The Good People (Na Daoine Maithe) Reviews

While not complete yet, what's there (most of the intro and the first half of Shae and Maeve's stories) is quite enjoyable. It's about 4½ hours worth of material so far, and introduces you to the main characters. I personally really liked Maeve's story so far, great twist. The artwork is wonderful, sound and music are pretty well done as well. Not all lines are voiced, but the ones that are voiced are really well done. I like all the voice actors that I've dealt with so far. A fair bit of the dialogue uses the Irish language (I'm unsure which particular dialect), you can mouse or D-pad navigate over the word or phrase to see the meaning. If you click on it, you will bring up an a pronunciation guide with the word or phrase voiced. I really like this aspect! I played on the SteamDeck, and it ran perfectly. That said there was a bit of controller jank that I would love to see improved in a future update. The default highlight color is hard to differentiate from the background, it can be changed but it's not super easy to do so (you need to enter a hex code, there's no selector) and some accessibility options to make it easier to read on a small screen are disabled. If I select a Gaelic phrase to see the pronunciation guide or listen to it spoken, I could go back to the dialogue but was unable to controller-navigate to progress the dialogue. I had to use the touchscreen for this which I don't particularly like doing (I have an early model LCD SteamDeck with very poor touchscreen controls). Finally, it's sometimes a little hard to know how to navigate between various clickable objects with the controller (especially the options screen and the book screen). If you are using mouse inputs, you'll probably have no issue, but the SteamDeck is my preferred platform for playing visual novels and good controller support is very important to me. Overall though, aside from some technical limitations (which may be due to early access), I really enjoy the story and am really looking forward to the continuation of those paths, along with the other paths that are not present yet.

Honestly one of the better VN's I've played. I would recommend this to anyone who likes a fantasy genre type of game. Aside from that, a huge personal bonus is definitely the inclusiveness.

The storylines are captivating, the writing is eloquent, and the characters are intriguing! I can’t think of a single bad thing to say, and I’m excited for more!! 😊