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Gilded Shadows

A cyberpunk and solarpunk adventure-romance that explores a world where one side is forever day and the other, night. · By Steamberry Studio

Really good VN ! Thanks

A topic by joetjo created May 21, 2022 Views: 485 Replies: 2
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I have done 3 routes and find the game really good:

  • story ( and background ) is really interesting and quite different on each route. ( Each route I have done worth the play and that’s really good to have this different stories within this rich background ).
  • characters and MC are also very well done
  • I have find easy to read, with fun moment, fun exchange between the characters and a good balance between tension and nice moment.

It’s hard to stop :-). Congratulation to the dev team.

Additionnaly there is a rich GUI with the relationship state, the flowchart.

I minor suggestion : there is tip in the game when engaging a route but there is no tip at all when choosing the “traits” of the MC. ( This is present on the guide on itchio but I have open it only after my first play ). Note that you can check the beginning of the guide without any spoil.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback!

One of my favourite things about creating in this setting has been the variety of locations and stories I can explore. It makes writing varied routes quite a bit easier because they're exploring totally different parts of the setting with different implications for the main character.

Regarding your suggestion, I do believe a confirmation screen for the personality traits is unnecessary (the same information can be gleaned from multiple other sources, including the stat meters) and would be more difficult to make succinct and easy to digest. With (eventually) 9 characters, all of whom have different reactions to each of six traits, there's a lot of information to put on a confirmation screen for them.

I wanted to keep the customisation screens as streamlined as possible and many people prefer to choose what they want without the stress of knowing what the implications are.

So I believe for now I'll leave it as is, as it achieves what I was going for.

Thank you for your thoughts and I'm glad you're enjoying the game!

Thanks for the answer.

I agree there is a lot of hints to help on the choices ( And that’s really well done ). It’s nice to check the flowchart at the end of a chapter ).

Good luck for the extended routes :-)