The Ballad Singer Reviews

[h1]Gameplay: 3/10[/h1] [h1]Graphics & Sound: 6/10[/h1] [h1]Narration: 4/10[/h1] ✔️ The promise of playing through a story from different points of view is interesting and partly fulfilled. ✔️ The full voiceover is a nice bonus. ❌ The writing is... not great. The characters lack any kind of depth or relatable emotion, and it makes any decisions you take very superficial. ❌ A lot of decisions aren't even narrative choices but rather right & wrong choices. A lot of time, taking any decision except the "right" one just leads to your death, which limits a lot the narrative branching and makes most choices pretty bland. ❌ The decisions that ARE defining of the rest of the story often can be summed up by "do you keep going on, or do you consider this distraction to be important enough to completely drop your quest to go and take care of it instead - this is your new main quest", and it feels like lazy writing. ❌ The game has an obsession with highschool-grade riddles as artificial locks on the progression. ❌ Some encounters are reused in absolutely unrelated contexts, which dispels any illusion you may have had about a coherent worldbuilding. ❌ The user interface is awful, nothing is positionned in an intuitive manner, everything requires too many clicks to use. Nah I don't recommend it. I think purely narrative games can collect a lot of flaws before I can confidently say they are bad, but poor writing is one thing that I can't forgive.