AHA-Lambda
Member
Anyone remember Republique?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/486250632/republique-by-camouflaj-logan
The 5 episode stealth adventure series that launched a Kickstarter campaign back in 2012, aiming to bring AAA quality gaming experiences to iOS. Yeah, that was now 4 years ago, man time flies!
Anyway, that game is now as of today finally complete. In fact it's even out on PS4 today too on disc.
For me at least, the game was always a bit mediocre but generally harmless. The gameplay is ultimately really basic (but it was intended for iOS originally to be fair) acting like a point and click game where you control the main character Hope, moving her between cover to avoid detection as you explore the environment. The game is way too easy as there is no penalty for being caught and the story itself was a total non starter; relegating far too much of it to audio tapes and collectibles. But I'd already bought it and I thought to finish it.
Anyway I just completed the final episode about 20 minutes ago on Steam, and wow, does it sh*t the bed in the story department here. From having almost no noteworth story at all to:
Irrational character motivations and logic
Cheap out of left field revelations
Cheap returns of characters once thought dead
Fake choices (i.e. pick one out of 3 options available. Tough, we'll just pick a 4th one for you)
And a plain unsatisfying finish to the story
I won't go into great detail for a number of reasons, namely that it's so new, and I don't have a great grasp of it myself cos of how poorly told it is, but mostly cos no one will know what I'm talking about out of context cos no one has played this thing!
Steamspy puts it at 25k owners on PC. This is 4 years post-kickstarter and after more than a year of general sale on Steam.
But even more interestingly, the steam forum page for the game today, on the launch of the final episode, is just plain barren. It has 9 new threads - 2 of them were by me.
I want to mention it cos at least to me this is probably the most embarassing, long in the tooth and botched handling of an episodic series I've played, and it's just worth highlighting for that alone. I can't think of a longer episodic release schedule except for perhaps Kentucky Route Zero, which is at least highly critically acclaimed.
Would love to hear some impressions from others who have played it, thoughts from anyone who was maybe going to get it on PS4 (all 4 of you?), and if you think I'm wrong please do call me out!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/486250632/republique-by-camouflaj-logan
The 5 episode stealth adventure series that launched a Kickstarter campaign back in 2012, aiming to bring AAA quality gaming experiences to iOS. Yeah, that was now 4 years ago, man time flies!
Anyway, that game is now as of today finally complete. In fact it's even out on PS4 today too on disc.
For me at least, the game was always a bit mediocre but generally harmless. The gameplay is ultimately really basic (but it was intended for iOS originally to be fair) acting like a point and click game where you control the main character Hope, moving her between cover to avoid detection as you explore the environment. The game is way too easy as there is no penalty for being caught and the story itself was a total non starter; relegating far too much of it to audio tapes and collectibles. But I'd already bought it and I thought to finish it.
Anyway I just completed the final episode about 20 minutes ago on Steam, and wow, does it sh*t the bed in the story department here. From having almost no noteworth story at all to:
Irrational character motivations and logic
Cheap out of left field revelations
Cheap returns of characters once thought dead
Fake choices (i.e. pick one out of 3 options available. Tough, we'll just pick a 4th one for you)
And a plain unsatisfying finish to the story
I won't go into great detail for a number of reasons, namely that it's so new, and I don't have a great grasp of it myself cos of how poorly told it is, but mostly cos no one will know what I'm talking about out of context cos no one has played this thing!
Steamspy puts it at 25k owners on PC. This is 4 years post-kickstarter and after more than a year of general sale on Steam.
But even more interestingly, the steam forum page for the game today, on the launch of the final episode, is just plain barren. It has 9 new threads - 2 of them were by me.
I want to mention it cos at least to me this is probably the most embarassing, long in the tooth and botched handling of an episodic series I've played, and it's just worth highlighting for that alone. I can't think of a longer episodic release schedule except for perhaps Kentucky Route Zero, which is at least highly critically acclaimed.
Would love to hear some impressions from others who have played it, thoughts from anyone who was maybe going to get it on PS4 (all 4 of you?), and if you think I'm wrong please do call me out!