//SNOWFLAKE TATTOO// Reviews

I have like 6 minutes in this game and that's enough. This game is either: A: Completely stupid and makes no sense. or B: Makes perfect sense and was designed for people whose IQ is infinitely higher than mine. Either way I'll tell you right off the bat I knew I was going to hate this game, and EVEN if it has the potential to be something amazing, and even if it tells a fantastic story (hypothetically, as I'll never know) It's all ruined for me by the art. It literally hurts my eyes to look at it. It looks worse than a clumsy UI that was drawn in Microsoft Paint, and I just can't handle it. I'm sorry Rail Slave Games, I'm sorry. :(

I honestly don't know wtf is going on most of the time. It's like some sort of shooter game in wich if you shoot you're no longer able to go to that area anymore because it spreads fire in the entire room and it never dissapears. It doesn't helps when you have to just wander around waiting for some "dollsteaks" things to spawn meaning if you shoot very often you reduce the area of the map you can explore in order to find them. sometimes those dollsteaks never spawns wasting a lot health until you finally see them. If you don't shoot it starts to stack a supid ammount of enemies that will shoot at you anyways. There are also some sort of flying stuff that you're supposed to shot down to collect stuff sometimes, sometimes they don't drop shit and it wasted your limited ammo + burnt the entire place. Then there is some sort of bonus stage? where i don't know if yo have to dodge the dollsteaks this time or touch them, there is no counter or anything letting me know if it beneficts or perjudices me, tried collecting all of them but didn't show any difference from the time i dodged them all. Then there is a shop that once you there they just let you know you can't buy shit anyways, so no way to recover health you lost from the stupid ammount of enemies or the damage from your own weapon. I tried to like this but it was really

I'm playing Steam games in alphabetical order, and you can watch my review here: https://youtu.be/99SE7rF_lfs Prefer to read? //SNOWFLAKE TATTOO// is a prequel to //N.P.P.D RUSH//- The Milk Of Ultraviolet, that somehow manages to make a game with a similar premise but worse execution in almost every aspect. Firstly: AVOID THIS GAME IF YOU HAVE EPILEPSY. The screen is filled with unnecessary clutter, the font is hard to read and flashes constantly, and barely anything is explained to you. Now, this could be intentional, to make the player feel lost and confusion, much like the character in game. The problem is, it's not fun to be lost and confused. You roam around a mostly empty map, waiting for collectables to spawn at random, and then access a shop to restore health and ammo. FYI Dev, I think you forgot to give "Metal" a purpose. You can collect it, but never spend it. Also, I think you forgot about the whole "Search for and save your sister" plot, because that doesn't even get a reference at the end of the game. Even if this game was free, I would struggle to recommend it, but at $5.49CAD it's a complete rip off.

You have seen nothing and you want to see everything. You have seen everything but you have seen nothing. Your confused mind doesn't know what it's looking for, because what it's looking for confuses it. Get lost in this hard to master and very addictive trip while listening to its tech-noir atmospheric soundtrack. It's a pixellated ghett-ro game, not very graphically detailed, you'll need to use your imagination to get fully immersed in its twisted cyberpunk plot that pushes the boundaries of morality. Giving the character the opportunity to behave in many different ways (save the dolls/sell them to the abstraction/craft supplies out of them/leave them alone) without predifining which one is "right" or "wrong" is a great feature, many big games could be a lot better if they didn't design character progression with a single one way route that you have to follow to reach the "end game". End game... what *is* the end game? Is the end game the start of the game? Or is the start of the game the end game? Don't bother thinking about it, because the final conclusion would be madness, the end of everything for the start of nothing. In //SNOWFLAKE TATTOO// RailSlaveGames lets the players think for themselves, make their own judgements and act accordingly. It's up to them to decide to be a hero, a villain or something in between.

Roam around a ship while your health slowly depletes, waiting for enough collectibles to randomly appear so you can unlock the next area, then trying to find the entrance to said area before your heat meter drains and you die. It's not fun.

