Today, I’d like to recommend everyone who likes a deep and tragic story to take a look at A Story Beside.
As a disclaimer, I am 'or affiliated at all with the studio or promo. None of that. I don’t even have a yt channel to promote.
I just happened to play this game 2 years ago s’ d it still haunts me with both joy and sadness.
To make it clear how much I loved it : I played it on the high seas, finished it, knew I was never going to play it again (for me, that’s the kind of story based/narrative game you only play once), and still bought it on Steam the day after and bought it for a few friends.
While the gameplay is simple and the gfx are nothing to write home about (rpg maker), the story is superb and highly emotional. It has a simple point and click interface (definitely NOT my type of games), choices with heavy consequences and mostly non genderlocked romance, IIRC.
But what cracked my heart the most us the VA. It’s beautiful behind words, haunting and powerful. It made me understand how VA is important in a game.
So do yourself a favor and play this one of these days…
It’s rare to see a RPGmaker game with VA. I wonder how that happened. RPGmaker is the tool that you use when you don’t have money to spend on anything but still want to make a game.
You got me curious. I’ll check it one of these days. I like narrative-heavy games and it seems right up my alley.