Virginia

1. gygessgygess

   Oct 1, 2016

   10

   Wow, what an experience! I played it at a friends house, have no plans on replaying it, yet went ahead and paid for it to support what theWow, what an experience! I played it at a friends house, have no plans on replaying it, yet went ahead and paid for it to support what the devs have done here.
   
   If you're a fan of Blendo games (Gravity Bone, Thirty Flights of Loving, Quadrilateral Cowboy), but also like the thoughtfulness and drama of The Chinese Room (Dear Esther, Everybodys Gone to The Rapture) than you will love this game.
   
   Don't listen to people complaining about the game length, they really need to understand game development more. No good film or piece of music begins by setting out how long it will be. Gamers need to start thinking quality, not quantity. The two hours it takes to complete is paced perfectly, had it lasted much longer than attention would start to fade.
   
   Since there's a demo available, I'll just end off with a comment on the music. The score is fantastic, unbelievably high levels of production value, and is a step in the right direction for the industry. Play with headphones! The sountrack adds a lot of emotion, and I don't see that as a bad thing at all. You must experience it.… Expand

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2. timmytime

   Mar 4, 2017

   9

   I loved this one - tells a story with a lot of depth despite being wordless and pushes the medium. The only reason I haven't given it 10/10 isI loved this one - tells a story with a lot of depth despite being wordless and pushes the medium. The only reason I haven't given it 10/10 is I think it goes on 2 or 3 minutes too long, which may seem silly on such a short game. I think they just went a bit overboard in the non-linearity and metaphor at the end, which I understand while important and obviously part of the experiment the game is going for, made it a little less tight and focused than it could be.… Expand

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4. GrumpyReviewer

   Sep 26, 2016

   9

   This game is not for everyone. It's a strange, weird, walking simulator where you become a female officer in the FBI during the investigationThis game is not for everyone. It's a strange, weird, walking simulator where you become a female officer in the FBI during the investigation of a missing child. But, the moment you get this assignment, it's like the game pushes into a rabbit hole and it keeps getting stranger and stranger to a point where it becomes hard to see the difference between dream and reality.
   
   It does remind of David Lynch's work, like Twin Peaks. And it does have a strong cinematic feel, with you traversing bits and pieces of edited scenes, instead of a linear narrative.
   
   At the end, I was not very sure what to think. I just know that I really enjoyed it. This is a very special game, and one that should not be missed by people who enjoy this kind of game. But, like I said, it is not for everyone.… Expand

   • 5 of 11 users found this helpful
5. SuperkenGaming

   Sep 23, 2016

   6

   Virginia
   Interactive Confusion
   Virginia is a first person thriller where you play as an fbi agent during an investigation of a missingVirginia
   Interactive Confusion
   Virginia is a first person thriller where you play as an fbi agent during an investigation of a missing person….
   The game starts by telling you this story is based on true events, and a lot of weird stuff happens, so I’m not too sure how true that is..
   This game is really all over the place and I don’t even understand why some things were in the story, or why they mattered, and I came to no conclusions at the end…
   It’s really a jumbled mess…
   This isn’t so much a game as it is a 1 and a half hr long interactive movie…
   You do nothing but occasionally tap x or find an object to interact with and the story pushes on.. Or back. Or side to side. In dreams... drug trips
   Again, it jumps all over the place…
   The world in Virginia though is absolutely gorgeous…
   Easily one of the best looking games I’ve played this year...
   Walking through the small sections I did was a very enjoyable experience…
   The mood and setting fits the story perfectly…
   But again, it’s pretty hard to call this a game… any more than reading along to a mystery novel is a game...
   You don’t make choices…
   And the characters in this world don’t talk at all…
   You have to read body language to get any sense of what’s going on…
   and even then it’s still tough as there seems to be like 5 different stories going on at once, and out of order…
   Virginia is beautiful, but a mess… and not a beautiful mess…
   But I’m only 1 person... other critics seem to be in love with this game, calling it emotionally powerful and thought provoking… but I just don’t see it.
   I felt like overall this game accomplished nothing but feeling like one of the most movie like games to date, but the story and its delivery just didn’t do it for me
   I Give Virginia
   a 6.0/10… Expand

   • 3 of 6 users found this helpful
6. Gurdur

   Oct 15, 2016

   4

   Interesting story. But this is not a game. You can't affect whats happening at all, you basically just click and walk your way throughInteresting story. But this is not a game. You can't affect whats happening at all, you basically just click and walk your way through cut-scenes of a movie with below par graphics. I was very disappointed and even bored at times. Not worth the time or money. The plot would call for a decent movie though.… Expand

   • 0 of 3 users found this helpful
7. Ivan1989

   Jul 2, 2017

   1

   Lets get to point, shall we. We hear the phase, "walking simulator" allot with games like Heavy Rain, etc and others, however I think for theLets get to point, shall we. We hear the phase, "walking simulator" allot with games like Heavy Rain, etc and others, however I think for the first time, we can actually call this game an actual walking simulator. Unlike the game mentioned above, this game has no goal, no story, no voice acting, no real gameplay, nothing. Its literally just walk to a point and transition to the next scene, that's it. Virginia is an ugly mess of game with poorly designed character models, no voice acting or text to explain what the hell is going on, dumb meaningless walking gameplay, with no real story, goal or anything. It literally a game about nothing!!! Terrible, don't even think about buying this so called game, because you want find a game in it.… Expand

   • 0 of 1 users found this helpful
8. Havrepuffen

   Aug 14, 2019

   0

   Totally pointless, bad graphics, boring and confusing story. Can’t get it how this game rates so high?!

   • 0 of 0 users found this helpful

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