Death Live Reviews

6/10

会让你反思的作品

So, smiling..

Games are good games, but the plot is great, but the plot is too short

我人很简单，有可爱女主，剧情不会太坑就给好评。以这个价位讨论死亡这个看似沉重的主题，让你hmmmmmmm. 嘛，过关，可以 。最重要有可爱女主。 [h1]可爱94正义[/h1]

Death Live is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This e-book was slapped together with a godawfully bad Unity based Visual Novel/E-Book construction kit, so just like no professional writing took place here, no professional game development took place either, it's just a product of filling out templates in the construction kit. The artwork is likewise also asset flipped/slapped together with an Anime character image creator. There's no English translation for the E-Book, but that's ok. It turns out, the language of bad writing is universal. This e-book features a collection of badly written Chinese short stories about life and death, faithfully ripping off Japanese art styles for profit. Well, imitation is the highest form of flattery, right? Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. You can get better quality books and comics for free online or from public libraries, or from bookstores for a fraction of the price of this "game". Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games. Death Live is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the E-Book, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 9,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

Two additional stories to the anthology by Class Tangerine橘子班, starring the same heroine and side cast in both. The heroine is pretty good and not annoying, but the protagonist in both cases are not impressive. It sort of adds meaning to the plot but the experience playing becomes a chore. They are short stories (0.5~1.5h each) so you cannot expect much character development. Only has chinese subtitles, and not really what I would say be among my top recommendations but still an okay play. Global Rating: 7/10 Duration: 2~3 hours Individual Rating: Death Live: 6.5/10 Third Day in Holiday: 7.5/10