Tuesday, June 12

Hamsters Beware

Lock away your pets and be afraid, for your furry balls of fluff are no longer safe.

Yes, that's right; the professional bare-hand hamster crusher Tsugumi is at large:

See those devious eyebrows? Suspicious cat-like lips? Typical signs of a hamster squasher.

You've been warned.

(no I haven't snapped, if you've played that game then you'll know very well what I'm referring to)

Review Edit:
Random acts of animal cruelty aside, Ever 17: the out of infinity is actually a pretty good game.
Any fans of text based RPGs with amazingly deep storylines will fall for it like a donkey with no legs trying to climb a flight of stairs.

The sci fi-ish plot boils down to a group of people that, under strange circumstances, become trapped in a large underwater theme park installation.
As fun as that might sound on paper, things get desperate as they run out of time, and structure begins to give way with areas flooding and closing off one by one.
The setting provides the making of a huge number of situations, which is perfect because it plays out like a dating sim, with each major story path being tied to one of the mysterious girls you're trapped with.

You get to play as one of 2 guys, as a decision during the game will lock you to one of their perspectives, and the series of strange events which unfolds over the course of 7 days will be seen through their eyes.

I have only 3 gripes with Ever 17, unless you count how long the damn game is.
Firstly Coco's voice/personality drives me insane, secondly the occasional inevitable translation screw ups, and lastly some events are just plain dumb.

We'll ignore the blatant sexual innuendo scattered throughout, cause it's pretty funny at times. Pretty welcome humour for an otherwise morbid situation (a situation I have to say all the characters deal surprisingly well with, I'm surprised they don't all have pneumonia and claustrophopic hysteria by the end of it).

But that aside, it's definitely well worth playing.

I'll give it a rating of 9/10 even though I'm not a fan of text based RPGs or dating sims. The story is just that good.

Only spoiler free video I could find happens to be the opening which is kinda lame.

What's with all the german names? Who knows, that's one of the mysteries in this game full of twists and turns that you won't find an answer to.

So far I've only achieved Tsugumi's "good" ending (yes, good in quotes), and I have 14 hours on the clock. Most of the plot is still shrouded in mystery so I guess I have some work to do.

Here's a proper review if you aren't convinced.

1 comment:

Rachel said...

why the hell are they talking about pancakes in this part of the movie *flail*

i blame you >_>

and 14 hours, you're addicted *poke* =P