Heart of the House Bewertungen

irgendwie ist mir dieses Choice of-Spiel durchgerutscht, denn ich habe es erst jetzt entdeckt. Um so mehr war es doch ein positive Überraschung, dass es definitiv eines der besseren dieser Sorte ist, bisher sogar in meiner Top-3. Zum Spiel: Nach einer kurzen Rückblende reist man als mehr (oder weniger) am Okkulten interessierte Person mit seinem Kollegen in ein Dorf, auf der Suche nach ihrem/seinem vermissten Onkel. Doch schon der Weg dorthin verläuft nicht ohne Unterbrechung. Insgesamt entspinnt sich dann eine sehr fesselnde Geschichte, in der man auf sehr verschiedene Charaktere trifft. Dabei schafft es das Spiel eine sehr dichte und düstere Atmosphäre zu wirken, die auch bei den Choices erhalten bleibt und nicht durch frustige Situationen gestört wird. Kleines Manko: Das Ende hätte man noch ein wenig ausführlicher gestalteten können. Aber auch so ist als Choice of-Spiel der düsteren Art absolut zu empfehlen.

Horrible writing style. I am 4h in and the protagonist fainted like 17 times, was completly overwhelmed by "mystic stuff" for around 20 times and has practically only really awkward talks to soooo mysterious people, that actually don't say anything. It is really hard for me to identiofy with such a flimsy, incompetent protagonist who can't be in control and conscious for longer than 10 minutes. I read VNs mainly as insipiration for pen & paper RPG. This VN is like a storyteller that completly railroads his players by one "mystical effect" thats unexplainable after the other. I like myself a good mystery, but if EVERYTHING is just suuuuuuper mystical and makes you faint and lose consciousness in nearly every scene at least twice, it gets boring really fast. 4h in and with one exception all the characters are hollow and self centered. They talk, but don't say anything. I think I will read further and may update my review if I do, but right now I am really let down by this one. EDIT after nearly 8h: It gets worse. Much worse. I just fainted for the 20th time. Scenes are just randomly put together without any explanation. There are huge exposition dumps that tell you nothing in the end and the descriptions just make it hard to picture the scene. Eveything is always soooo vague. Thne protagonist can't actually do much, because you ALWAYS faint, are too weak, disturbed, confused. The story just tells you: You are so confused. It doesn't explain why. No explanation but "spiritual energy". I went full on spiritual ghost person and with 80% in that stat I still faint every time without accomplyshing much. I am in I think some kind of boss fight and it is SUPER boring. You can't actually do something here and I had to stop reading out of boredom. The writing is miles away from Choice of Robots, Tin Star, Night Road or Parliament of Knives.