Winter Voices Episode 1: Those Who has no name: Review

Somewhere far, far, in a large snowy valley there is a small village. People here live separately and have practically no contacts with the outside world. They trust nature more. It is she who feeds them and dresses them – the hunters here are in high esteem. Generations parents pass their knowledge, experience and skills to children. Not only about how to better drive a wild animal or what berries and roots to collect. But also about what surrounds them. After all, they believe that everything has a soul, and all, absolutely everything is filled with life, goal and meaning. And this must be treated with respect, because the rest of the people have already become confused and lost in attempts to destroy what gave rise to.

With such a baggage of knowledge, it is not easy to leave the village. It is difficult to break away from your roots and enter into a hitherto unknown, but such tempting world. Nevertheless, our heroine did just that. True, after some time she had to return. Return to where she was born and grew up to stand next to the bed on which her late father lies. Now she has to answer many questions, although most of them she asks herself. It is necessary not only to find out the circumstances of the death of the parent, but also, most importantly, to understand their own purpose. The task, I must say, is not easy.

And the game itself is generally not as simple as it seems at first glance. Do not make a very common mistake and relate to Winter voices as a mediocre casual. I hate this newfangled prefix “Indi” with pure and fierce hatred, so I just say that this is a very deep and perfectly thoughtful quest with RPG elements.

The developers of this creation are in France. Their studio is still very young (created in 2008), and all that they did before is projects in the Mmorpg genre. Winter Voices: Chapter 1 – Avalanche was the first of the seven planned episodes to go out gradually and spread through the company’s website or Steam system. These are several particles of a single whole, so the creators convincingly ask to pass them in turn, one by one, so as not to lose valuable and so difficult to understand the thread of the narrative.

The plot is here, it is worth noting, really complicated. It is immediately evident how painstaking the scriptwriters worked out the invented story. As it should be played in the adventure genre, there are a lot of dialogues here: conversations are not voiced by anyone, so users will have to do what has already ceased to be popular in modern society – a lot to read.

Moreover, you will have to not only assimilate the information received during the conversation, but also to carefully think about your own answers. The system of dialogs here is branched, and the reaction to other people’s words affects a lot. Depending on how successfully this or that conversation has passed, the heroine will receive experience points. This is where the laws of role-playing game come into force.

They meet on clothes

To begin with, the first thing we are awaiting us the customization of the main character. It will not be possible to choose the floor (according to the plot, it will be a twenty -four -year -old girl), but you can conjure over the appearance. True, first you will have to decide on the character (there will be three types of choice in total). Well, then we distribute experience points: there will be six parameters, but among them there is no usual strength for us, for example, or endurance. But there are interesting points such as humor, intuition, or, for example, memory. All these indicators will affect your ability to conduct a dialogue and the course of fighting.

Yes, in Winter voices You have to fight – but not with unprecedented monsters or monsters, but with … your own fears. These will also be doubts, fears, resentment, memories – in general, the whole emotional load with which our heroine returned to the village.

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The battles will take place in a dream and in reality – our enemies will be some intangible vague formations. They can differ from each other in size and, most importantly, by the degree of harm that they cause. But their goal is one – to use well -known spells in order to take away more life glasses from you, to completely demoralize and, accordingly, destroy.

But even the battles here are elegant and deeper than ordinary unicellular dissection. The thing is that we will have no weapon at our disposal except for learned spells. And they cause actions only a defensive nature. In other words, you will be attacked, and you, in turn, have to do it thanks to your mind and ingenuity or with a certain number of moves, or go along a given route and stay alive.

The battlefield is a terrain divided into cells. The whole process here is step -by -step – we, like opponents, have a certain number of points for the course and on the use of magic. Available witchcraft things will be opened gradually – with each new level received by our heroine.

And who said it would be easy?

Winter voices Amazingly beautiful. She is thin and elegant in everything. She has its own completely unique style and design – the developers tried not to lose sight of a single detail.

It is necessary to play subject to complete immersion in what is happening. Not knowing the language, probably, and it is not worth coming close. True, on one of the foreign sites, I met the opinion that even to translation from French into English there are a large number of complaints. Therefore, it is scary to imagine what miserable stumps of meaning and ideas we would go to us, take up adaptation of unscrupulous domestic localizers.

But if you are ready for an active mental process and thoughtful pastime behind the monitor screen, then Winter Voices: Chapter 1 – Avalanche Exactly for you. Having finished this episode, you will look forward to the release of the next – take my word.

Pros: strong plot;Stunning design;A perfectly thought out game.
Cons: Sometimes slightly tiring battles;In some places, a broken balance (at the time of delivery of the review, a patch has already been released, eliminating the problem).

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