While back I made silly decision to start reviewing all the games I play. Well I finished Winter Voices Prologue today, but I won't be writing any review for it. This is a seven episode game series and I don't feel that a review of just the prologue does any justice. Especially since since the biggest part of the game. IE. story has just started. Anyway here are my impression of the play through.

Let's just with the most obvious. This is a indie game. Artsy indie game developed by French people. Hard to top that eh? As you can see from the screenshot the art style is very stylish. It has very hand drawn look. Game can be classified as a adventure/RPG. Story is very different to any other game I ever played. Normally I am the last person to pick a female character but don't have lot of choice here. She comes across as a whiny annoying kid bit too much. Sure she has experienced her fathers death just. Strange too see a game around this kind of horrible experience. While all the internal battles she has with her memories suit the story well it doesn't make this a story I could relate to or be interesting. Even thought it's relative well written. Very different to you standard RPG. There are several things she discovers about her father and herself ,but still I am simple not interested in role-playing a 24 year female who has lost her father.

On the presentation part what I found most enjoying was the music. Some of the songs have a really heavy doom (metal) feel. Which was actually the reason why I bought this game first place. Snowy setting and that distorted guitar on the trailer. Music reminded me of early Saturnus. A fine Danish doom metal band in case you didn't know. The snowy setting also brought a slight Icewind Dale feel as well which can only be good.

 As mentioned this game is the first part of the seven episode game. Each episode going for £3.5 which is not a bad prize for one episode. Especially seeing that the prologue took 7.5h for me to finish. Next episodes are supposed to be bit shorter though. To conclude. Will I pay the next episodes? Most likely not. I really like the art style and the music and even the bizarre slow pace pacific combat is OK. It had some nice grid based strategic challenges. Biggest problem besides the sluggish pace and sobbing girl was the controls. I was facing issues multiple times where the game didn't recognize my clicks. Needed to walk to top of the screen to get to another screen but this just didn't work. Frantic clicking around the location where I needed to go helped in the end. This happened countless times and got really on my nerves.

Still really fascinating concept and I usually love indie games but this is maybe bit too odd. Even for me.