Sunset
Main game
3.03 average rating based on 29 ratings
- Developers
- Tale of Tales
- Publishers
- Tale of Tales
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How Long Is Sunset?
Worth It
This one's a slow burn, and I started to lose patience with it at points, but the characters kept me coming back. Which is impressive, considering you only see one of the characters, and even then it's in a reflection. Overall it gets a high mark from me in the deep exploration of active characters through slice-of-life, what, vignettes? It had me feeling real compassion for the characters. That earns it praise from me.
Skip this Sunset
In Sunset you play Angela Burns, an American living in a fictional Latin American country under an oppressive regime. Angela is the housekeeper for Gabriel, a powerful man in the government. Though the backdrop of civil unrest and revolution is potentially interesting, the game itself often isn't.
Sunset started out on rocky terrain by making the gameplay about housekeeping. That's not really something I want to do in my own apartment, never mind choosing to pretend to do it in a video game. The story isn't strong enough to make up for this. It takes a long time for anything interesting to happen. Days and days went by before the gameplay started integrating into the story of civil war. About an hour in, I was quite bored. Eventually, some interesting tidbits of information start appearing, but they were spread so thinly throughout the game.
The game isn't completely without charms. The voice acting is good, the music is great, and I enjoyed the increasing focus on art in the latter parts of the game. But it's just not enough. There are good things in this game, they are few and far between. Had the game been 2 hours instead of …
In Sunset you play Angela Burns, an American living in a fictional Latin American country under an oppressive regime. Angela is the housekeeper for Gabriel, a powerful man in the government. Though the backdrop of civil unrest and revolution is potentially interesting, the game itself often isn't.
Sunset started out on rocky terrain by making the gameplay about housekeeping. That's not really something I want to do in my own apartment, never mind choosing to pretend to do it in a video game. The story isn't strong enough to make up for this. It takes a long time for anything interesting to happen. Days and days went by before the gameplay started integrating into the story of civil war. About an hour in, I was quite bored. Eventually, some interesting tidbits of information start appearing, but they were spread so thinly throughout the game.
The game isn't completely without charms. The voice acting is good, the music is great, and I enjoyed the increasing focus on art in the latter parts of the game. But it's just not enough. There are good things in this game, they are few and far between. Had the game been 2 hours instead of 4, I think some of the issues could have been solved, but as it is, Sunset just wasn't an engaging experience.
deepdoop's review of Sunset
7.5/10
It's an exploration game where you don't actually leave the apartment. It's a nice take on the genre but unfortunately it gets a little repetitive doing the same kind of stuff, seeing the same area. It kind of misses the point of the genre in that sense. However, the story is worth the price of admission and makes the flaws more than forgivable.
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Reading this story about Tale of Tales makes me sad. (http://taleoftales.tumblr.com/post/122153044077/and-the-sun-sets)
One of the goals for Grouvee is to eventually be a place where indie developers can organically get their game in front of a whole bunch of people through users sharing the games that they like with their friends and the rest of the community. I heard so many good things about this game that I'm surprised it didn't do all that well. I guess I'm part of the problem since I haven't bought it yet myself.