Blue has challenged me to play it this month and, OH GOD after finishing this I wish I had never added it to my account ;D
This is a (Spanish!!) kinetic novel and it actually turns out this is the first vn I own from Spain.
Anyway, this is a 7-hour long kinetic novel about the lives of a group of high school friends and their shenanigans. As the title suggests (not really a spoiler) from early on you're supposed to take with a pinch of salt what is actually happening.
This kn bored me—and it didn't bore me because they were seven hours without choices, that doesn't matter to me—it bored me because I didn't care about the characters and their everyday lives, what pranks or challenges they were having.
I kept thinking 'soon there's gonna be this big reveal that will change my opinion of this game and I will understand why it has so many positive ratings!'; that didn't happen to me.
Yes, during the ending things do catch up to you so that at least most things are clarified. The author explains the story, but I still felt like the plot amounted almost to a big nothing. It's been two days since I finished it and I'm already forgetting the original and positive traits that characterised the epilogue.
Moreover, there was this weird behaviour that I noticed was happening with the utilized text font, some words or part of words seemed to be randomly more bolded. I'm still not sure if this ACTUALLY happened because it's not clear in the screenshots I took. Maybe I was imagining it.
Or maybe it was real and it was intended, or it accidentally happened because of the text box transparency, or the font was fucked up because of the original Spanish characters; but most probably it was a graphical bug on my computer end.
Another technical aspect that annoyed me was the lack of an instant text speed option.
To summarise, this is a no from me.
Description
There is no one who is more sincere with their words... than the greatest liar of them all.
Based on a story that should be true, One Thousand Lies tells the tale of Ciarán Endyein, a liar writing the fable of a wolf longing to reach the Sun.
One day, Ciarán starts receiving enigmatic emails from a mysterious sender, turning his everyday life into a mess of a romantic comedy with psychological themes mixed in. What lies beyond the mystery he's been presented with? In the words of Harry H.: "If you want to know the truth, go find it".
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“lack of an instant text speed option”
Sounds like nitpicking to me.
mmmmmmmmmmh if you’ll install it, you’ll understand what I’m talking about
the text animation, when it’s set to relatively fast, is extremely distracting for my eyes; and slowing it down obviously makes the text appear too slowly… which is deadly to me because I find slice of life boring, and so double click it is for each new sentence :(
Other engines and renpy itself can offer better settings such as instant speed, they didn’t seem to be implemented here
Truth be told, it’s one of the handful of games that have been sitting on my desktop for, like, three years or so… and now that I’ve read this review I’m all :( about it now.
And now I get what you mean - not nitpicking, just personal preference. Then again, you mentioned something about changing the way you go about reading VNs… what happened to that?
I’m right there with you. I played this myself but I have zero memory about what happens in it. Hey, at least it was free!
ish… I read 5 minutes of it and shelved it as to read cause it looked relatively good but now I’m second guessing that choice- >_<
I mean its free but still I’m sad it wasn’t as good as I thought it would be (high ratings and friend recommendations)
It’s just I’m not a fan of slice of life and high school settings… at least this game wants to try something a little different with its execution, but I still found it boring