Recent reviews by Napostriouf

A pretty much cute meme based interactive game about the stereotypical social annoyance phenomenon named Karen. Well, there, that's a mild version of Karen, to make us laugh about all of these ridiculous aka easily avoidable cringes entitlements situations.

A good game despites several irritants that will probably transform a part of yourself in a Karen like the annoying save system that force you to save far away from where you was before getting game over, which force you to restart the tiresome long process to play the same scene over and over until you got it right (scenes that despite all the good punch may become redundant as we already made it).

However, for the social experience aspect the game is unique in its genre and is worth every penny! Which is why I recommend it!

Edit (November 25th 2020): I've nominated this game for the OST, mainly because the ending stay in head a while after played!

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Il s'agit d'une mignonne histoire interactive basée sur cet irritant phénomène social, maintenant devenu un meme, appelé Karen. Ici, c'est une version allégée de Karen qui est présenté afin de nous faire rire de ces situations ridiculement loufoque.

Un jeu assez bien malgré quelques irritants qui feront de vous une Karen en un rien de temps, notamment, en autre, ce fameux save system qui fait que si on échoue on est obligé de se taper 100 fois la même conversation, conversation qui même si elles sont pour le moins frappantes, deviennent redondantes dû à la répétition.

Mais pour l'expérience, le jeu vaut amplement le coup et le coût parce que unique en son genre! Donc oui, je le recommande!

Modification (25 novembre 2020): J'ai nominé ce jeu pour sa soundtrack, principalement parce qu'à la fin du jeu on ne peut pas s'enlever de la tête, l'épique chanson!

Among all remake of the game Mad TV, Empire TV Tycoon is the only one that push the concept further with a more polished engine and many subtleties about real life consumers behavior!

An adventure with some visual novel elements game where you incarnate a superstar LGBT woman basketball player who is being caught in middle of scandal while being in a crucial transition.

PRO
- A good story that is not about love or being cool, seeking the mankind behavior behind the character!
- The graphics who will remind you Maniac Mansion in a good way.
- LGBT elements that is not pornography suggestive.
- The pace
- The musics are great despite some adaptive flaws (see the con)

CON
- The musics are sometimes inadequate for the scenes. By example, when our character is angry we can't fully feel it because the music brings us the downer effect of her sadness instead bringing us intensity.
- The save system. Which force you to play like if it was a rogue game, so in one shot which can prevent you from going back to see alternatives of your previous moves. On the other side this is a short story, so that's a not a big con.
- The lack of freedom when in "free roam" which make pointless that mode.

So that's a game that I liked in general and hoping to see future titles from that author again as his writing style shown to have a lot of potential.

A pathetic fast-made trolling “puzzle” game made from a Game Maker Lite (licensed for non-commercial use) whose only purpose was to mock out how easy it is to publish on steam. Avoid at any cost!

Insanely hard, but addicting bike game who'll remind you Road Rash, but seen from sky and with 3 different modes: story, challenge and arcade style!

Pros:
- Musics
- Graphic style (keep the thing simple)
- Variety of game modes
- Pace of the game
- Road Rash style fighting system (which keep things continually interactive)

Cons:
- Difficulty (whatever the mode you play the game is extremely hard since the first seconds, so you'll get frustrating hard time during the learning process)
- Light system (the problem is not with the light of the day or night, it's that our headlights are more a distraction than useful, so even at night you'll be wanting to turn it off)
- The absence of instruction/tutorial which extend for no good reasons the learning process.
- The absence of alternate graphics (despite having a wonderful graphic style everything always look the same which can be bland after a while)

Despite all these cons, once you handle the game engine the game still worth the play for its price, so yes I recommend this title!

A sympathetic story-based zombie apocalypse game about teenagers who already know their fate, but try to live it properly by ruling out their remorse! Highly recommendable for the story!

PRO:
- The story (finally a zombie apocalypse story who focuses on the psychology of the characters instead of killing ton of Zombies)
- The structure of chapter which make the story easier to follow
- The build-up of the characters
- The connected universe/story
- The price
- The length not too long, not too short (around 5.5 ~ 6.0 hours)

CON:
- The unuseful free roam that doesn't allow us to interact with anything which making us losing the pace.
- The non-custom graphic which makes the game looking generic despite having a wonderful story
- Music are sometimes not adapted to what's happening in the story
- The fact that action scenes are sometimes written instead of being graphically shown, which should be the main purpose of transposing a story in a video game. Showing visually what the text can't express.

An intelligent remake of “Les Quatre Alices” where we feel more the ASD subtleties of the characters than in the original. Of course, this interactive fiction is short but go straight to the point.

PRO
- Characters development
- The trace seems more relatable than it was in the previous version of the game because it forces our mind to create a realistic image of it. Which makes the story way more enjoyable!
- Despite the detail of ASD, the story is not too heavy, which make it easy to read.
- Multilanguage

CON
- Overly short (You'll complete it in less than one hour)
- Marketing (The marketing focus too much on the fact it was made with the engine Twine instead of focusing on the fact the story is about ASD, which I'm pretty much sure would probably interest which more people if people had a preview of the story orientation instead)

A cute but very short visual novel about a group of kids trying to defend their neighborhood against the “rift”.

PRO
- A non romantic visual novel made for the story (thing which became rare recently)
- The psychological cuteness of the characters
- Out-of-the-box environment/mindset, which despite being a very short make the story enjoyable.
- Multilanguage with good translation (which also became rare recently)

CON
- Musics sometime don't fit well the scene
- Out-of-the-script gag about music which slowing the pace of one of the crucial scene (that I won't spoil)
- Scenes are mostly abbreviated which made they are cruelly missing in-depth detail to fully immerse us in the story.

A very good story about a college student in the early 2000s who talk to a girl using an instant messenger that he liked as she's gone far away because of school. Finally, a non romantic heartbreaking story!

As the novel started by being overly cheesy early in the story, I had a bad thought about how it was about to be. But then it developed into something better than expected with several side stories that twist the things up, which make the game good and worth the price.