The marketing person (if they have one) should be automatically fired. I'm one of the few people who actually played both the original Pocket Mirror and Goldentraum when it got released. All I knew around September or so, was that LGTS was being made and was coming out at some point.
Then around November, I randomly check out some games, only to have my steam store randomly recommend it. It'd been out for a fricking month and I didn't hear ANYTHING about it.
I played it. It's... Fine. Around 7 or 8.
The romances were cute and well-written enough, although they all are yuri. So if you don't like that at all, F. Freya best girl
One gripe I have is that the events of a day rarely connect to the next. That's probably at least a little intentional but I think it get's a little ricilous when the townsfolk, for example, forget a giant black snake spawning from their fountain
Another is that the main character can and is. Incredibly dense, to the point of ignorance. Like when she constantly misses hints that maybe her whole deal with the devil probably has some higher price than what she's seeing
Minigames are fun except woodcutting I fricking hate it so goddamn much I swear to god.
Level design is overall better than in Pocket Mirror. Puzzle design, not so much. Too many of them are "collect thing and use on other thing". Some are pretty good though.
Ost's about on par with Pocket. It's worth a listen even if you don't buy the game.
>muh straight
You are just as mindbroken as the sort of people b***hing at them fricking over the yuri ships. The point is that BOTH outcomes ended terribly for all involved.
Astral Shift is a poster child of great aesthetics marred by infuriating gameplay. They can't design a transparent puzzle to save their lives, it's all trial and error shit. But damn, their production values are insane by RPGMaker standards.
C'mon anon. Did you get filtered by the flutes? I was stuck for half-an hour in the mirror maze, it sucked wiener
In two shoes, I liked The crow eye puzzle. Sadly as good as it got
>the main question, is it actually good?
I loved it. I'm probably biased because I'm Portuguese, but it and Pocket Mirror were pretty much my games of the year last year.
To be frank, I think they share a lot of the same flaws, like some weird puzzles that don't make much sense, the sometimes awkward English script, some incoherent/vague/left-to-interpretation plot bits. LGTS in addition has a bit of a disconnect between the day and night sections, where you can pretty much screw yourself over if you don't stock up on enough recovery items during the day. It also has more chase scenes and action puzzles than PM. The story is also less abstract and introspective than PM, but still cool.
But frick, it's such a fun roller coaster ride. Absolutely beautiful, great music and so ridiculously weeb I couldn't help but be impressed. I found all the minigames fun, I loved the resource management and I loved going around the town talking with everyone at each time step (in this regard it's a bit Falcom-esque in how NPCs have unique dialog at each step). I thoroughly recommend it and I want more people to buy it.
Easily one of my favorite releases from last year, I'm a bit biased since I love Yuri but the overall style of this game was just so good that playing it was a pleasure to the senses except for that one day with the lightning blinding you every few secs
What's really bizarre in terms of marketing is that it released with Japanese voices and songs but no Japanese text which is just really dumb since the Japanese audience would have loved a game like this and it would definitely have boosted it's popularity by a good amount.
This. This way I'm not even sure if I'm going to pirate it
But it is het.
That game is a prequel to Pocket Mirror and in the first game it's established she is marrying a guy, because you play her daughter there.
And you can choose the canon straight ending, dragging and raping that lesbo screaming into getting fricked straight.
https://i.imgur.com/prVeASO.jpg
Man, not even Yuri was enough to sell it to anyone.
Choosing to make a yuri game out of a canonically straight character is a very moronic approach. I never understood why Western devs for all their inclusivity have such a vivid hatred towards ghost star lesbians, even more so than Ganker.
>Choosing to make a yuri game out of a canonically straight character
She isn't though. Her marriage even in Pocket Mirror was explicitly a loveless one and the guy doesn't even "love" her - Ozzy placed a permanent mind rape spell on him that compels him to obsess over her despite the fact she only ever married him for his riches.
And then they seriously wonder why no one picks up their game?
Should have seen this coming with the devs exclusively working on yuri games but PM was so good that I trusted them. Never ever trust western devs, guys.
Omori was the exact opposite. I didn't trust the devs but they delivered.
Anon, if you played the first game, (and you surely haven't), then you'd know from the beginning that Rozenmarine was a moron who made a deal with an eldritch demon for something she only wanted on a shallow surface level and it cost her everything.
>Rozenmarine
I fricking knew she was the witch all along! Elise never should have let her in.
Meant Elise, but both were moronic. Elise moreso for taking the deal, but Rozenmarine for trusting Elise at all.