[b] Target Audience: [/b] [I] None [/i] [b] Summary: [/b] Well, now we know the effects of hardcore drug use over a period of time. The only thing that's redeemable about this game is a barely OK soundtrack, and that's really stretching it. The game teaches you nothing about what to do, is confusing, has a UI that will give you a headache, and really makes me wonder about the quality control (the lack of it) for the Steam platform. [b]Video Review: [/b] http://youtu.be/NSogLpg48-E [u] Lists: [/u] [b]Positives:[/b] [list] [*]Um.........the soundtrack? [/list] [b]Negatives:[/b] [list] [*] Doesn't teach you anything and expects you to figure it out. That can work for some games, not this one. [*] The UI will give you a headache. [*] Quality Control issues. [*] Gameplay is boring, not fun, and frankly is hard to classify as gameplay. [*] Seriously, the game makes me want to throw up trying to play it. [/list] [b] If you want more reviews/information regarding games I've reviewed, visit my curator. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6861768/]Dragnix Curator [/url][/b]

Similar to everything else by Rail Slave Games, it's a love-letter to 80s-era arcade style gaming with minimal explanation, and plenty of environmental/alternate storytelling. You're going to be figuring out the controls and purpose on your own, but if that as game appeals to you, can't really find anyone else doing this out there. I'm basically always on board for this team between the C64 atmosphere, the excellent sound design, and weird cyberpunk optimisery.

Another release by Rail Slave Games, Snowflake Tattoo furthers the weirdness of the developer's games. You are a human/bike/robot going around a slave ship to find 10 "dollsteak" while defeating or avoiding the robot/people things with your sentient plasma gun. Once you have that all, you can sell them to this "inter-dimensional trading post," and repeat until you find your sister lost in the slave trade. Overall, the game is pretty good, but you need to be able to dedicate yourself to finding the bits and pieces of the story if you want to understand the game. If you didn't know already, any game made by Rail Slave is gonna be weird. And you need to be ready for that if you're buying one of the games. The graphics are trippy, the stories are strange and confusing, and that's not for everyone, which is okay, but you need to know that beforehand, or else you're in for a bad time. The graphics are alright. The game is pixelated, which doesn't display too much detail, but that's alright because the whole design looks nice enough. The music is good, fitting the game well, and many other people enjoy it a lot, so nothing to complain about there. The gameplay is fun enough, with a need to keep moving while finding the dollsteak that appears throughout the map while avoiding or fighting your enemies, which also appear throughout the map. The story is a main part of the game, which you might not be able to pick up. The story really can only be found in the many thoughts and ramblings of your protagonist that appear on the bottom part of the screen. Of course, Rail Slave Games can't just lay out the story for you, that would make too much sense. In the end, you need to be prepared to play something different, although this game has much more playability than the games before. If you like spending a bit of time uncovering the secrets and story of a strange game, then dig in. If you're looking for another run-of-the-mill indie game, then turn around and don't come back, this is not for you.

The game makes no sense. It explains practically nothing, except to collect red dolls or something, and the text there is is hard to read and gives you all this story that you frankly have no reason to care about in one long paragraph. The whole thing is very confusing, and all that you do in ride around collecting coloured objects until some guy who keeps appearing on the screen tells you to leave before you freeze to death, and then you freeze to death because the game never explained how to leave. It feels like the dev was trying to make a "Whoh maaaaan, the game is like, abstract maaaaaan, you gotta experiment and see what works maaaaaaan" kind of game. Sometimes, I like that kind of stuff, but this just isn't fun. This is coming from a guy who loved Kane and Lynch 2, and WAKE. Usually my reviews are very long and detailed, but since the game just got released I wanted to get this message out quick. Maybe there's more to this game, and I might delete this review if I ever see it, but as it is, it just seems like a confusing mess to me. Want to keep updated on games I recommend? I'm a curator! https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Neonetik/curation

Railslave games returns to a gameplay akin to NPPD but with a few changes: - Graphics are worse with an overbearing UI - Shooting is done by mouse button (for a story reasons a sniper is assisting you) and feels atrocious both in terms of accuracy and firepower - To advance to the next stage you need to collect 10 dollsteak (e.g. frozen women) and then find the exact spot on the map that matches a shape in your UI once you stop and zoom out. Also there's a time limit to finding this shape. NPPD was never a good game but weird curiosity, and Snowflake Tattoo is still in that same crazy territory but far more frustrating. The game also likes to barf out dialogue into your cluttered UI constantly and the whole thing is an exercise in tedium. The music is appropriately ambient and "cold" but otherwise there's nothing of value to be found here.