Avis sur The Imperial Capital Burns - Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse

Story is solid, even if it has much less meaning without reading the main VN, as this is a prequel to Total Eclipse. This review is only negative for technical reasons as are described bellow. - Auto mode has only two speeds (long message, short message, so they didn't implement a way for it to scale to real message length) Thankfully most messages are voiced, so it's not that bad. - UI is made for mobile - Text color cannot be changed (so reading with blue light filters can be tedious) - Fullscreen forces 4:3 ratio ???? So I'm forced to use 3rd party software to have a borderless window instead ! - Text sometimes takes half the screen. Good for when you are far away from the screen, but you cannot customize text size. I have a hard time taking this game seriously as a PC release. It feels more like an ok at best PC port of a mobile game. The story was great, but this technical state is hardly justifiable (especially the aspect ratio problem in fullscreen). I had similar issues with the "The Day After" releases. The new engine/UI is a big step down from the last one.

Excellent prologue de Total Eclipse, marche d'ailleurs parfaitement sur Steam Deck tel quel sans rien toucher, mais un peu trop cher à mon goût pour 8h de jeu, je m'attendais à plus. Côté bonus, c'est également le désert. On peut juste choisir de rejouer au chapitre désiré une fois le jeu fini et... c'est tout. Pas de section bonus artwork ou cinématiques, rien. Je recommande ce jeu, mais si une évaluation neutre avait été possible, c'est ce que j'aurai mis.