In this cool cyberpunk point & click adventure, in a future not too far away, one Artificial Intelligence has prevailed over all other AIs and their governments. Society has migrated to a permanently integrated reality connected to a single neural network that continuously optimizes people's experiences by processing personal data.
In VirtuaVerse you play as Nathan, an outsider still refusing to follow the system. Geared with his custom headset, he is among the few that can still switch AVR off and see reality for what truly is. The truth however is not as pretty as it once was.
The game claims itself to be a challenging point & click game, but fails to actually make it's puzzles too much of a challenge. The dual layers of reality were fun to play with and explore, but there were too many times where I knew exactly what I needed to do and figured it out quite fast.
The story was rather boring and in the end it felt like it had been a long winded road to a very boring and uninteresting ending. It was also quite predictable in some ways, but there was some interesting twists at the end as well, that made me scratch my head a little bit. The soundtrack was very nice in my opinion, but also got very repetitive quite fast when you started to linger in certain areas longer. The pixel artstyle was great and the cyberpunk feel was well implemented in it's design. Some areas were more impressive than others, but overall, it was a very visually nice pixel game.
I wouldn't say that I regret the time I spent playing this game, but I definitely would have preferred for it to be shorter in length and less repetitive. There was way too much traversing back and forth between different areas - the quick travel (which is totally not mentioned anywhere - hit M) worked pretty well for the first few sections, but some of the later ones just required crossing several long screens repeatedly, back and forth, back and forth...
In the end, I would say that this game might be a great choice for those invested in cyberpunk style and point & click games, but for someone like me who prefers a good story, this was not it. I also don't think it's a game worth 15€, despite the fact that the game takes closer to 10 hours to beat. Take it as you will!
In VirtuaVerse you play as Nathan, an outsider still refusing to follow the system. Geared with his custom headset, he is among the few that can still switch AVR off and see reality for what truly is. The truth however is not as pretty as it once was.
The game claims itself to be a challenging point & click game, but fails to actually make it's puzzles too much of a challenge. The dual layers of reality were fun to play with and explore, but there were too many times where I knew exactly what I needed to do and figured it out quite fast.
The story was rather boring and in the end it felt like it had been a long winded road to a very boring and uninteresting ending. It was also quite predictable in some ways, but there was some interesting twists at the end as well, that made me scratch my head a little bit. The soundtrack was very nice in my opinion, but also got very repetitive quite fast when you started to linger in certain areas longer. The pixel artstyle was great and the cyberpunk feel was well implemented in it's design. Some areas were more impressive than others, but overall, it was a very visually nice pixel game.
I wouldn't say that I regret the time I spent playing this game, but I definitely would have preferred for it to be shorter in length and less repetitive. There was way too much traversing back and forth between different areas - the quick travel (which is totally not mentioned anywhere - hit M) worked pretty well for the first few sections, but some of the later ones just required crossing several long screens repeatedly, back and forth, back and forth...
In the end, I would say that this game might be a great choice for those invested in cyberpunk style and point & click games, but for someone like me who prefers a good story, this was not it. I also don't think it's a game worth 15€, despite the fact that the game takes closer to 10 hours to beat. Take it as you will!