![]() Maybe Wadjet Eye considers this part of the genre’s retro appeal, but personally I’m not a fan-and I’ve only become more spoiled in the past few years, given that Wadjet Eye’s closest competitors in this space (Nordic and Daedalic) always give you the option of revealing hot spots. ![]() Occasionally you’re going to miss an object, however, and you’ll have no recourse but to walk through each available screen and mouse over anything that looks even remotely important. The art and puzzles are both superb at walking you through puzzles intuitively, for the most part. ![]() This last item is particularly galling because it’s the source of most frustrations in Shardlight. There’s also no way to show all hotspots on a screen and avoid the need for pixel-scouring. There’s no resolution options, meaning the game runs at a baffling 1280×800 with some sweet black bars on the side. My one gripe with this game is I wish there were more graphical settings I would have loved to play this game windowed on a smaller resolution because at times it seemed stretched out a bit. The art gets better, the voicework gets better, but the games are still stuck with clumsy interfaces and awkward “action sequences” (thankfully few of them in Shardlight) and a dialogue system that seems not entirely up to the task of handling the complexity of Wadjet Eye’s stories.Īnd this is before we even get into the problems with AGS as a platform. The problem: Wadjet Eye is bumping up against the limitations of AGS, and this becomes clearer with each new release. It’s the jump-roping kids singing a nursery rhyme about the Reaper, or a train stuck out in the salt flats. It’s in the way Amy’s obsessed with classic cars, or the way a massive statue of a woman towers over the dingy marketplace where she spends most of her time. Shardlight takes the post-apocalypse-about as generic a video game setting as they come-and still manages to spin an interesting story. Last year’s Technobabylon took a smattering of old cyberpunk ideas and turned them into a strong whodunnit. If there’s one thing I admire about Wadjet Eye, it’s their propensity for building interesting worlds atop well-worn foundations. You’re not allowed to enter the church until you’re ready to die, at which point the cult will let you commune with the Reaper-a top-hat wearing fellow with a fondness for ravens. There’s never enough food, water, or vaccine to go around. The ruling Aristocrats a faceless oligarchy that controls all resources have unchallenged authority. Since then, it’s always been like this: disease, hunger, death. True to their name, they also live quite a bit better than the poor people in the muddy slums-or should I say the rebels in the muddy slums?Īnd then there’s the Reaper Cult, a sect based out of the ruins of an old church. Shardlight Game Details Title: Shardlight Genre: Adventure, Indie, RPG Developer: Wadjet Eye Games Publisher: Wadjet Eye Games Release Date: 8 March 2016 Store: Steam Game Releasers: P2P Size: 1.1 GB About Shardlight Game Shardlight is an adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world where a young woman must search for a cure to a deadly plague. Description The world ended on the day the bombs fell. These vaccines are dutifully metered out by the ruling class, the Aristocrats, all of which have taken the names of Roman Emperors-though they dress like Revolutionary War-era soldiers.
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