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Morningstar: Book of the Fallen

An Urban Fantasy VN/RPG about MMA, Angels and the end of the world. · By droid productions

A quick review

A topic by HarodonRhias created Jul 09, 2023 Views: 355 Replies: 3
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Having bought Skyrim more times than I care to recall and also having sunk almost 150 hours in LoM Books 1 and 2, I figured I'd give this one a go and share my thoughts for those curious as to how droid's newest project is coming along. Having said that, here we go:

This is not just close to LoM, it's basically LoM in another setting. Same great graphics, same excellent writing, interesting lore,Technically, the game was flawless with no lags or glitches of any sort. People will have their own takes on the combat system but, as droid mentioned, it is optional. I played through once and didn't have a ton of adult content but that might just be due to how I played. The only negative things I can say about the game are that 1)you could be put off at the price for a couple hours of content and 2) I don't share droid's hard on for Katie. I hated her in LoM and I can't stand her here either. However, that in no way would impact my overall view of the game as that's a personal preference. 

Overall grade: 7/10. Excellent game, but, even on sale right now, the price is a bit too steep for the amount of content currently available.  If the game had been 20 hours long instead of 2, it would be a 9 or 9.5.

Developer

Yeah, I was considering scaling the price over time (so $5 when it's just Act 1, $10 when it's act 1 + 2, $15 when the game is complete), but it's hard to explain to the players.  The game will grown, with 5 acts planned for the book; those are of course included in the price.

There's a lot of optional content (far more than you can consume by day 16), so you can load the end of act save, and keep going. Both Lin and Snowdrop have quite long questlines.

Thank you for taking the time to reply. 

I think I can understand your potential concern as a developer; charge a lot for the whole game up front and people talk about how steep the price is for so little content, but charge by the episode and people get upset because they feel the first price should cover the whole thing. 

As for the optional content, I did play quite a bit of it, but you're so good at the story telling that the side quests, for me at least, feel.... I don't know.... filler maybe? At least at this stage of the story, Snowdrop and Lin seem like they're there just so MC's got somebody to sex. Lin has a very Jenny feel to her.

Developer

Yeah, Lin is a smarter, less head over heels Jenny :)

She wasn't actually meant to be a speaking character; like the other two gym girls she never got a talking head initially. But as I was rendering her I totally loved her look, and she convinced me to write her as a character of her own.

Snowdrop's quest-line's actually really good; it's probably my favorite so far. It starts off mindlessly enough, but it turns a little darker halfway through.