

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

I do. After seeing this garbage trailer.

It's made by potatoes.

Omg look at those unbelievably sexy mom jeans.



plz have this woman appear in all the dev interviews. I am ready for endless fappage.

 

[don_tomaso]

I mean, she looks like a normal woman and most likely does a normal job. The game has a ton of issues, the biggest one is that the game isn't a game. I'd argue she has very little to do with that and the big issue is a male lead not doing what he was designed to do. It's a crap "game" designed by a crap male designer. That's it.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

I mean, she looks like a normal woman

Yeah, that's what makes her hot. You know what year we live in right? The bar is set at record lows.