Lookouts
released on Apr 01, 2022
Two lookouts meet in a desert, far from the sight of their gangs. With more in common than they could've expected, they scout out a town with rumours of gold. What will become of this fateful meeting?
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This VN is honestly my jam. Sweet story, beautiful artstyle and lovely soundtrack. If you like gay transmasc cowboys, check this out!
Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other🫡
god I gotta replay this someday, 2024-me would enjoy this so much more than 2020-me I swear, I adore the artstyle and I remember liking the main character dynamic.
Cute lil gayme about two outsiders of society finding a home within each other.
Fofa e curta VN com estilo visual e designs cativantes. Estaria interessado em um jogo completo com estes personagens e mundo.
I am not well versed in the genre of visual novels, but saw this on itch.io with the LGBT tag & thought why not? I'm LGBT, I want to become more comfortable exploring media with LGBT topics, this did not seem too long. Hence I think this could be a nice starting point getting into visual novels considering its themes.
I really vibe with the story! Albeit nothing groundbreaking (very outcasts vs. the world) the 2 main characters play off each other well & it captured/held my interest easily throughout its 2-3 hours till end credits rolled. I will also give a huge compliment to the artstyle. It does seem rugged at first glance - almost coming off hand drawn in a sketch format, but I think it works in the games favor. I'm personally a believer that the most important traits of an artstyle is that it's 1) consistent & 2) distinct. Which are 2 rules "Lookout" manage to abide by throughout.
There’s 2 things worth mentioning though. I wish the game had used a bit more time of having more music tracks present. Because there are periods where nothing is playing (not even ambient noise) & it does come off uncanny. Secondly is a thing that might be standard for VN’s & I perhaps just am not used to it, but wish there was a tad more player input expected. It’s more an interactive story than a game - which I don’t oppose because I enjoyed the story that was there, but barely any dialogue options, branching or interactivity was required (outside of reading ofc) which does disappoint me a bit.
Still a fun experience. I liked the story, characters, artstyle & setting a lot + you can perhaps make an argument that 1 of my complaints could stem from inexperience with the genre more than anything. For something that can be found for free on itch.io I enjoyed my brief time with it.
I really vibe with the story! Albeit nothing groundbreaking (very outcasts vs. the world) the 2 main characters play off each other well & it captured/held my interest easily throughout its 2-3 hours till end credits rolled. I will also give a huge compliment to the artstyle. It does seem rugged at first glance - almost coming off hand drawn in a sketch format, but I think it works in the games favor. I'm personally a believer that the most important traits of an artstyle is that it's 1) consistent & 2) distinct. Which are 2 rules "Lookout" manage to abide by throughout.
There’s 2 things worth mentioning though. I wish the game had used a bit more time of having more music tracks present. Because there are periods where nothing is playing (not even ambient noise) & it does come off uncanny. Secondly is a thing that might be standard for VN’s & I perhaps just am not used to it, but wish there was a tad more player input expected. It’s more an interactive story than a game - which I don’t oppose because I enjoyed the story that was there, but barely any dialogue options, branching or interactivity was required (outside of reading ofc) which does disappoint me a bit.
Still a fun experience. I liked the story, characters, artstyle & setting a lot + you can perhaps make an argument that 1 of my complaints could stem from inexperience with the genre more than anything. For something that can be found for free on itch.io I enjoyed my brief time with it.