PLEASE NOTE: I'm coming back to edit this post just to add in this warnjng. The review I wrote was for a version of the game as it was over a year ago. I have no idea how much the game has changed since I wrote it (have not played the game since the review was made) but I am leaving it AS IS since it is still my honest opinion of the version I played. Good luck to the devs, hope the game has improved since my last time here. Loved you art, just not the game play.....
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Rating ver. 1.12.1
Seriously mixed feelings about this one.
Love the art. Top notch stuff there. 5/5
Great characters. 4/5
Funny writing. 4/5
Decent enough story telling. 4/5
That grind though. Oh man. Negative 1000.
Normally I love sandbox games. They're easily my favorite genre. That said everything in "Another Chance" is tied to doing endless laps around the map in order to find, collect, craft, and deliver quest items just to get a couple paragraphs of story progression and/or the occasional short lewd scene.
Basically it's just tons and tons of legwork for minuscule payoffs.
The sad thing is I really could see this actually being a great game if some different design choices had ben made.
And who knows, maybe someday it will be.
There's definitely a LOT of talent on display here with the art and the writing.
But before this game has any chance to become great the dev(s?) would need to start cutting out a ton of the excessive fetch-quest padding and start spending more time focusing on the parts they're doing best: storylines and art.
I really wish I could rate this higher because so much of it is awesome. But videogames are supposed to be about having fun. And right now in it's current state this game just wasn't any fun at all.
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Rating ver. 1.12.1
Seriously mixed feelings about this one.
Love the art. Top notch stuff there. 5/5
Great characters. 4/5
Funny writing. 4/5
Decent enough story telling. 4/5
That grind though. Oh man. Negative 1000.
Normally I love sandbox games. They're easily my favorite genre. That said everything in "Another Chance" is tied to doing endless laps around the map in order to find, collect, craft, and deliver quest items just to get a couple paragraphs of story progression and/or the occasional short lewd scene.
Basically it's just tons and tons of legwork for minuscule payoffs.
The sad thing is I really could see this actually being a great game if some different design choices had ben made.
And who knows, maybe someday it will be.
There's definitely a LOT of talent on display here with the art and the writing.
But before this game has any chance to become great the dev(s?) would need to start cutting out a ton of the excessive fetch-quest padding and start spending more time focusing on the parts they're doing best: storylines and art.
I really wish I could rate this higher because so much of it is awesome. But videogames are supposed to be about having fun. And right now in it's current state this game just wasn't any fun at all.