評論

• gamedeal user

  Nov 15, 2021

  A beautiful experience with great story, deep lore, outstanding music and artworks. The gameplay consist of planet explorations, puzzle solving, try / roll for luck mechanic tailored into this masterpiece. If you're searching for something with deep and emotional story, try this. The soundtracks are definitely worth the purchase. so if you can, get the game with it. 10/10 Absolutely Recommended.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 23, 2021

  I actually found the bulk of the game to be mediocre at best. Many of the gameplay segments come across as forced or tedious in a way that artificially extended the length of the game for the sake of simply giving you something to do. For those reasons, there were many times throughout the game where I wanted to uninstall but felt compelled to at least see it through to the ending. The last 20% of the game is satisfying for the most part. The ending is well executed enough for me to forgive the game's shortcomings. I probably won't be playing the game anytime soon and I still short of regret buying it, but I can't dislike the game for what it is.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 29, 2021

  [h1][b]”The Galaxy is Vast and Yet Fate Brings Us Together.”[/b][/h1] I’ve to admit that I never play previous title of OPUS series. Visual and soundtrack from preview are first two things that grab my attention and decide to give it a try. After the credits roll, it’s hard to describe this sleeping hit in few words, but I’m really glad to experience and cover this gem. OPUS: Echo of Starsong (EoS) is linear story-driven adventure game developed by Taiwanese team SIGONO. This subjective review is written based on version 1.4.3 which might address most previous issues. [h1]Our Name Was Known Across the Stars[/h1] EoS storytelling is strongest part and best to experience blindly from the beginning as I want to minimize the context in story section. The OPUS series shares the same universe, but each story is standalone and completion. The aftermath of galactic war caused by factions to claim ancient power of Lumen civilization, the journey of a man who intent to bring honor back to his clan by claiming Lumen cave under his name, and wandering young girl who can sense Lumen asteroids by imitating Starsongs. This is story of fate and destiny of two people echoing across solar system named Thousand Peaks. [url]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2666856624[/url] Eos is an emotional narrative of space journey and memorable casts driven by strong motive and personality. Most are mainly represented in text-based form with visual background. Various events and screenplay gives fair time to slowly build character development even the pacing is sometimes quite fast and shifts between flashback and present. You might expect foreshadowing from the prologue, but the story still has element of surprise and mysterious. It also centers on character relationship which feels much more personal and emotionally attached from the beginning to the end. Thousand Peaks is also full of different kind of people suffered or traumatized by war and mysterious of Lumen civilization. The Myrian mythology of Lumen set an interesting and complex world background that well integrates and deeply connects to the main story. Amount of information and poetry form might be overwhelming and require time to invest. Once it clicks and comes together, it genuinely feels rewarding and positively satisfying to be that way. The contrast between fantasy and sci-fi element and writing that carefully craft and merge together. The ideology of afterlife, consciousness, morality, responsibility, and life lesson are some parts I learn and appreciate from the playing the game. Those elements simply create one of most beautiful and memorable story I’ve experienced in indie title so far. [h1]The Arts of Thousand Peaks[/h1] Indie games usually take art direction in compensate for graphic quality. The game assets are simplistic and low-poly blocky artstyle, but surprisingly amazed by their complexity when it comes to Myrian architecture and spacecraft / station aesthetic that represent background history and culture of Thousand Peaks' habitants. Beautiful hand-drawn 2D illustration and composition create strong character expression and easy to follow from heartwarming to intense moment. Big props to artist and 3D team! [h1]Together with Red Chamber[/h1] EoS is a game of journey with combination of side-scrolling adventure, puzzle, and space expedition. The game shifts between different gameplay in order to refresh the change of pace and