March Assassination #1
My Steam Review - Consider leaving a thumbs up, it means a lot to me :)
Restless Soul is a like a book of jokes, but you have to walk between each one, interact, and wait slowly while it unfolds on the screen. It gets so old so quickly, but at least the game recognizes that and allows you to fast-forward dialogue. In a game primarily about dialogue. That's how self-aware it is of how bad its jokes are.
The problem is - if you're buying this game for the jokes, it gets old too quickly. But if you're buying it for anything other than the jokes, there's barely one hour of gameplay here, which varies between really poor twin stick shooting and menial puzzles that change from town to town, like mini-Sokoban puzzles, jumping puzzles, or top-down obstacle dodging. The visual style, while charming at first, becomes monotonous around the halfway mark.
I feel I still had a decent hour and a half of game left if I kept playing the way the devs intended - reading every line of dialogue. But I was so tired of the meta-contextual jokes, of the 1st grade humor, and of EVERY LITTLE INTERACTION trying to be funny that I simply held the Run button, skipped all optional dialogue and fast-forwarded all obligatory dialogue, and finished the remainder of the game in 10-15 minutes. And surprisingly, skipping the dialogue made it more bearable.
I can't find any reason why someone would pay to play this. This is like Turnip Boy, but bad.
Lol i love this one !
I like how you explain how the game is bad but trying to avoid the spoil. Any exemple of awful joke from the game ?
I feel that, individually, most jokes are fine, and many are even good. What hurts them is the sheer repetition. And too frequently they veer into slapstick/cartoonish comedy, which needs to be used sparingly to stay relevant.
But if you want a few examples, check the game trailer on the Steam page. You’ll see joke after joke, non-stop. The one where he escapes prison by turning sideways (since he’s a 2D character). The one where the guard catches him and just asks him to not tell anyone. The one with the lab scientist saying he’s working for a better tomorrow, and the protagonist asks about today. Now imagine this for four hours. Individually, each one is tame, not terrible but also not incredibly fun. But they come in such quick succession that you never have time to ask for more.
Ah i see. Yes, i understand that it can be tiring in the long run. Hey congratz for still finishing it, at least the artstyle is cute !