Recent reviews by Kiken

Great relaxing game with beautiful models.

Dev abandoned game, now it won't even start.

Great and very well done game! RNG makes 100%'ing it a pain though.

I'm afraid I'll have to give this a thumbs down. I will say, that I really liked the story, I really got hooked by the plot, and liked probably all of the characters. The game also has a nice message about emotions.

The reason for the thumbs down is that this isn't the game I expected at all. The first tag for the game is Choices Matter. I didn't feel like my choices mattered. Not for the plot, anyway. The ending is almost completely independent from the rest of the plot. There had been a few difficult choices, but they all affect Alex's relationship with people. Relationships that I honestly didn't care much about, apart from a few. Even less so when I started suspecting that Alex could just up and leave this place at the end. Your choices change how you role-play Alex, but in the end it'll all come to the same conclusion.

This game feels rather like a graphic novel, and not like the next game in the Life is Strange franchise. As such, it definitely wouldn't have received a downvote.

Sadly not as amazing as the board game yet, but it's still in early access and I have high hopes.

One of the few multiplayer games that I love

Simply amazing. No more needs to be said.

While I would love the game to bring some kind of supernatural power akin to as in the first season, the first episode still punches hard. Many choices are difficult to make, and the story is off to a very strong start. Can't wait for the rest!

I bought this game without reading after it, expecting it to be playable since last week's release. Now, 10 days later the game will not even launch on my PC (i7 4790K, GTX 970, 12GB RAM, win 10). I had to grind launching just to get 5 mins of 'playtime' to post this.

After some research I found that the game and GeForce don't really like each other. But while GeForce had issued several patches since the game launched, the devs had kept silent and their first announcement was new content, not addressing wide-spread crashes and bugs.

With this attitude, especially after the release issues of Arkham Knight(mare), I have to put WB on the same shelf as Ubisoft, where I refuse to but any of their games at full price, let alone preorder. A shame, I was really expecting more...

My first review in five years, that's how disappointed I was with this game. I've only played through the Vampire game and will not even attempt the Mage story. The list of the good things in the game is rather short. I liked how the whole story went down through texts, though I'd rather imagine this style as the prologue of a game that introduces you to the world.

And now the reason of the thumbs down:
The story is very confusing at first (or maybe it was just me who couldn't catch up).
There's no indication on what consequences your actions have. I had the option to stay hiding in a car's trunk or go out and meet someone. Having paranoia taken over, I choose to stay hidden; then die. No explanation, just restarting the story from a few messages earlier. Throughout the game I either felt my choices made no impact or was not given any clues on how to procced and had to go with trial and error.
A minor issue is that only partial answers can be seen if a choice text if too long, not the whole text you're about to send.
I also didn't feel like the fight in the end came across well in this text messaging format. Up until then it was 'real time' texts, then for the fight it suddenly changed tone as if the fight had already happened and you were just telling the story to someone (which wouldn't be an issue, but there was no transition between the two).
And finally, while I find the texting story and at first being clueless about vampires great, I had issues with how the game was presented. I found the most part of the game rather boring. When the story catches up and you start figuring out what's going on, the important random trial and error deaths ruin it.

All in all, if you're expecting a deep, intricate Vampire game, stay away from it.