Path's Taken

This is another free one. MC (gender to be determined in the beginning, a noble, best friend to the prince, is balancing the changes in their life while trying to figure out what they want from their future. The conflict is sort of bland, and so are the characters, but the game had a certain amount of charm (named Marco). I kept hoping for something else good until I finished it (it’s really short). The storyline is split in 2, the noble and the commoner route, and then splits once again between two more characters (one male, one female on each side). Doing all storylines didn’t add anything new, and there weren’t any surprises or twists, really. This is the first game I played without CGs, which was strange and cost it even more brownie points. Final note, the background art seemed awful at first, but I wonder if it was intentionally obscured photographs, as an artistic style/easy backdrop creation (since then I’ve seen quite a few other games do this, perhaps it’s the cheap way of getting background images. Equally, the sprites look slightly awkward a lot of the time. Overall definitely not a fan of this one.