Judgement: Not Recommended
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Well, it’s a mess...
Agarta is bang average FMV game. It tells a story of international world’s best murderer/serial killer that killed 129 most powerful people in the world, including Pope. Interesting concept, isn’t it? Nah… First problem of this game – you can’t tell story of such kind with a budget of a bag of crisps and a camera. Seriously, its so cheaply made, there is like 5 main characters plus 3 extras, we supposed to believe that international killer is guarded by 2 guys in a small police precinct and when game tries to show action – it looks so poor its just sad. Come on, there is a reason why you don’t film James Cameron Avatar in a garage on a 100 bucks budget. Why devs didn’t tried to do simple revenge story instead of this overambitious crap?
Alright, I can look past cheapness of it, but story is absolute nonsense. Main hero just walks around, casually surrenders to police (why?), walks free (why?), poison some people (kinda vaguely explained, but still why?) and then it’s just ends. There is no ending, its ends with a grace of a TV that suddenly stopped working. What this was I never know. I guess you can replay it to do different choices but I doubt I will try to find out. Choices is another story, here is example - look at window or don’t look at window – wow, that choice simply blew my mind.
Also, English subtitles keep naming one of the female characters as “he” throughout the game. It was so consistent so I started to doubt myself – maybe its not a woman? This is about the only thing in this that was memorable.
Agarta is bang average FMV game. It tells a story of international world’s best murderer/serial killer that killed 129 most powerful people in the world, including Pope. Interesting concept, isn’t it? Nah… First problem of this game – you can’t tell story of such kind with a budget of a bag of crisps and a camera. Seriously, its so cheaply made, there is like 5 main characters plus 3 extras, we supposed to believe that international killer is guarded by 2 guys in a small police precinct and when game tries to show action – it looks so poor its just sad. Come on, there is a reason why you don’t film James Cameron Avatar in a garage on a 100 bucks budget. Why devs didn’t tried to do simple revenge story instead of this overambitious crap?
Alright, I can look past cheapness of it, but story is absolute nonsense. Main hero just walks around, casually surrenders to police (why?), walks free (why?), poison some people (kinda vaguely explained, but still why?) and then it’s just ends. There is no ending, its ends with a grace of a TV that suddenly stopped working. What this was I never know. I guess you can replay it to do different choices but I doubt I will try to find out. Choices is another story, here is example - look at window or don’t look at window – wow, that choice simply blew my mind.
Also, English subtitles keep naming one of the female characters as “he” throughout the game. It was so consistent so I started to doubt myself – maybe its not a woman? This is about the only thing in this that was memorable.
Review posted on 16/03/2023, 10:19:00.