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1348 Ex Voto Review Thread
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Gonzito
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I was able to get the game to work. The issue was that despite the game crossing the arbitrary 'ready to play' installation threshold, the game wouldn't start until it was 100% complete.
In other good news, the main character also gets a different haricut after some chapters in the game.
The bad news is that it's this fucking man-bun.
Other than that, some quick impressions.
- The biggest sin of the game is that it's boring.
- It feels like A Plague Tale style but with even less of a budget
- There is a horrendous sharpening filter on the image that can't be disabled
- The game has a single 30fps mode, no Performance. The frame rate also drops to the mid teens during cut-scenes or so it feels.
Some other screens from the game.
Giallo Corsa
Gold Member
I was able to get the game to work. The issue was that despite the game crossing the arbitrary 'ready to play' installation threshold, the game wouldn't start until it was 100% complete.
In other good news, the main character also gets a different haricut after some chapters in the game.
The bad news is that it's this fucking man-bun.
Other than that, some quick impressions.
- The biggest sin of the game is that it's boring.
- It feels like A Plague Tale style but with even less of a budget
- There is a horrendous sharpening filter on the image that can't be disabled
- The game has a single 30fps mode, no Performance. The frame rate also drops to the mid teens during cut-scenes or so it feels.
Some other screens from the game.
Gotta say, the vistas are pretty darn good looking though...
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I respect you Adam for this....damn.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Asha's balls in my throat?
Yeah, it's very plague tale-ish. That game also has 'wide linear' areas but with much better vistas and a lot less jank than this does.
uncreativename
Gold Member
I hope the art people for that game are able to find work on an actual good game next, because I still think a lot of the art looks good 
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Don't hire the writers or gameplay designers or programmers, though
.Don't hire the writers or gameplay designers or programmers, though
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Asha's balls in my throat?
I finished the game so you guys don't have to.
4 and a half hour~ ish.
The big plot twist of the game is that your lesbian girlfriend/partner is the one who orchestrated the sacking of the town that begins the game and you have to kill her at the end.
Also, many of the enemies early on in the game mistake your character for a dude with lines like "what's this boy doing here?" etc etc.
Overall, some nice UE5 led environments marred by a poorly told story, boring game play and just about 0% variety in things you do in the first 5 minutes of the game versus the last 5.
I still had more fun playing this than Crimson Desert tho.
4 and a half hour~ ish.
The big plot twist of the game is that your lesbian girlfriend/partner is the one who orchestrated the sacking of the town that begins the game and you have to kill her at the end.
Also, many of the enemies early on in the game mistake your character for a dude with lines like "what's this boy doing here?" etc etc.
Overall, some nice UE5 led environments marred by a poorly told story, boring game play and just about 0% variety in things you do in the first 5 minutes of the game versus the last 5.
I still had more fun playing this than Crimson Desert tho.
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KanKamAndNob
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StreetsofBeige
Member
I finished the game so you guys don't have to.
4 and a half hour~ ish.
Goalus
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Do you think that the game will be ported to Xbox?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Asha's balls in my throat?
Probably not, they didn't make any money on it for further development.
laynelane
Gold Member
I finished the game so you guys don't have to.
4 and a half hour~ ish.
The big plot twist of the game is that your lesbian girlfriend/partner is the one who orchestrated the sacking of the town that begins the game and you have to kill her at the end.
Also, many of the enemies early on in the game mistake your character for a dude with lines like "what's this boy doing here?" etc etc.
Overall, some nice UE5 led environments marred by a poorly told story, boring game play and just about 0% variety in things you do in the first 5 minutes of the game versus the last 5.
I still had more fun playing this than Crimson Desert tho.
Why did
the gf sack the town?
The environments look quite beautiful in your screenshots.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Asha's balls in my throat?
So it's a very half-assed story, honestly the final stuff felt like super rushed but to the best of my understanding ...
the love interest was from a poor family, while your main character is a bonafide knight and from an, assuming, better off family with a famous father. The poor love interest is about to be sold as a concubine and she secretly harbors jealousy against the hero girl because she doesn't have to do all the concubine stuff so she orchestrates the town being sacked. *How* that poor girl manages to convince brigands in the first place is never said in the game at all.
Along with the above, the game very lightly dabbles into Plague Tale style pestilence now and but that plot point doesn't go anywhere.
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And the environments do look nice at times, this is an Unreal 5 game and the stock engine effects and assets are pushing all the work. The game even has rudimentary Lumen reflections in select spaces.
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
I respect your commitment, and I'm happy that you are free to move on to something else.
Skifi28
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Curious about performance, being UE5 and all.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Asha's balls in my throat?
30fps, no performance mode, lots of drops in cut-scenes but game play seemed like it was sticking to 30 but with uneven frame pacing.
No option to disable motion blur, chormatic aberration etc either. Very bare bones in terms of options.
The options have a "cinematic" camera option, which simulates ultrawide 21 : 9, adds black bars and increases FoV.
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