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The Forgotten City
Released On: Jul 28, 2021
8.2
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Generally Favorable
Based on 226 User Ratings
8.2
77% Positive
173 Ratings
173 Ratings
18% Mixed
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5% Negative
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12 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 226 User Ratings
8.2
77% Positive
173 Ratings
173 Ratings
18% Mixed
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
5% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Criminally underrated Witcher 3 story telling meets inception in Greece.
I am not the greatest fan of ancient Greek/Rome story setting, but this game made it so interesting I stayed till 5 AM till I finished the game in at least different 3 ways.
The game is no doubt masterpiece. Clearly product of love for the few developers that worked on it.
The story, characters and dialog are well ground, fantastically delivered, and respect your critical thinking. Ending is elegant and although the plot is intricate all the loose ends are tied flawlessly.
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The most beautiful and magnificent work of art and dedication i ever seen in my 12 years of gaming truly a once in a life time masterpiece of writing and design
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I don't think it's the best one of these time loop games, but its certainly an interesting one. If you are more into the investigating aspect of these games and don't mind tons of dialog, this is the one for you.
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A timeloop-based narrative investigation game in a very cool setting, an underground roman city that lives under the following rule : "the many shall suffer for the crime of the one". If one commits a sin, the whole community dies. A crime is about to be commited and you have to resolve this mistery to get out the loop you're stuck in.
it's a really cool and original idea, the city is magnificent, the story is thrilling, the character writing is good.
The issue is that the gameplay is very basic. The story is far more linear than it first seems, the dialogues aren't so decisive, there is no real investigation system, and the combats are boring and just here to fill the gaps.
So it was cool to discover the setting, the characters, the story, but don't expect any exiting gameplay.
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Massively overrated. For a game that relies so heavily on dialogue, the dialogues themselves aren't all that good. Voice actors do their best to elevate this material, but there's only so much they can do. This game wasn't written by a professional script writer, and it clearly shows.
This whole timeloop mechanic is very tedious. I have no idea how both this game and Outer Wilds are some of the most well-received adventure games of the last five years, despite the timeloop implementation being equally as awful in both of them.
The journal is a joke. It lets you put a tracker on a quest you wanna follow, except half the time this tracker doesn't work and you have to navigate on your own. I hate this kind of approach. You either let a player track every quest or none of them. The way it's done here, it just creates confusion.
The graphics are nothing to write home about. A tad more fidelity than you'd expect from your typical indie game, but still nowhere near enough to compete with big budget contemporaries. I couldn't help but think that instead of these "pretty" graphics and fancy voice acting they could've invested more funds and effort into the actual gameplay, quests, etc. Take, for example, Age Of Decadence, which, yes, looked way behind times, but it had a much better writing, actually interesting characters, more and better quests, even more locations variety. Better score too. The soundtrack in The Forgotten City is basically just stock "ancient music" and lacks severely in originality and memorability. Once again, if we're talking smaller budget, indie titles, take something like Enderal, which had a massive 5-hour long OST with tons of memorable tunes.
Overall, this game is an admirable attempt, but still a letdown in so many ways. The developers clearly bit off more than they could chew. Perhaps they should've started with something more lowkey, prove themselves and gain more experience, before undertaking something so ambitious.
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If your bar for quality has dropped so low to the point where this is some of the best writing in gaming, please seek help or play more narrative video games.
For a game made for "Adults who like figuring things out for themselves" the mission path is extremely straight forward, and there isn't much thought required to get through the game. Just go with the blatantly obvious solutions or just cheese your way through it because the game breaks at the slightest hiccup. And aside from a single moment, nothing really feels clever. For a game with a timeloop mechanic, they do **** all to give you interesting puzzles or narrative beats to get around by using the timeloop. Most solutions basically play out with you choosing dialogue until you say the wrong thing. Then on the next loop you go back and say something different. And it's not like you really have much input either as the options are pretty rigid and several times the game would not let me say the one thing I very easily could have said to sway the conversation in my favor. It's so surface level and rigid that I can't fathom why anyone would think the dialogue or choices are interesting. I mean I literally got the "True" ending on my first run through and I didn't even feel like I did anything special to deserve it.
Speaking of the ending, the big reveals in the last act are unbearably corny and play out like something you'd probably see in a random Gmod level. And despite coming out, what, almost a decade after the mod? It still looks a plays like a skyrim mod, though I'd argue the original mod's visuals almost fit better and Skyrim's facial animations are about on par with this 2021 release. I seriously can't believe this game was made in Unreal 4. It looks like it was made Unity, by people who don't understand lighting and post processing.
I just don't understand what anyone sees in this game. The illusion of choice is paper thin, the ending is eye-roll worthy, and it's just kinda corny as a whole. The 4th wall breaking jokes are facebook level humor and having a "Karen" joke literally 2 minutes into the game does not set a great tone.
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Summary The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure game of exploration and deduction. Travel 2,000 years into the past and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies. Combat is an option, but violence will only get you so far. Only by questioning an intertwined community of colourful characters, cleverl...
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox One
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 4
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
Initial Release Date: Jul 28, 2021
Developer:
- Modern Storyteller
Publisher: Plug In Digital
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