Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel Reviews

deffinately a mindfuck. the visual style looks like a cross between early C64 and VGA graphics, with changing color schemes. the story really follows the logic of a dream, so that your choices really change the dynamics of the story and sometimes the world around you. looking for adventure? escape? safty in the usual or danger in a world beyond? just be carefull what you wish for. and just like a dream, if you go too deep, it just might end before you really want it too. granted a few of the endings are shit, but its all a very good read. please HAVE PATIANCE

very atmospheric and interesting was immediately pulled into the gameplay the save features are great def worth the buy

I bought this for the artstyle, but by-god I cannot understand what is happening. That's from both the terrible english, and how I assume it's supposed to seem dream-like I'm sure if I knew more russian than сука блядь, I'd enjoy myself, but you should not buy this until they fix the translation.

Game ended too quickly. I sat and spoke with the statue of Lady Alanis for the entire duration and then it just ended with us looking at the moon with a very vague story. I thought I would be able to proceed after our discussion but no, this was not the case. The verbiage is clearly written by a foreigner as a lot the writing required decyphering.

I have played a lot of visual novels in my life. If I had to recommend a VN to someone who was into themes such as cyberpunk, it would definitely not be this one. The english translation isn't that great, but it's not hard to follow. For such an experimental game like this, you really need to have a good translation so that people can comprehend what's going on and get a feel for the atmosphere. Since the game is originally made in Russian, I would have probably enjoyed it more if I knew it. What bothers me the most is that this is not a full game, but a demo. You can beat this game in less than 30 minutes if you aren't aiming to get the other endings. Even so it's not really worth it since when you get to them, it just ends right there and brings you back to the main menu with no explanation whatsoever. You get no satisfaction out of it. A game like this should not cost money, but be for free instead. It honestly feels like I just payed money to play a demo for an upcoming visual novel, and it wasn't even that good.

Played this a while ago and loved it. I don't remember many specifics of the story but the mood it put me in is still very vivid. Amazing where a lo-fi collage of stock material can take you, it really put strong images of places in my head with just super pixelated material. The broken english just added one more layer of strangeness that personally I found added to the experience. A lot of people may be turned off by it, understandably, but everything here is right up my alley and I wish there were more art games like this. I tried to see what else the creator has done, but couldn't find anything at the time. Anyway, if you like to explore strange places and can let yourself go not knowing exactly what's going on, definitely try it out!

Broken english simulator 2016. This is an eclectic, off the beaten path kind of game - if you dont mind reading A LOT, and have the patience, this is pretty interesting; if only for its efforts to be something new. Think - goosebumps choose your own adventure with late 80's PC graphics and broken english.