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The Red Strings Club
Released On: Jan 22, 2018
80
7.6
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 Critic Reviews
80
74% Positive
37 Reviews
37 Reviews
16% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 Critic Reviews
80
74% Positive
37 Reviews
37 Reviews
16% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The Red Strings Club is a game with refined dialogue and sublimely implemented choices. It sets a new standard for story-driven adventure games that can be seen as literature.
The Red Strings Club is a perfect example of how to create a sublime and intrinsic moral debate within a deep story and a great and well developed world. A masterpiece of graphic adventures, absolutely recommendable for those who are fans of the genre and for those who aren’t.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 152 User Ratings
7.6
71% Positive
108 Ratings
108 Ratings
16% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
13% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 152 User Ratings
7.6
71% Positive
108 Ratings
108 Ratings
16% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
13% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
The underwhelming mouse-based elements are frustrating because they’re so unnecessary when compared to the interesting stuff going on with the characters and concepts. When it acts more like a visual novel, The Red Strings Club work crackles with lively ideas and compelling characters. Had it focused on that and pared away the irrelevancies, The Red Strings Club would be the amazing experience that it almost was.
The Red Strings Club in an excellent story-driven game that offers a beautiful pixel design and a very interesting narrative gameplay.
Despite some poor controls for minigames, The Red Strings Club conceptually flourishes, with fascinating subject matter, well-written characters, and unique approaches to gameplay. I enjoyed feeling like a puppeteer as I made others do my bidding by exploiting their emotions or deceiving them through phone calls. However, these actions begged a bigger question: Was I just as bad as the mega corporation? Was I playing god? The Red Strings Club had me pondering these moral questions for days.
Red Strings Club is more of a visual novel than a true adventure game, but its roughly four-hour story will give you some topics for your brain to chew on. The conversational gameplay, not to mention the drink mixing minigame, are a lot of fun.
Sadly, The Red Strings Club will fool some into thinking it follows in the footsteps of classics from WadjetEye Games purely because of its aesthetics. Do not be mistaken, though. This is not a patch on any of that company's releases, nor is it affiliated with it at all. Instead, this takes an intriguing style and theme of the world gone mad for technology, mixes in some extremely random love story between the lead duo of hacker and bartender that bears no relevance to the underlying tale, adds in a heavy dose of some of the most painful attempts at puzzles, and then perfectly tops it all off with an overly wordy script filled with too much padding.
Esse jogo é uma obra de arte, que fazem você pensar, ele aborda questões politicas, filosóficas e sociais, o que pode ser sensível para algumas pessoas
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It's a nice game but I would like to see the disclaimer most of the characters are LGBT))
Pros.:
- Nice story related to dystopian cyberpunk, the problems of the society and the penetration of the NET, implants, etc.
- Music.
- Bartending. Speaking as a fellow bartender.
Cons.:
- Underdevelopment of several characters. They are just dropped at some point.
- The game feels underdeveloped or cut. It reminds me of a feeling when you wanna make a movie but during editing desperately cut content to hit the deadline.
It's a great indie project though with its unique style.
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A nice experience, quite short but intense. A very enjoyable game, with inspired pixel art and beautiful atmospheric music. Well-painted cyberpunk world, great storyline, brilliant dialogues and sometimes a bit tedious but still contextual minigames. Recommended, although a little too dialogues focused.
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this made me wonder if it's just normal for
the spanish elite and corporations to CURSE so much in their offices while talking on the phone.
rude.
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Stop shoving politics down my throat, it's annoying. Seriously and the game's lame.
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Summary The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
Platforms:
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Jan 22, 2018
Developer:
- Deconstructeam
Publisher: Devolver Digital
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