Unity - Completed - Lockdown 2024 [v1.26.5] [480 Games]

Review for 0.7.3

Lockown 2024 has several redeeming features and several negative features.

At the start of the game you are immediately confronted with the first puzzle: Constructing a hand cart. This one puzzle sets the mood for the rest of the game because the solution is less than obvious. Instead of using game hints and basic knowledge to complete the puzzle, you instead have to click randomly around the area and in your inventory to eventually finish the puzzle. It should be fairly obvious: get a screwdriver, drag it onto the cart or w/e, construct the cart, and Done. Instead, it winds up being a mess of spam clicking everything and confusion. It might make sense for the developer that made the game and thus already knows the solution to everything, but for the player, it's not quite as clear. This experience generally follows you through the game, with some areas being relatively clear, and some areas even worse.

For the good, the story isn't half bad. I won't spoil it, but the MC starts at the bottom of the food chain and works his way up. It's an underdog story with a mystery to work out.

Renders are good as well. Some are a bit blurry, for example, the outdoor basketball... field? Pitch? W/e, it's a bit blurry. Animations are well done. Transiting from room to room is done instantly, while in the MC's room the MC actually "walks" to different parts of his room similar to the game "Adventure of Willy D". I'm not quite sure why it's like this, but it's there.

All in all, it's an Average ™ game that could get better or worse depending on how it goes. People who really like puzzles might like it more, but I don't so it's average., fite me.

XOXO

Summer Love

Story is a fucking blast but i guess this dev is just a good writer and not good at other things at all.
Mc,well typical loser,even though it's becoming a common things in nowadays avn,i ain't accepting that shit as regular.
Renders are okay,characters personality are shit
Overall good avn but not for me

I'm not trying to be so negative but this game looked good right up until playing it. The mini games were absolutely horrible. The MC really doesn't have to be shown as a complete idiot, though that seems to be the trend these days. I don't like to use this word, but the dialogue with him is cringy.

The only bright point as of yet is the character design, it looks pretty good so far.

0.4.2

Feedback - The Options screen just gives you a black screen with no options. But worse yet, no way to exit out of the Options screen. So you are required to Force Quit out of the game and start it over.

Feedback - The game shows a 32-35 year old man laying in bed, and that confused me because I thought the player was a young "son" type of character. But later after the intro, you do play as a young male.

Feedback - Having the dialogue "type" itself out is no fun. It would be nice if there was an option for the text to be immediately displayed, because this "typing" makes the game drag out soooooo slow and makes it boring.

Feedback - Because of the dialogue "typing" itself out, I couldn't control the speed. I spammed the left and right mouse buttons (they do the same thing) and the game was still unbearably slow, making me want to just uninstall the game right away without playing it.

Feedback - There are no features like Save, Fast Forward, Rewind, Text Speed, etc.

Feedback - ESC key does nothing while in the game or in the Main Menu screens (like Options).

Feedback - The renders look bad. When you are finally in the game and can move around, you are in a bright garage with a lot of objects, none of which have shadows. Very bad lighting so there isn't any realism or beauty to the graphics at all.

Feedback - When the player walks into a room, it's just a cardboard cutout of him in a walking animation and then the cardboard cutout of him is slowly moved around the screen. Very unimpressive.

I give up. The only good thing about the game is being able to define relationships and names. And after you get into the game, I guess there is stuff to do like interact with objects, solve puzzles, and unlock rooms and stuff. But I've seen games that do that a lot better, even 3DCG Ren'Py kinetic novels. I couldn't get excited enough for this game to actually want to pay attention to the intro or to actually explore the garage.

I had typed an in depth review on how painstakingly frustrating this game is, but for some reason my browser just shut off, and I dont have the strength to write it again... so in short
A good story drowned in absolutely shit sandbox and minigames. Oh and yeah, this game has one of the worst hint system i've ever encountered. So when the hint says find this person/ thing, be mentally prepared to waste a lot of time going through every location there is .

Not a fan. The art was not great. The point and click is clunky and the building ext. part is not good. Think it would be a good story but it takes way to long to tell the story through how clunky everything was. Didn't even finish it.