5 months ago
Anonymous
I don't think Rozenmarine cared what happened to her. She was all "This is what I was meant to endure!"
Although that might have something to do with her being connected to the witch of the woods, or so ending 7 says
5 months ago
Anonymous
She does seem to regret it once the 'feast' goes on for long enough though, which makes sense. Some people are all for saying they don't care what happens to them until the fate worse than death actually happens.
>muh straight
You are just as mindbroken as the sort of people b***hing at them fricking over the yuri ships. The point is that BOTH outcomes ended terribly for all involved.
As I said, you are playing a lesbian who does not get the girl, or any girl.
She ends up with a guy. This is canon. And it's even better that the lesbo is unhappy about it. Such is the fate of a freak that gets raped straight.
5 months ago
Anonymous
You do realize that Roman is a mindless huak, right? He's no longer a person with free will or self-determination - he's just a plaything who is forced to love someone who does not and will never care about him until the day he dies and is explicitly miserable but doesn't know why. Ozzy essentially turned him into his plaything just like Elise but even more overt.
The only one being raped here is the dude. If you were intelligent and not a schizo who doesn't play games, you wouldn't even be celebrating this as a "win" because you are championing the EXACT shit you claim to be fighting against - women turning men into tools for their own interests.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Don't fricking care, yuri cuck.
She marries a man. Cope and seethe about it all you want.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Not even into yuri. But glad you're such a schizo you can't even actually discuss games.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Not even into yuri.
Absolutely not fooling anyone here.
What is there to discuss?
This is a yuri bait game, I thought you homosexuals should be mad about this. But here you are.
But then again, yuri cucks were always bottom feeder.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>ESL schizo continues to have a total psychotic meltdown
Honestly, I've been on Ganker too long if I'm already used to this in every thread.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Dude you are just shooting the messenger here.
By your aggressiveness towards me, you are very aware you got fricked over despite your coping.
Even your woke devs won't give your lezzies a happy ending.
What the frick, it's out?
Is it unironically yuri? If it is, it's ruined.
Wait, I'm reading something about dating girls in it, is this serious? Please no spoilers though.
I'm disappointed. I loved pocketmirror, and I was looking forward to this. I know the dev team if full of gays but I wasn't expecting this. I may still play it but come on
It's yuri but literally none of the romantic options canonically win and get eaten by a cosmic horror and their souls tortured for eternity. Your "one true love" canonically dies since this is a prequel to PocketMirror and the MC goes on to get the riches she desired, but is doomed to a loveless marriage and will have one of her two kids given to the demon at a later date.
>Choosing to make a yuri game out of a canonically straight character
She isn't though. Her marriage even in Pocket Mirror was explicitly a loveless one and the guy doesn't even "love" her - Ozzy placed a permanent mind rape spell on him that compels him to obsess over her despite the fact she only ever married him for his riches.
I liked the game but it kind of took me out of it how absolutely dumb as a brick Elise is. It's not even like Ozzy 'tricked' her or anything plus in addition to all the golden girls who straight up pretty much imply what happens, I have no idea how she doesn't know the implication of what "Good Company" would be and do. Honestly being burned as a witch is preferably to being gigacucked for eternity as a golden prop along with your girlfriend
Elise is a moron who only cared about shallow "popularity" and "riches" without actually stopping to think for a moment about what that entails. There are some points where she briefly gets some self-awareness as to the horrible mistake she's making, but it never sticks because she's determined to get her 'wish' out of a view that she can't ever get those riches or appreciation any other way.
It really does say something that in the ending where the Saint steals her body, she just goes about Elise's life but as a nicer more stable person. Elise is such a shitty excuse for a human being that a body-stealing ancient witch can be a better and more moral version of herself.
Elise is living better than me playing kiss the rat three times a day making billions with her own house. Apparently Ozzy can't even frick with you unless you specifically enter his demonic domain. All that weird shit happening was because Walachia or something was summoned by Hans to get Elise the frick out but even then she can barely do anything and it straight up stops after a week (or you just coincidentally leave town in all the good endings so she presumably dries up). Funny to think that supernatural entities are feuding with each other though.
Should have seen this coming with the devs exclusively working on yuri games but PM was so good that I trusted them. Never ever trust western devs, guys.
Omori was the exact opposite. I didn't trust the devs but they delivered.
>tfw played Pocket Mirror but can't remember any of the plot because 80% of the puzzles made me want to drop the game
I swear I played that shit on and off for like 2 years.
At this point I don't even remember. I just recall being glad that it was all over and that whatever logic the devs used to design their game was completely alien to me. I could almost never intuit their specific solutions to problems.
My main problem was when I got stuck with low sanity for the majority of the garden level. Why the frick are sound effects connected to music?
Good game otherwise tho
I really liked the game! Like seriously it's really good. I can't praise it enough like oh my god I'm not even that bad on the Yuri thing but it was just so well done and cute. Lebkuchen best girl the story did Freya dirty by not including her as much as Leb and Rosmarie.
I'm hoping they make a physical release, I'd even take L*mited R*n. Otherwise I'll probably get it on a good enough sale, I've got too much stuff to play right now.
Yeah, first try. Possibly the easiest minigame after It's Raining Apples. Kiss the Rat was the hardest because a single mistake could cost you the S-Rank, but I think they patched it after I played it
After Thursday night, I kept hearing the masks' roars in the town during the next day. Freaky as shit after the PTSD they cause. Unfortunately it was just a bug and the next time I booted up the game they were gone. Wish it was intentional
this has insane production value to have zero fricking marketing
I saw PatStaresAt play it and he bought on a whim, it's not even his target audience
they should have sent it to some people who like these sorts of games like ManlyBadassHero or something
and of course, the main question, is it actually good?
>this has insane production value to have zero fricking marketing
Par for the course for Square Enix-published games.
THIS WAS PUBLISHED BY SQUARE ENIX???
I think even most people who played it didn't know until it showed up in their new years video
The marketing person (if they have one) should be automatically fired. I'm one of the few people who actually played both the original Pocket Mirror and Goldentraum when it got released. All I knew around September or so, was that LGTS was being made and was coming out at some point.
Then around November, I randomly check out some games, only to have my steam store randomly recommend it. It'd been out for a fricking month and I didn't hear ANYTHING about it.
I played it. It's... Fine. Around 7 or 8.
The romances were cute and well-written enough, although they all are yuri. So if you don't like that at all, F. Freya best girl
One gripe I have is that the events of a day rarely connect to the next. That's probably at least a little intentional but I think it get's a little ricilous when the townsfolk, for example, forget a giant black snake spawning from their fountain
Another is that the main character can and is. Incredibly dense, to the point of ignorance. Like when she constantly misses hints that maybe her whole deal with the devil probably has some higher price than what she's seeing
Minigames are fun except woodcutting I fricking hate it so goddamn much I swear to god.
Level design is overall better than in Pocket Mirror. Puzzle design, not so much. Too many of them are "collect thing and use on other thing". Some are pretty good though.
Ost's about on par with Pocket. It's worth a listen even if you don't buy the game.
I don't like queer shit
Don't worry, none of it is cannon.
She ends up in a straight relationship or Pocket Mirror would not have happened.
It's a yuri cuck game
>muh straight
You are just as mindbroken as the sort of people b***hing at them fricking over the yuri ships. The point is that BOTH outcomes ended terribly for all involved.
Astral Shift is a poster child of great aesthetics marred by infuriating gameplay. They can't design a transparent puzzle to save their lives, it's all trial and error shit. But damn, their production values are insane by RPGMaker standards.
C'mon anon. Did you get filtered by the flutes?
I was stuck for half-an hour in the mirror maze, it sucked wiener
In two shoes, I liked The crow eye puzzle. Sadly as good as it got
Frick yes, a LGTS thread
>the main question, is it actually good?
I loved it. I'm probably biased because I'm Portuguese, but it and Pocket Mirror were pretty much my games of the year last year.
To be frank, I think they share a lot of the same flaws, like some weird puzzles that don't make much sense, the sometimes awkward English script, some incoherent/vague/left-to-interpretation plot bits. LGTS in addition has a bit of a disconnect between the day and night sections, where you can pretty much screw yourself over if you don't stock up on enough recovery items during the day. It also has more chase scenes and action puzzles than PM. The story is also less abstract and introspective than PM, but still cool.
But frick, it's such a fun roller coaster ride. Absolutely beautiful, great music and so ridiculously weeb I couldn't help but be impressed. I found all the minigames fun, I loved the resource management and I loved going around the town talking with everyone at each time step (in this regard it's a bit Falcom-esque in how NPCs have unique dialog at each step). I thoroughly recommend it and I want more people to buy it.
>I'm Portuguese
Wait is the game Brazilian or Portuguese/Portugal?
The latter.
