![]() I’ve been blown away by it all over again. While the screenshots may look like a standard VN, the game itself is vastly more, not just with its RPG-like systems and ridiculously complex balancing of choices, but the far greater sense of scale, time, and significance. ![]() I feel like Scarlet Hollow is a demonstration of how the format for the visual novel is just a foundation on which so much greater can be built. That the small team behind this project is able to get more ambitious with every chapter is incredible. But this continues to be stunning, every scene hand-drawn, and while it doesn’t boast the remarkable animated dream art of Chapter 3, it’s far more detailed, displaying stunning drawings for scenes barely glimpsed at once as you play. I’m so obsessed with how intricately Scarlet Hollow crafts its narrative that I could forget to talk about its art. It’s ultimately the same game, the same scenes in a similar order, but it’s how you perceive them that so dramatically alters. Replaying the whole chapter, but changing how I ended Chapter 3, saw even more changes. ![]() One side path I took with a safe save beforehand saw the most incredibly grisly events take place, and I can’t even imagine where the story would go following them. I’m loath to deliberately see multiple paths, preferring to just play through for the sake of preserving my own experience, but for the sake of reviewing, I obviously had to check out if other options really were as divergent as they appeared, or if they were bluffs that would steer back to the same course. The horror, meanwhile, is also surprisingly variable, given how you choose to approach things. So being able to tell the character of your choice that you’re into them doesn’t feel rushed or forced - and indeed, you’re perfectly welcome not to say any such thing to anyone. An awful lot if you made one particular, game-changing decision at the end of Chapter 3. While you’ve only been in town for four days, a lot has happened to you and your group of friends.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |