SLG Remix Reviews

i refuse to elaborate

just a lot of text and some 3D images

That kind of game that you send as gift to someone you hate.

The earth is 4.6 billion years old and we managed to exist at the same time as this masterpiece.

This story sounded like something I would have written in elementary school, but with curse words.

It has a good art style, just not much of a game. Cool though

I liked The Last Dogma, I like the idea of making a visual novel game for the Genesis & wanted to play that; but this, this is at best a rather mediocre horror Tumblr.

Well, this was honestly bizarre: apparently a homebrew Sega Megadrive horror game simplified into a visual novel. It's a weird, pre-rendered VN on rails and it ends with an unsatisfactory cliffhanger TEN MINUTES IN. The writing's the kind of thing I might've written when I was 9, but the ambient sounds were kind of nice. It's… pretty bad. There's scant reason to get ahold of this.

This is not a game, it's a story accompanied by background images and sound, in which you click the screen to progress through. I would call it a visual novel, except that there are no choices to be made - it is simply a story that you are told in the form of a .exe application. I guess this wouldn't be so bad if the story itself held up, but that also falls on its face. While intriguing, the storyline suffers from problems such as pacing (it sometimes jumps from one direction to another in a bit of jarring fashion, while other less-important segments will drag on for some reason), or lazy plot devices (such as the ending... no part of it in particular, really; I don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but the whole ending was some of the laziest writing I've experienced). Also, the story is a short one - you can get through the entire thing in 20-30 minutes or so, assuming that you're actually reading everything. Aside from the story, the application itself wasn't the best either. With no way to fullscreen the app (that I could see, anyways), you're left to view everything in a window that is about 1/3 of the display. Alt+Enter also didn't work. The images that accompany the story were decent, however, I felt that the images didn't change frequently enough to keep up with what the text was trying to convey. Sometimes, the story will deviate from the scene that is currently presented to you on screen, lessening the effectiveness and impact of what the text is actually saying. The sound is fine overall; the only real criticism I have in that respect was the sudden and abrupt stops to the audio that would follow a scene transition. It probably would have been a better choice to at least fade out/fade in the audio at those points, or even crossfade the two sections of audio together during the transition, rather than the abrupt ending of the audio followed by a couple seconds of silence. Ultimately, SLG Remix isn't worth what is being asked for it. 3 dollars? No way. It seems more like a class project that someone made and decided to charge money for. If you really must add this to your collection, wait for it to go on sale for 50 cents or something.

Hmmm, let's see now... Music which serves only to distract rather than immerse; retro graphics with barely a modicum of charm; writing which is mostly passable but occasionally slides into the realms of pidgin English; a visually distracting "bouncing ball" at the end of every sentence which seems to serve no purpose other than to set one's teeth on edge; one of the most abrupt climaxes in the history of "storytelling"; and the apparent inability to view the bugger in anything other than a tiny window. Why do I say "view" rather than "play", you ask? Well, as far as I can deduce, this was once an interactive novel, which they've now reduced to a mere "kinetic novel". No choices, and frankly no point to it all given how underwhelming the story and presentation are. There's a number of people in forums and reviews asking why this product was even released; why someone would strip previously-existing gameplay elements out, then put the end result up for sale on Steam. I can only think of two possibilities: either the "dev" thought it was so much of a work of art that it deserved to be more than a mere "game"; or it's a straight-up scam, designed to burn a quick hole in your wallet. I sincerely hope, for the sake of the dev's sanity, that the LATTER is in fact the case. At least it was barely fifteen minutes long. Though admittedly, if it WERE a longer story with branching choices, it might have some remote worth, as there's a couple of potentially (read: vaguely) interesting ideas at play here. As it is, this is one of the most pointless purchases you could ever make in the wild and woolly marketplace we all know and love called Steam. Oh, and what's with the f*cking title, peeps? Is there some enormously popular social phenomenon I'm unaware of called "SLG", so ubiquitous that it gets its own widely-recognised acronym?! If it's called Sacred Line Genesis Remix, then please call it that on the Store page and in the player's library. Or was this another of your grand "artistic statements" that we plebs could never hope to fathom? Eat several fat, dying dogs' d*cks, 1812 Productions. You have given new meaning to the word "exploitation". Digital Homicide would be proud (were it not for the fact that, sh*t though they were, they actually made GAMES). Verdict: 1.5/10. (PS If you enjoyed this review, feel free to check out my two Curator pages: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9284586-ReviewsJustfortheHELLofit/ http://store.steampowered.com/curator/10868048-Truly-Horrible-Horror-Games/?appid=398210 Cheers!)