diversity. Side-scrolling section usually triggers in main story progression as player takes control of main characters and either interact environment or solve the puzzle to progress through story. [url]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2666863754[/url] Most of puzzles are tuning different Starsongs to match the pattern or interact in correct sequence. Some might require clue, but they are pretty straightforward and very forgiving. It might lack challenge in exchange for casual friendly and fitting focused narrative. Space expedition also plays a big part in EoS. Player can explore various optional places (space station, Lumen cave, and planet) to scavenge resource or gather piece of information (memories) to learn more about Thousand Peaks. However, every action costs your resource (for example: amount of fuel consumed by distance or use exploration kit for random resources). Moreover, player also encounters various events when approaching new location ranging from small decisions to roll-dice event that may cause harm to your ship. The key is to plan your route and always trade sellable items for money to repeat and expand the new area. [url]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2666868126[/url] The expedition emphasizes on preparation and resource management. It gives a strong sense of unpredictable space journey under inspiration of tabletop adventure and representation of Lumen War aftermath. [h1]A Rough Journey[/h1] Tabletop RNG element might offer an unpredictable experience in first playthrough, but it could be frustrating and create unnecessary extra layer of resource grinding or disrupt the flow of storytelling. The problem is most memory collectables are tied to specific choice (or success dice roll) in every event. The dialogue choice doesn’t completely change or impact the story other than slightly different set of conversation and achievement, making one choice is always superior to the other. The lore information you read and interpret from memories help to fulfill the whole picture of the story and I personally think it shouldn’t be messed by uncontrolled RNG event (some items can enhance luck, but worst case still happens) and choice could at least affect fate of side characters. The single-slot auto save system also means action can’t be reversed and easily to mess up. As a linear story-driven game, I could understand the purpose of creating different experience for some players, but look into some designs; it feels self-contradictory and way more punishing especially for completionist and perfect run achievement. [h1]Audio / Soundtrack[/h1] Each track in EoS are beautifully and well composed by Triodust. It has variation genre which fit each scenario or main location player are visit; sense and feeling of adventure, departure, pushing, and hope along the journey. The vocal part voiced by Cikado is also beautiful haunting especially Starsongs that the artist imitates and reflects one of main protagonist inner thoughts. Once the story and visual set up the direction, the music will do its part and exceed my expectation to emotional level. [h1]Performance / Technical Aspect[/h1] EoS is powered by Unity Engine (2019.4.3). The game runs smoothly with solid performance (Win 7, GTX 1050 Ti, 8GB RAM, 1080p resolution). Display type and resolution are only graphical option and the game doesn’t have key binding feature, but it’s doable due to its simple control scheme and friendly UI design. The game lengths between 7-10 hours on first playthrough depended on your pacing / reading and offers chapter replayablity for100% collectable. The game is functional and I haven’t encountered any game breaking bugs or crash so far. [h1]Closing[/h1] EoS holds a very special place in my heart despite some gameplay flaws (at least in my perspective). It deserves more attention and potentially can be a solid animation. If you’re looking for a touching relationship and story rich world with light element of gameplay gimmicks, Echo of Starsong is one of absolute choice of experience that might emotionally inspire you and many more. [quote][i]If you found this review helpful, please consider and give a thumb up. Any feedback / exchanging idea are appreciated.[/i][/quote]
• gamedeal user

  Dec 20, 2021

  An incredibly well made narrative experience centered about Jun's and Eda's space adventures. There's not much gameplay here since it's mostly a visual novel, but it does make a nice job at making you feel you're traveling around space discovering new strange places. It also builds its own world in a very natural way, without much exposition dumps. Very good!
• gamedeal user

