The Sin Collector: Repentless

Игрушка - немного нелинейная визуальная новелла в оригинальном сеттинге ну очень темного фентези на тему "что было бы, если бы в современном мире произошел апокалипсис, как он буквально описан в священном писании". При этом ангелы судного дня не успевают справляться с оприходованием всех восьми миллиардов грешников, а потому небесным силам понадобилась помощь аутсорсеров из людей, которых для этого наделили полубожественной силой, к которым и принадлежит главный герой. Вообще не люблю визуальные новеллы, но в этом случае игрушка подкупает потрясающе прописанной атмосферой, хорошей рисовкой и пусть и очень слабой, но вариативностью прохождения. Основной минус - практически отсутствующая концовка, по сути нам вдруг перечисляют основные выборы игрока, и дальше идут титры. Тем не менее рекомендую.

Imagine a good visual novel with interesting foreign world. In that, hypothetical, good VN a player is slowly, carefully immersed into this world. The game patiently (but not to much or it will become boring) explains how everything works, because player can only be interested in story if they understand how everything works. This game does nothing of it. You just get thrown into completely ridiculous (based on first impressions) world, get bare minimum of who are you, what are your goals, what is this place and how everything works. And that completely ruins any immersion and desire to keep playing. According to Youtube walkthrough (which is 40 minutes long by the way), I've already finished half of the game. And I have no *** idea what's going on. The world is a mess, the protagonist is boring and I don't have any connection with him, I don't care about his mission and have no idea what the *** is "Kosher" and whether I should abide by it or if I can forget about it. I've played my share of VN's, but this one is just a boring mess and I can't remember the last time I wanted to abandon the game after playing for just an hour.

The concept is as cool as it seems, worth getting just to explore. The writing is pretty good at projecting style, if the English translation is ever so slightly off at times. The game is a little on the short side (around three hours) and probably has one or two replays in it (based on how kosher/seriously you take your mission).