Return to Grace is short and unchallenging yet it's a unique and entertaining walking simulator. What puts this one ahead of the others in the genre for me is that there is a decent sci-fi story that is easy to follow along with and the fun cast of characters and dialog.
Walking sims can be a bit boring and some times tedious with how slow the main character can move and interact with their surroundings. This game has those moments of slow, tedious movement but it's countered with entertaining characters that are introduced in a unique way.
As an explorer, you find your way to an old spire and while there, you have a coms wrist computer that helps you to talk with the AI there. As the story goes, The AI characters will start combining with the others and offer new personalities to help you along the way. So while you're walking around slowly, exploring, you have all of these AI characters jabbering away and it's very fun.
A lot of the walking sims I have played in the past, I feel like they tend to leave it up to the player as to what happened and I'm a bit tired of that. This one is definitely one of those unique sci-fi stories but they at least include a few different endings that explain what is going on and what happened.
For all the great dialog and story bits, there are still moments where I wish you could skip scenes or move a little faster. The game is already pretty short (about 2 hours or so) but there are areas that I feel are padded only because of how slow the character moves. This becomes tedious when you want to see the other endings and find out there is no chapter select, so you HAVE to start the game over to do so. And as fun as the characters are, they get old after hearing it all over again a couple times to see the other endings.
One of the big take aways I have with this one though is that this feels like a game I would recommend to someone who is a big movie buff that wants to try out a game. They could finish this in one sitting, like a movie, and actually get a pretty decent experience out of it within that time frame.
Walking sims can be a bit boring and some times tedious with how slow the main character can move and interact with their surroundings. This game has those moments of slow, tedious movement but it's countered with entertaining characters that are introduced in a unique way.
As an explorer, you find your way to an old spire and while there, you have a coms wrist computer that helps you to talk with the AI there. As the story goes, The AI characters will start combining with the others and offer new personalities to help you along the way. So while you're walking around slowly, exploring, you have all of these AI characters jabbering away and it's very fun.
A lot of the walking sims I have played in the past, I feel like they tend to leave it up to the player as to what happened and I'm a bit tired of that. This one is definitely one of those unique sci-fi stories but they at least include a few different endings that explain what is going on and what happened.
For all the great dialog and story bits, there are still moments where I wish you could skip scenes or move a little faster. The game is already pretty short (about 2 hours or so) but there are areas that I feel are padded only because of how slow the character moves. This becomes tedious when you want to see the other endings and find out there is no chapter select, so you HAVE to start the game over to do so. And as fun as the characters are, they get old after hearing it all over again a couple times to see the other endings.
One of the big take aways I have with this one though is that this feels like a game I would recommend to someone who is a big movie buff that wants to try out a game. They could finish this in one sitting, like a movie, and actually get a pretty decent experience out of it within that time frame.