It's nice to see game-makers willing to take risks. And I will say this: the cinematography is beautiful.The main character of Folio Verso game is a reporter who has been assigned to write an article on a much talked about issue. He has everything he needs to complete the task successfully: his notebook, voice recorder, photo camera, a number of characters willing to share their information with him and, of course, the player who is ready to help the main character solve the mystery.
Folio Verso provides the player with maximum opportunities to influence the behaviour and the destiny of the main character. Thus, the player can choose the questions the reporter will be asking, the answers the reporter will be giving to other characters and the reporter’s thoughts and conclusions as well. We know nothing about the main character’s temper, his moral or professional qualities, because they all depend on the player’s will. Say something rude? Flatter? Spill coffee in your opponent’s face? Fascinate the girl you liked? You can do that.
Google the issue you need, copy/paste and bring the article to your editor? Yes, it happens sometimes.
Run all over the town, interviewing everyone who knows at least something on the issue? Find out something that nobody should know? Take a risk? You can try it.
One of multiple endings provided by the game will become a decent final chapter for the novel written by the player. Pardon? You don’t like your final chapter? Well, you can always replay. There are no winners and no losers in Folio Verso. There’s only a final chapter that the player reaches through the path of his/her choice.
Yes, we think about support widescreen in future, but it's not easy.Enerccio wrote:any widescreen support?
I can survive 800x600, but 1024x768 is over my limit windowed
What? No, it's not, you can even do it in Ren'Py if you must. That said, Exhausted has a good point as well. As I see it, this really wants to be a movie but sacrifices a lot for just the sake of not being one. Typical case of "yes, you can do this this way, but why WOULD you?", reminding me of early 90s FMV games. I found the demo video a more enjoyable experience overall. VNs are pretty much built on the premise of highly-reusable graphics assets that are relatively easy to procure. If you're going out and shooting everything anyway, with all the effort that requires, why limit yourself to the VN format?PyTom wrote:Although I didn't look and see, it seems likely that this project could be multi-path. And it's hard-to-impossible to make a multipath movie.
Works both ways, my friend. Just like me thinking it's pointless is not objective truth, you liking it does not make it objectively awesome either. I can label it post-graduate hipster bullshit all I want and I wouldn't be missing the point any more than you are. In fact, now that you mention it, besides the very impressive visuals the writing seems to be pretty bullshitty to me, what little there is of it.You can label it experimental post-graduate hipster bullshit but you'd be completely missing the point. It's exactly the movie parts that pulled me in.
Oh cool, you're one of those "they don't praise me, they must be trolling" people. I'm sorry I wasted my time even bothering to say what I think.Leaden wrote:p.s. delta, pls, troll somewhere else
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