Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood’s End
//this review has spoilers. be cautious
This is by far one of the best games I ever played. This goes for the whole series - The first game was amazing on its own. I always enjoy games that make a special connection between player and character. The second was beautiful in its own right. But this? This is by far the best out of the three.
This game was everything I had hoped for. An amazing story. An amazing story is important, and in my opinion something that goes towards an amazing story is the impact on the player. Make the player feel something. This game did exactly that. I felt sorry. I felt happy. I fell in love with each character, even if they had little time on screen. It especially hit me when characters died. I know that you can’t control what characters die, usually, and that usually helps me get over deaths in media, but I still felt bad for the characters when I saw them come to their untimely demise. Vincent, for example. Right after Vincent died, I nearly cried. His familiar face from the earlier installment helped with that. I had quite liked Vincent, or C for familiarity sake. I could see a lot of myself in him, especially now, since I often make characters and write stories. When I saw Vincent die, well, yeah. Other than that, I felt extremely bad for Charles. Watching your friend, your idol die right in front of you when they wanted to die WITH you. The things with Scarlett made me feel terrible for him as well, and when the scene with his mother happened, well, lets say I did not handle that very well. That’s what makes a good story, to me. An impact on the player. I started caring for the characters very much. At the end of the game, after the scene with the TV, I felt appreciated. I felt like I had actually done good for the characters, all by choosing to smash that TV. I cared for these characters, and this game made me feel a lot coming out of it. I felt vaguely happy. Happy that I had done something. But, other than that, I was happy for the characters. They really had gained true freedom.
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game
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I completed this awhile ago and couldn’t really accurately write down my feelings. I was an absolute fool and marathoned all the Hello Charlotte games back to back. Considering I have severe depression, PTSD, and other mental illnesses you don’t need to know, that combination at times had a negative effect on me. So I guess I’ll mention right now if you’re riding on the coat tails of Episode 2, take a step back. Take a day or two at least to calm down, because I was feeling nearly suicidal at certain points, though that’s my own mentality to blame. This is definitely not the type of game to play when you’re feeling depressed. It’s understandable that in a state of depression you might want to play depressing games, but I think we as a species want our fiction to, at least usually, give us the message that things will be better, so for a game to say things won’t be better can really hurt. That’s why i’m saying take this when you’re not super depressed. Try to calm yourself before playing it, or play with a friend or something to lessen the blows you might take.
– Real player with 17.1 hrs in game
The ER: Patient Typhon
The ER: Patient Typhon is a documentary about what happens when you decide to be a tourist and why you should stay home. It accurately portrays the events that happen to every tourist out there where you’ll get into a horrible accident, lose your limbs, and get caught up in some Resident Evil Silent Hill situation and become glad you never skipped leg day.
So if you’re stuck inside and want to feel what’s this like, this is the game for you. Also I should note, you in fact can Pet The Dog.
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game
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Great game, I recommend it to any indie horror game player, the story keeps you engaged, puzzles are more or less easy to solve, the setting is really interesting, and giving me a “The suffering” vibes, only instead of a prison island you are in a hospital chased by monsters.
The ER: patient typhon has multiple endings, so it has replay value as well.
The only downside is your character moves very slow, and for a first try, that’s all right, but on multiple plays, it feels like it takes forever to go from A to B, and you can’t skip any dialogue options, which is, ok for a first play, but on another play through it’s just, not what you want to do.
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
The Nose
The game has a catalogue of problems, which severely detract from it’s interesting premise and presentation. First of all, the English translation is awful, both in the fact that it consistently gramatically incorrect and sometimes incoherent. This is not helped by the fact that the voices characters have are indistinguishable, and badly written, with them swaying between “archaic” language and “modern.” Characters also speak horribly artificially, with them referring to each other with full names and statements that make no sense for the character to be saying, as the developer pains himself to try and emphasise this is old russia. The story as a whole is badly told, as between the narrator and the characters, it is almost entirely told, not shown, which is just an awful way to tell a story in any medium, never mind an interactive one that has a dreadful translation. The developer is a Turk, so the turkish language might be better.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
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Psychiatrist Simulator
You will probably need a real psychiatrist appointment after playing this game :).
Game description:
Psychiatrist Simulator allows you to wear the skin of a real psychiatrist with patients that have real problems.
Like a doctor, you will need to try to take care of every patient that visits you, by understanding their issues through a Q&A system.
You will decide what to do with your patient - schedule a new appointment, decide if you will prescribe them meds or send them to the asylum - it’s up to you.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
I honestly don’t know if I have been trolled or not with this game.. I would not buy this game.. It had potential, but I don’t know if this is a joke game or not.. I would like to note that I played through the full 14 days – if I’m going to review a game – I am going to play through the whole thing – it took 3 hours – 3 hours I will never get back – I am legit mad!
First and foremost I feel as though there should be trigger warnings in the loading screen – there are comments about telling a client to go kill themselves, there are real pictures of people who have cut themselves, some of the options that you are given as the psyche are really quite disturbing.. On the other hand of this – I guess it’s an alright tool to learn a little bit about mental health disorders and how it can affect people – I mean, these are very much exaggerated stories, and I guess these people are probably not acting like that out in the real world – but you learn a bit – I guess – trying to find some positivity here! I can see though, that research has been made when it comes to the diagnoses and the medication required to help the treatment of those diagnoses.. YES A PLUS! But even if you think you have the right stuff, people are apparently still going to kill themselves in the end – even the ones you put into the mental hospital..
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
The Detective Chapters: Part One
Really enjoyed the overall story. Like the whole Goth thing that you got going here - loved those clubs back in the 80s and 90s. Except for a couple minor crashes that I was able to recover from that game is excellent and has promise. Wish there was more to the chapter but looking forward to the next!
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
The time I spent with The Detective Chapters: Part One mostly consisted of the playable character getting stuck on small objects I accidentally knocked over, trying the find my lost cursor, and physically writing down binary to solve a puzzle. That all came to a halt when the game got stuck 3 separate times on a day transition card reading “October 7th 2016”. From the very little I got to experience, this game feels as if it’s still a rough draft. If you decide to give The Detective Chapters a shot, you should do so in the ridiculously awesome early 2000’s graphic setting.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
The Hunter’s Journals - Blissful Ignorance
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything - Albert Einstein
Grindwheel Games' text-based CYOA trilogy of The Hunter’s Journals rolls onward with The Hunter hired to solve the mystery behind the afflictions occurring at a Monastery; a challenge that not only will test the Hunter’s prowess but also will require scaling a dangerous Mountain in harsh weather conditions and a threat of Harpy’s along the way.
As with the earlier Journals, the game design cleverly mimics a book in its appearance and layout while also portraying glorious Lovecraftian artwork among its ‘pages’. There is also the options of VA, music/sound effects and a Gallery complete with lore, unlocked artwork and a history of this ‘Universe’. The writing style is once more beautifully descriptive and keeps the attention span of the Player by adding choice elements and challenges throughout the story progress.
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game
Senscape recommends The Hunter’s Journal: Blissful Ignorance
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Story
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Characters
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Graphics
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Game length, many hours of replay value
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It is a smart game, requires a mature vocabulary.
“You are the hero”.
Or not.
It all depends on the choices you make.
You receive an urgent dispatch for help lacking information about what you face; you are unable to properly prepare because of this lack of information so you are going in blind and must earn things as you progress.
This is about choice and you may or may not succeed in building your strength and weaponry up by the time you meet your strongest foes beyond the village of Pilgrim’s Progress.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
The Hunter’s Journals - Vile Philosophy
The voice-over for the Lady of Blades is oddly enticing.
Jokes aside, this choose-your-own-adventure styled visual novel was an engaging playthrough.
– Real player with 146.1 hrs in game
_“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain
in the world had found a voice” - H G Wells_
Grindwheel Games and the whole design/dev team have devised a thrilling second release to the Hunter’s Journals CYOA series. By keeping to the same design layout of imitating a book (that’s complete with the red ribbon for authenticity!) it helps breed familiarity knowing you can jump straight into the Adventure without having to adjust.
The artwork grabs your attention with it’s bright, lively colours and originality while the music & effects set a smooth ambience letting you focus on the tale’s journey.
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1
Cepheus Protocol: Anthology is a linear prose, visual novel.
Experience the outbreak of the Pangu Virus from multiple perspectives as the brave heroes of the Center for Epidemic Research and Control battle tirelessly to stop the spread of a cataclysmic alien virus that has mutated innocent people into monstrous creatures of unimaginable power with a single-minded goal spread.
Told from various perspectives of the outbreak, before and during, discover how the Pangu Virus was discovered, what led to the creation of the C.E.R.C., how the virus came to American shores, and who is Patient Zero. As the outbreak spreads, millions of innocent lives hang in the balance. Every day, the virus becomes more virulent as it progresses to its true nature.
Faced with a threat it was never meant to fight will the heroes of the C.E.R.C. be strong enough to save not just a city but prevent the extinction of the human race? See for yourself in this eye-catching visual novel that allows you to explore Cepheus Protocol"s frightening events like never before.
Haunted by Evil
«Haunted by Evil» — is a psycho-intellectual horror about a man who fights nightmares in reality using his madness and weapons.
This game contains 5 episodes.
Episode 1 - coming soon.
Episode 2 - TBD.
Episode 3 - TBD.
Episode 4 - TBD.
Episode 5 - TBD.
Plunge into a mysterious world of an imaginary city, Summerveil, in Eastern Virginia (USA).
Patrick has been seeing more and more nightmares recently. The last one was such a real nightmare that he woke up covered in bruises and scratches.
Patrick is a usual frontend developer at the IT company U.I.T.S. He constantly works overtime. He suspects that maybe he just needs a usual vacation to come around. He thinks that all the nightmares may be a sort of mental disorder and the wounds are the result of his uncontrolled movement while sleeping.
But the events become more terrifying when a long forgotten unsolved case about people disappearing becomes known. Patrick starts seeing things that people in their right mind can’t see. Is it a usual schizophrenia or interference of some evil forces?
You have to deal with these events as well as decide your fate and a lot of other people’s fates in Summerveil and maybe in the whole world…
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Plunge into an uneasy life of the IT worker who rents a flat on the city outskirts;
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Get to know your colleagues more, team up solving tasks at work and get on well with them outside of work;
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Investigate every corner of mysterious and at the first sight unremarkable city Summerveil;
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Try not to lose your sanity while fighting with your and other people’s nightmares;
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Fight a huge number of monsters in extensive/large/wide/huge worlds;
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Solve a lot of puzzles to find your way out of nightmares;
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Try to find out if somebody is behind these mysterious events…
It’s all in your hands!
Features:
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Fascinating and exciting plot;
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Travelling into your personal nightmares and other people’s nightmares;
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Unique system of character’s “sanity” which will make your game more difficult or maybe you’ll get some benefit out of it;
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A huge variety of monsters and their special features which also include behaviour;
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Weapon range for fighting evil forces;
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Influence on other people’s fates and the change of story because of your choice while playing;
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Wonderful music and sound effects that emphasize game’s atmosphere and range from emotional to terrifying.
Maska’s Masks
A STORY THAT SEEMS A LITTLE RIDICULOUS
As Ayr’s hallucinations grow worse, his quiet routine is broken.The appearance of the mysterious man maska gave him a new hope, he was forced through maska’s masks gradually in-depth understanding of the surrounding characters and events, hoping to return to the original quiet life.
The brother and sister that destiny joins, the illusion that emerges ceaselessly and weird masks…What is the true face of mysterious person maska after all? Here, players will explore dreams, illusions, absurdity and reality with Ayr.
Can he find the truth? Or the truth doesn’t exist.
Gameplay
This is a narrative based game, the process of play will have to solve the puzzle and other elements to promote the development of the plot.
EPISODES
A trial demo (including the beginning of the first episode) will be released before the release of the game. The game itself is the first episode, and the subsequent episodes will be released in the form of DLC.