I see. That's cool, I'm brazilian
Easily one of my favorite releases from last year, I'm a bit biased since I love Yuri but the overall style of this game was just so good that playing it was a pleasure to the senses except for that one day with the lightning blinding you every few secs
What's really bizarre in terms of marketing is that it released with Japanese voices and songs but no Japanese text which is just really dumb since the Japanese audience would have loved a game like this and it would definitely have boosted it's popularity by a good amount.
Did it end up releasing in Japan with a translation? I saw a lot of tweets asking for it.
I would have bought it if it was het
>he wants to play as a girl and get fricked by dudes
gay
Same
This. This way I'm not even sure if I'm going to pirate it
But it is het.
That game is a prequel to Pocket Mirror and in the first game it's established she is marrying a guy, because you play her daughter there.
And you can choose the canon straight ending, dragging and raping that lesbo screaming into getting fricked straight.
Choosing to make a yuri game out of a canonically straight character is a very moronic approach. I never understood why Western devs for all their inclusivity have such a vivid hatred towards ghost star lesbians, even more so than Ganker.
>Choosing to make a yuri game out of a canonically straight character
She isn't though. Her marriage even in Pocket Mirror was explicitly a loveless one and the guy doesn't even "love" her - Ozzy placed a permanent mind rape spell on him that compels him to obsess over her despite the fact she only ever married him for his riches.
Was wax recording number 5 added with Goldentraum, or did Elise always call out for Rozenmarine in it?
Always did.
It was always the case.
Anon, if you played the first game, (and you surely haven't), then you'd know from the beginning that Rozenmarine was a moron who made a deal with an eldritch demon for something she only wanted on a shallow surface level and it cost her everything.
>Rozenmarine
I fricking knew she was the witch all along! Elise never should have let her in.
Meant Elise, but both were moronic. Elise moreso for taking the deal, but Rozenmarine for trusting Elise at all.
I don't think Rozenmarine cared what happened to her. She was all "This is what I was meant to endure!"
Although that might have something to do with her being connected to the witch of the woods, or so ending 7 says
She does seem to regret it once the 'feast' goes on for long enough though, which makes sense. Some people are all for saying they don't care what happens to them until the fate worse than death actually happens.
As I said, you are playing a lesbian who does not get the girl, or any girl.
She ends up with a guy. This is canon. And it's even better that the lesbo is unhappy about it. Such is the fate of a freak that gets raped straight.
You do realize that Roman is a mindless huak, right? He's no longer a person with free will or self-determination - he's just a plaything who is forced to love someone who does not and will never care about him until the day he dies and is explicitly miserable but doesn't know why. Ozzy essentially turned him into his plaything just like Elise but even more overt.
The only one being raped here is the dude. If you were intelligent and not a schizo who doesn't play games, you wouldn't even be celebrating this as a "win" because you are championing the EXACT shit you claim to be fighting against - women turning men into tools for their own interests.
Don't fricking care, yuri cuck.
She marries a man. Cope and seethe about it all you want.
Not even into yuri. But glad you're such a schizo you can't even actually discuss games.
>Not even into yuri.
Absolutely not fooling anyone here.
What is there to discuss?
This is a yuri bait game, I thought you homosexuals should be mad about this. But here you are.
But then again, yuri cucks were always bottom feeder.
>ESL schizo continues to have a total psychotic meltdown
Honestly, I've been on Ganker too long if I'm already used to this in every thread.
Dude you are just shooting the messenger here.
By your aggressiveness towards me, you are very aware you got fricked over despite your coping.
Even your woke devs won't give your lezzies a happy ending.
And then they seriously wonder why no one picks up their game?
Interesting, you got my attention.
pirated it and dropped it halfway through. garbage story and bad gameplay.
just go to a wiki, read up on the story and save yourself the hassle
What the frick, it's out?
Is it unironically yuri? If it is, it's ruined.
Wait, I'm reading something about dating girls in it, is this serious? Please no spoilers though.
I'm disappointed. I loved pocketmirror, and I was looking forward to this. I know the dev team if full of gays but I wasn't expecting this. I may still play it but come on
I'm curious too. It's on my radar but I'm not reading yuri trash for manchildren.
This is funny to me because I had no idea this game existed until Halloween, the day it came out, and tried it on a whim.
It's yuri but literally none of the romantic options canonically win and get eaten by a cosmic horror and their souls tortured for eternity. Your "one true love" canonically dies since this is a prequel to PocketMirror and the MC goes on to get the riches she desired, but is doomed to a loveless marriage and will have one of her two kids given to the demon at a later date.