  Dec 26, 2021

  So this is my first ever steam review and that's for a reason. I usually don't care enough to write a review at all even just a simple number writing with no text. However, this game it's a ride. Emotionally anyways I cried, I laughed, I got angry, I was anxious feeling my heart rate go up, and I was left in shock from a few events that end up happening. Now I just want to state the anxiety this game made me feel isn't something that I have experienced from a video game ever before. Sure other games have kept me on the edge of my seat for a variety of reasons but non quite like this. It isn't scary at all, but it still gave me the same heart pumping feeling of a big monster in say a horror game but not because there's a big scary monster. Rather you know what's going to happen or rather you know the most major thing that ends up happening from the beginning of the game. And then the game takes you on it's ride and you go through each chapter and it's parts if it's a split chapter. And with each passing chapter you know you're getting closer to that ending that you saw from the beginning. And it isn't like a good book in that you don't want it to end because you can't put it down (although it does that too), it's more so you already know the end but you don't want it to end that way. And so with every bit of emotion I had I wanted the plot to resist it's inevitable ending even though I already knew how it ends because of the characters and the world and wanting the best for each of them. I sincerely wanted for everyone to be happy in the end, and while I won't say the ending is a happy ending it's not a sad ending either, it's more bitter sweet. And so with all this being said I can't recommend this enough whether it be full price or on sale like at the time of my writing this. Please treat yourself and get this if you value good characters, story, a decent world, and an amazing emotional ride.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 28, 2022

  The overwhelmingly positive reviews are well deserved ! The world is rich, the characters are relatable, the graphics are pretty, the music works well and the gameplay is good enough (Resources management and puzzles). You basically follow Jun, Eda and Remi in a wonderful journey through the Thousand Peaks and the story is surprisingly well done with good illustrations. You will get enough quality content for the asking price even without a discount. It took me a bit less than 14 hours to finish it, which is enough for the game to tell you what it wants to. I don't plan on 100% achievements, because it is way too easy to miss stuff and the fuel management becomes a little difficult when you want to explore everything, but I enjoyed nearly every minute of it (I found a mini-game a bit annoying to perfect but that is all). In a nutshell, if you enjoy beautiful narrative games, it is an easy recommendation !
• gamedeal user

  Feb 13, 2022

  It somewhat pains me to rate this negatively because there are a lot of things I did like. The art style is beautiful, the puzzles are nice, the soundtrack is good, and the gameplay, while simple, is quite engaging. But a game like this lives and dies by its story, and while the setting is original, the characters are so paper thin and poorly characterized that the story as a whole falls flat. Character A hates Character B, which is mostly conveyed through A saying 'I hate B!' for at least 3/4 of the story, until that arc less resolves than is just forgotten. Character B immediately abandons their original quest 10% of the way into the game to follow Character C for the repeatedly stated and paper-thin reason that these people they just met 'are my family now!' This original quest is repeatedly reintroduced as a means to increase tension - will they leave? Will they stay? - but always by some other character, usually A frantically telling C that B's departure MUST be imminent. But Character B never worries. They are staying because "You are my family now!" which is, more or less, their only motivation for the remainder of the game. Character C is trying to find Character D, who in flashbacks repeatedly tells Character C to be their own person and go off on their own adventures, but, as you may now see is a repeating theme - Character C does not deviate for a moment. Character C proceeds to make dumb mistake after dumb mistake on their quest, with those rash decisions being the overwhelming driver of the plot. In a better plot, we'd have character growth. C would learn to let D go. B would actually struggle to decide between actual and found family. A would recognize their feelings towards B as coming from a place of fear as to what B would do to the relationship forged between A and C. But no, none of that happens. B abandons their family until the game is over, A hates B until it is just forgotten and C continues to try to find D to catastrophic effect. And its too bad, because, behind it there is a really neat mythology and hidden backstory to some of the characters that I kept hoping would get woven into the main plot at some point - lost heirs, prophesied reincarnations of gods... I kept pushing aside my annoyance with the plot, confident that this really cool stuff would eventually show up in later acts... but they don't. By the end of the game I was left just deeply dissatisfied by the whole experience.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 15, 2022

  Played this game for a night and a day, cried twice and missed all the classes in between. 10/10 would do that again
• gamedeal user

  Apr 9, 2022

  The epilogue rekt me with the ending song. Didn't expect it to be this good for the price. Play it
• gamedeal user

  May 2, 2022

  Begining: Why the f*ck do I want to play this game? Ending: Is this tear from my eyes?