Recent reviews by Blue_Shayde

Honestly, well worth the couple of dollars. This little fat-tailed gecko is so darn adorable. You can observe them, pet them, cuddle them, and send them off to do things for you like collect water. It will also use the little gecko house and doll that comes with the pack. I'll see it still sleeping in the house first thing in the morning sometimes and it will step out to greet me. If not out gathering a resource, it will hang around the yard and sometimes play with the little gecko doll toy you give it. It's just a very cute(and useful) little pet to brighten your adventures.

I've only had Mishka for 7.7 hours, but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself. ಠ_ಠ

Simply put, the writing for this game was amazing. Its a seemingly convulated mess of a mystery at the start...that eventually all came together beautifully at the end. I was beyond impressed with the story. The art isn't terrible either and the music fits well. I highly recommend this. Just remember, Calix is best boi and love. <3

Amazingly good story and great characters. I can't wait for book two.

A really enjoyable story. I was so happy to finally have an epic space story to live through with choices, interesting races, romance, and not a poor clone of Mass Effect or something. I'd say my only real complaint was how abrupt the ending was, as it didn't seem to consider that while I brokered peace with the Suvarians...my hubby Krag was now a member of the Great Orrok Nation of Mars. So he still ended up living with me on Earth? I feel like we should have been allowed a bit of a blurb after the final battle to determine how we retire. I was ready to set down my DSF cap and go live with Krag on Mars. Or broker an alliance with DSF and the new Orrok Nation before retiring into my now old? husbands four strong arms. xD At least our little 4-armed rainbow baby became a Captain. (despite her Dad going rogue from the DSF??) Yeah, again, the story got cut super short and rushed at the end. But aside from that rather mute ending to the story, I did enjoy it and will be playing again for Nate's romance.

Also, I tried, but Alex/Rachel are just constantly enforcing themselves as unlikable the entire story.

10/10 Would call Manerkol adorable again. Also, Sconce Lives Matter.

Where to begin.

Ultimately, I wish I could give them a meh review, rather then a straight thumbs up or down. I really wanted to love and enjoy this title, being a fan of magic, folklore, fantasy, etc. But in the end, I've had more bad then good.

To begin with, the story at times is very dense with unfamiliar terms and strange convoluted choices. Halfway through the first chapter, it was so hard to really understand exactly what was going on and what my choice options would do that I resorted to reading the coding just to get a better idea. But even that became a convoluted mess, as the labeling for choice stats and their effects is so odd that even with the code guiding me, I never really knew what outcome I would get. A seemingly obvious devious decision (even using the term devious in its text) would fail despite my devious stat being higher then my forthright! And a choice you think would obviously boost a stat (like being compassionate), at times instead boosted ambition. Making it really hard to know what the heck result you could expect to get. Couple that with very convoluted writing at times, and by the end of the faerie merchant council, I was so tired of the story that I had to quit just to give my brain a break after realizing the story was STILL going.

(the following will contain story spoilers about certain characters. heads up...)

Then there are the really odd bugs currently going on in the story. At one point in the merchant council meeting, I was allowed to present evidence of the Knights Malleus and the spymaster's involvement with them...although I had NEVER at any point in my story up till then found, read, or discovered anything about this. So how I suddenly had this magic knowledge and physical proof, I've no clue. And instances of this and other story elements coming up that my choices had never exposed me to kept popping up.

Finally, near the end, I started running in to really odd bugs with my romance. At the time, I was romancing my ally, the Fog. Yet the code for our date seemingly forgot the aspect of reality was even a choice, and so when it went to mention their name...it was blank instead. Plus, I had chosen magic to cancel the stars, not the statue, but the date still ended with the Fog playing around the statue before we kissed? Finally, since I was romancing Mr. Fog, the code seemingly broke at the end when I discovered my betrayer...who apparently defaulted to Yuvraj, since I wasn't romancing the other three (Gove, Anf, Ethel). I'd had very min interraction with Yuvraj, and so my characters reactions to this betrayal meant seemingly nothing to me. And the fog referring to Yuvraj as my beloved was even odder, since...uh...I'm romancing you, Foggy-love. Yuvraj and I weren't even opposing each other, as I was supporting the queen and status quo anyway.

What I was more concerned about was my discovery of Gove, my dear friend, being a knight...and went to speak with him. And here the game really broke, forgetting I had just selected to meet Gove about my discovery, and again defaulted to Yuvraj. So the whole time I was supposed to be talking to Gove, it was skipping any Gove specific lines and using Yuvraj's name. I literally had to resort to reading the code...again...just to get the PROPER story elements I should have been having. (even more amusing, since I'd literally just met with Yuvraj at a hotel just before choosing to also visit Gove. xD)

So again, I really wanted to like this story...but there are just a lot of issues right now just with the flow of the story and its characters. Coupled with the almost exhausting level of trying to understand what the heck is going on, and your choices seemingly failing when they shouldn't or making no sense stat wise...I just can't give it a thumbs up.

A fun, cute little game. Great to play when you just want to relax.

This was a surprisingly good mystery story. While you have your typical cliques like jocks, nerds, etc...nothing actually felt overly stereotypical. All the characters felt real to life and had their depths. The romance was actually really well written into the story, not overtaking it but sort of flowing naturally from it. (mind you, I romanced a dead man. So from the perspective of that route, it was really well done) The story offers you the option to make things as paranormal as you like, so of course I went full paranormal and I ended up with an ending where I was very happy with the outcome of everything I did. Even moments of failure where well written and didn't break the game or make you want to restart. All in all, I give this little story a 10/10 for great characters, great choices, and great supernatural elements.

This is what I've always wanted. A medieval style city builder that lets you live as one of the people of your village, gathering resources alongside your recruited villagers and building a life. I'm far to addicted to this already. Its early access, so there are some minor bugs, but so far I'm enjoying the game and looking forward to the future.