>yuric**ts getting cucked
Picked up
I liked the game but it kind of took me out of it how absolutely dumb as a brick Elise is. It's not even like Ozzy 'tricked' her or anything plus in addition to all the golden girls who straight up pretty much imply what happens, I have no idea how she doesn't know the implication of what "Good Company" would be and do. Honestly being burned as a witch is preferably to being gigacucked for eternity as a golden prop along with your girlfriend
Elise is a moron who only cared about shallow "popularity" and "riches" without actually stopping to think for a moment about what that entails. There are some points where she briefly gets some self-awareness as to the horrible mistake she's making, but it never sticks because she's determined to get her 'wish' out of a view that she can't ever get those riches or appreciation any other way.
It really does say something that in the ending where the Saint steals her body, she just goes about Elise's life but as a nicer more stable person. Elise is such a shitty excuse for a human being that a body-stealing ancient witch can be a better and more moral version of herself.
Elise is living better than me playing kiss the rat three times a day making billions with her own house.
Apparently Ozzy can't even frick with you unless you specifically enter his demonic domain. All that weird shit happening was because Walachia or something was summoned by Hans to get Elise the frick out but even then she can barely do anything and it straight up stops after a week (or you just coincidentally leave town in all the good endings so she presumably dries up). Funny to think that supernatural entities are feuding with each other though.
I mean, he can frick with you. Not physically, (unless invited and even then not directly) but who do you think gave Elise those dreams.
Ah true, I guess that does apply, I was thinking more overtly physically but thinking about it you can still get hurt and die in the dream as well
That was because she took his red shoes
>GUYS YURI LOOK IT HAS YURI
>its once again literally fricking nothing and even the canon ending isn't yuri
>WHY DONT YURI GAMES SELL???
The art style is... not my cup of tea (read:awful)
You do not have a soul.
What is the actual gameplay like?
By day, talking to townfolk and romancing other girls while keeping your occult shit under the radar. By night, basically The Witch's House.
Flocke!
Should have seen this coming with the devs exclusively working on yuri games but PM was so good that I trusted them. Never ever trust western devs, guys.
Omori was the exact opposite. I didn't trust the devs but they delivered.
>canon ending is the bad one
Lesbians and skill issue go hand to hand
>tfw played Pocket Mirror but can't remember any of the plot because 80% of the puzzles made me want to drop the game
I swear I played that shit on and off for like 2 years.
Which puzzles filtered you? I got stuck on the first foyer for not checking the statues.
At this point I don't even remember. I just recall being glad that it was all over and that whatever logic the devs used to design their game was completely alien to me. I could almost never intuit their specific solutions to problems.
Played the demo and was bored so I ignored it like 99% of the other Nextfest demos.
This game has quite the interesting development background...
Someone who used to be involved here.
My main problem was when I got stuck with low sanity for the majority of the garden level. Why the frick are sound effects connected to music?
Good game otherwise tho
>Yuri
wow i was going to play it, but not anymore lmao
Yuyuko
The cheap deaths in Pocket Mirror made me hesitant to buy it even though I loved the demo.
I really liked the game! Like seriously it's really good. I can't praise it enough like oh my god I'm not even that bad on the Yuri thing but it was just so well done and cute. Lebkuchen best girl the story did Freya dirty by not including her as much as Leb and Rosmarie.
>Lebkuchen
Patrician taste.
I'm hoping they make a physical release, I'd even take L*mited R*n. Otherwise I'll probably get it on a good enough sale, I've got too much stuff to play right now.
Did anyone manage to get S-rank from Chop Chop Chop without Rozenmarine?
If so, how the frick
Yeah, first try. Possibly the easiest minigame after It's Raining Apples. Kiss the Rat was the hardest because a single mistake could cost you the S-Rank, but I think they patched it after I played it
>love the demo
>find out it's a prequel and it's just yuribait
lame
Didn't it sell fine, plus it's not like it had $1000000 budget. Artists are literally twittergays
Lebkuchen bro btw
After Thursday night, I kept hearing the masks' roars in the town during the next day. Freaky as shit after the PTSD they cause. Unfortunately it was just a bug and the next time I booted up the game they were gone. Wish it was intentional
Why are steamgoys so fricking moronic?
thats because yuri fricking sucks
>Man, not even Yuri was enough to sell it to anyone.
Gameplay looked like shit, is it shit?
Have it on wishlist but didnt look fun to me.