Touring Gentle explores a troublesome time within the lives of a number of buddies, letting gamers see that relationship by a number of views.
CONTENT WARNING – DEPRESSION, SUICIDE
Life itself is one thing that has ups and downs. It is a sport that showcases a friendship between 4 people, a few of them having a quarter-life disaster and others simply attempting to be supportive. It’s a story pushed sport that handles matters of suicide and despair, with the suitable warnings as properly.
Within the demo that I performed at Devcom, the pal group was ingesting and having enjoyable in a backyard, being buddies and having conversations about their connections with each other. It’s clear they’ve all identified one another for ages and revel in being round one another. Then, the sport quick forwarded to the long run, when it was made clear that they weren’t going to have the ability to hang around collectively on this greenhouse. That’s when a tragic flip was taken, and immediately one of many buddies had been dedicated to a psychological hospital.
Touring Gentle touches on how problematic locations like psychological hospitals could be by mini-games the place you want to discover and conceal your stuff earlier than folks come or by reduce scenes that present your incapability to be your self. Throughout the sport, you do swap between the characters usually, studying extra about what they’re pondering or what they’re going by. Generally it’s extra direct, whereas different occasions you’ll simply be seeing glimpses and ideas on what this character has on their thoughts.
Conversations taking place between the pal group are additionally attention-grabbing and really properly written with moments of awkwardness in addition to lighthearted banter. What’s attention-grabbing is that there’s a capability to re-wind the dialog and see it from one other pal’s perspective, deciding who ought to in the end be the one driving the dialog based mostly by yourself choices.
From my restricted time with the sport, I really feel Touring Gentle is essential, significant and impactful. I really needed to know extra about these characters and the way they had been going to stay buddies in spite of everything of this.
Touring Gentle is at present in improvement, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to comply with its builders on Instagram.
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