Adventure Time! (KR0 & The Raven)

[Joe Molotov]

It took until two days after the sale, but The Gaben finally decided to give us a decent Kentucky Route Zero sale ($12.50) and on the same day as Episode 1 of The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief hits. So as soon as I get home from work, it's gonna be on like Donkey Kong.

Hipster Indie Twee GOTY 2013 vs. Safe but Seemingly Well-Crafted Euroventure, GO GO GO!

[Tucah]

Buy KR0 people. It's a visually fantastic, fascinating, original adventure game. The worst part is the wait between episodes.

I guess I'll check out The Raven at some point.

[Cerveza mas fina]

I'd buy it but not for 12 euro.

[Himu]

I really want to play KRO.

[Joe Molotov]

I was playing The Raven this afternoon, and it was all fun and games until this happened:



Caught a piece of geometry, infinitely walking towards a pot of coffee, with no way to cancel the action or even quit the game other than just ending the process. But man, if you could only hear the music that was playing during the scene, it would be a million times funnier. 

Other than that, it was a decent game. Really easy, but that's par for the course with modern adventure games. Graphics had a cartoony look like the TellTale games, but a little bit better (not much though). Music and voice acting was okay. I liked the main character, he's kind of like a Hercule Periot if he never made his big break, and was just a constable doing boring police work into his 50's, looking for his one chance at glory.

[pilonv1]

I saw this Raven game on Steam and hoped someone bought it.

Reminds me a bit of Largo Winch

[Joe Molotov]

I beat The Raven Episode 1, but apparently I got the crap ending.

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It ends with you getting abruptly knocked unconsciousness.

[close]

According to the achievement list, there's 3 endings; Amateur, Advanced, and Master. It said I found 7 secrets, which was only enough for Amateur. I dunno how many secrets there are or what the secrets even were, but I guess if you find more you get a better ending. Kinda bullshit since it's episodic, how are supposed to know what's going in in Episode 2 if you get the crap ending of Episode 1 (since I doubt the crap ending carries over to the next episode)? Unless all three endings are actually same. I dunno, I'll just wait for a guide to play it again, or Youtube the good ending or whatever.

Also I ran into two more game-stopping bugs after the one above, so save a lot.

[Rufus]

The bugs are really unfortunate. Last adventure game I played that was kind of shoddy was Ceville, which was barely worth the trouble. Unwritten Tales was rock solid.